Aloha

Since I last spoke Eric, John and I drove up to San Marcos (about 30 minutes north of San Diego) to stay the night at Aaron's lavish apartment before flying to Hawaii. Aaron's physical therapy class was having a party that night so we decided to go. Aaron forgot to tell us the party was a prom themed party where everyone was dressed to impress and we showed up looking like a bunch of Canadian lumber jacks. The people were very nice though. I soon realized that Aaron's PT school had a 4 to 1 girls to guys ratio. They were very friendly to say the least.


The next day we woke up drove 2 1/2 hours to LA where we took a 5 hour plane to Honolulu. The funniest thing about this plane ride was that the Pepperdine volleyball team was on board and their massive height created a wall blocking all of the inflight televisions. ha. It was actually a good movie I wanted to see too (Up in The Air) but I just ended up reading. I am onto a new book called Three cups of Tea it is a true story about a rock climber that got lost going up K2 and ended up in a Pakistani village where villagers basically saved his life by nurturing him back to health. In return he came back to build the village a school and since then he has built over 100 schools in different parts of Pakistan and Afganistan.

We got into Honolulu at 930 and got to our hotel at 11pm. Everyone had a queen sized bed to ourselves and there was a living room and kitchen as well. I woke up and red the news paper to find out we had arrived in Waikiki just in time for the Kokua festival. This is a Earth day concert to promote sustainable living that Jack Johnson, Ziggy Marley and Taj Mahal were performing at. We scalped some tickets, went to the beach, met a local named Sean, and at 4:30 we all went to the festival together. Everyone performed great and I was impressed when Ziggy Marley brought out his mother and son, and sang a tribute to his father Bob.

 

The next day we woke up at 530 am to hike Diamond Head mountain. It was an hour hike and ended up having an old army bunker at the top with a great view of Honolulu. After hiking down we had breakfast and took are 1230 flight to Kauai.

 

 

 

Once we got to Kauai we rented a jeep (thank you Mona) and found our lavish resort on our own private beach next to our own private pool. This place is much nicer than the one in Waikiki (not to say the other hotel was bad)!!! We got in the jeep and just cruised for a couple hours through rainforests and spectacular views. Stopped to eat the best Ahi Tuna wrap of my life at Mermaid Cafe. We caught a great sunset at a national park on the western part of the island. I will have to find out the name. Drove back to our place in the convertible jeep and got some groceries for a cookout at our place. Life is great!!!