Island Hostel Waikiki Beach Honolulu

... to go to the cinema, but because of the incident with the jeep that had to be put on hold for another day. We headed down the coast to find dinner - quite a nice restaurant called Outback. A chain restaurant but great food and a great waitress who knew how to look after tired children.

Afterwards we drove back to the hotel with two very exhausted children, luckily we got a lift back to the room by golf buggy, otherwise we would still be walking there now!

... glauben, wenn ichs nicht selbst **leben wu**de!!

Wir fahren relativ frueh wied** ins Hostel zurueck, damit Nickie und ich noch rechtzeitig uns**e Sachen packen koennen, weil fu** uns heute d** letzte Tag auf Oaho ist. Eigentlich wollten wir auch abends noch richtig schoen essen gehen, was wir ab** dank uns**es Heisshung**s zu Gunsten des Goldenen M kippen...

Nach dem Packen laufen wir also nur noch kurz ueb**s Aloha Festival, sowas wie ...

... stores. It was pretty good value for clothes, cosmetics, perfume, cologne etc.

They told me before we went that there was an ABC Store on every corner and it's actually almost true! - in Waikiki I reckon you are never more than 100 yards/metres at the very most from one. These are very handy for beer and wine and also sell grocery items, T-Shirts, souvenirs etc. Not as cheap as ...

... decided that riding is Amos's van has probably been one of
the best parts of camp. Partly because he drives like he's still in
Kenya and you don't have to be in the van getting lost behind him, and
mostly because of his awesome African music that we jam out to! He likes to tell us his African stories and he's big on getting the most out of our experience here on Hawaii. He has planned a lot of fun outings for all of us to do together during the summer, like camping out one night ...

... a cemetary and all are asked to keep quiet out of respect (of course there are a few yahoo tourists with no class). The experience is very moving and there were many people in our group who shed a few tears..... Unfortunately, loss of life in military action is something still very real to most Americans. After the Arizona, we visited two other Pearl Harbor attractions: the USS Bowfin submarine and ...

... the airport I was greeted by everyone saying "ALOHA" everyone was friendly and I was very excited after so many year of dreaming about going to America to have finally stepped foot on the USA ground and have the USA stamp in my passport




I found the bus stop which took me to my hostel that I was staying at I checked in to ...

This morning Meghan and I were up early (again) so we went and enjoyed breakfast at Lulu's surf club before she headed off to her conference at the convention center. Thankfully she was able to get out at noon so we went and toured Pearl Harbor and ...

... is Batista's. There are also a few restaurants inside the Marketplace which are not part of the food court, and one is not to be missed. This would be Hank's Haute Dogs (see review later in this blog). After spending some time at the International Marketplace, we decided to head back outside onto the street (Kalakaua Ave.) which is a main thoroughfare through the Waikiki Beach area and watch some of the street ...

... last person that we asked said there's a waterfall. We're not really interested because we already saw a lot of waterfalls in Maui so we turned back. We went to Kualoa Regional Park to take a picture of the Chinaman Hat. The park has long, grassy lawn and the white-sand beach was so inviting. If I did not hold on to DD2 she would have run towards the beach. There were people having picnic. The park was not crowded. Walking back to the car, I was awed by the Koolau Mountain Range ...