I haven’t blogged in 3 days because we’ve been busy – also I realized after my last post that I had forgotten my CF Card reader at home, so I can’t upload any of the photos I have been taking until I get back to Grapevine.

Yesterday we went on a helicopter ride with the company Blue Hawaiian Helicopter Tours, and that was probably the most fun I have had since we’ve been here.  We flew all over the Kauai Island and saw many waterfalls and canyons on the island.  Our pilot’s name was Dean and he was quite informative of the historic details of the island.

Last night we went to a Luau at Smith’s Tropical Paradise.  They had many varieties of birds and plants at this wildlife preservation location, and they served great food.  At the end of the night, they finished off with a show of Hula dancers from Hawaii with some traditional Chinese, Japanese, Tahitian, Samoan, and New Zea-land dances mixed in.

Today we go to a 1-hour Time Share “information gathering” session where they will try and sell us a time share.  It’s doubtful we will get anything… it is nice here, but the prices on everything around the hotel are so expensive, it almost makes it not worth it.

Sitting by the pool with a Rum and Coke right now. We leave this evening for Kauai where we will spend the rest of our time here. Nice weather outside today, this hotel has open doors in all the hallways and a bar in the lobby with an entire open wall to the pool outside.

It’s 5am here right now, but it is 10am at home.  We went to bed early last night because to us it seemed like midnight when we landed in Honolulu, even though it was only 7pm local time.  We were in bed by 8:30pm and I woke up a few minutes ago because I got plenty of sleep already.  In a couple of hours we leave to go visit Pearl Harbor.  I am looking forward to that itself, just not excited about the crowd that I am sure will be there.  Pictures to come of that tomorrow…