Our flight was uneventful, all of us managing to catch a few z's. Because Robin still travels on an American passport it meant we flew through immigration and customs... Yay. A quick Taxi drive to the hotel and we were soon having a cup of tea. A cat nap was in order before we hit the town via the bus... Robin has already mentioned that.
For Mum it was a time to revisit places that she had been to on previous trips to Waikiki with dad. Happy memories :) After being fed and watered we headed back to the hotel promising ourselves that we would have that MaiTai tomorrow!
A trip to the airport on Saturday morning before the crowds on our way to the Big Island of Hawaii, Robin has been wanting to take me here for years and years. A lovely short 45 min flight and we touched down on the Big Island. I was left at the terminal while Mum and Robin went and got the hire car, we had pre booked before we left home, a normal size sedan imagine my surprise when they rocked up in a black shiny Jeep and Nanny grinning from ear to ear!... the memory is priceless, the pair of them looked like Jethro and granny Clampit! Bless them!
We drove into Kona and found a nice place to have lunch. The Kona Inn overlooks the ocean, a place where Robin's father had worked as a maintenance man for a while. Mum and I had a pulled-pig sandwich and Robin had a pastrami with about half a kilo of meat on it (as is the American way). We strolled across the lawn to the sea wall: it had been damaged in the Japan Tsunami of last year.
Time to do some shopping before we made our way up to the coffee plantation. We stopped at Safeway, got ourselves a club card which entitled us to many items at half price.... cant imagine Woolies or Coles doing that.... and so off we went with our jeep packed with supplies and of course the ingredients for our MaiTais!
I will close this one for now and let Robin talk some more, also some pictures to be put up.... Aloha! xxxx
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