Hawaii and beyond!

Wednesday: Today was some how eventful and uneventful at the same time. The day started nice and early again. Got breakfast and headed out to Pearl Harbor. Honolulu is a big city and has a great, but confusing, bus system. A bunch of my friends and I headed to Pearl Harbor. When we got there we realized that the tour was not for about two and a half hours. We heard about a big flea market down the road so we went to that. It was huge. It wrapped almost all the way around the Aloha baseball stadium. It had everything from clothes to gadget to snacks to teeth whitening and health remedies. It was pretty good. Of course there was also fresh fruit and nuts there also. After killing time there we headed back to Pearl Harbor to take the tour. The whole place is really cool and obviously full of history. I was glad I got to see it. After Pearl Harbor. Sarah, Tolan, Thomas, and I headed to the North Shore. The North Shore is suppose to have the best beaches and the biggest waves but is across the island. We once again had to get on the bus. The bus ride took quite a while. We ended up getting off at a transition stop and ate some food. Our choices we Pho King (which is pronounced Fa-king), JP Spaghetti, Pizza Hut, and about four weird asian places in a row. We weren’t ready to be boring and go to Pizza hut so we chose a shady Korean eating place (cant really call it a restaurant). It was pretty good after all. Afterward we got back on the bus and head over the the North Shore. It was getting a little chilly but the beaches were beautiful. The waves were crashing on the rocks, the water was all different shades of BLUE not brown like NJ, and the sand was perfect. I took tons of pictures of the different parts of the beach we explored. Sarah and I found a fresh coconut that had fallen off a tree and after about forty minutes of peeling and cracking we finally got it opened and ate it! It was about seven o clock at this point and we had already watched the sun set so we decided it was time to head back into Honolulu. The bus took about an hour to get to us so we hung around playing some games and listening to the Ukelele. We finally got back to Honolulu around 10, got changed, and grabbed some food at a bar and grille in town. It was a very cool day because we spend minimal money and saw some really great sights. I will be posting pictures on facebook soon!

Friday: Yesterday was my last day in Honolulu and it was interesting. I had a semester at sea trip in the morning which means they planned everything and i payed ahead of time. It was a suppose to be a snorkel cruise but it was nothing like that. It was a very cheaply planned adventure. About 70 SAS kids and a group of like 30 japanese people took a boat to the middle of a bay and did all sorts of activities which had potential but ended up really sucking but it is funny to laugh at now. It wasn’t a waste of time because i didnt have anything going on so i didnt mind it. We went snorkeling (once other people got out since there werent enough masks) and saw about 3 different kinds of fish which is obviously not very many. Then, we tried the banana boat ride which is suppose to be fast and awesome but it was rather ssssllooooowwww. When we got out for lunch we expected some hawaiian food or even just some hotdogs and hamburgers and we got like rice with chicken curry and vegetable stew which is not exactly what anyone was craving. there was also a salad with sesame dressing and some pineapple. all that you had to eat with a spoon? and the weather was overcast so we were freezing haha. But, I made some new friends so it was still cool. After that i went to an internet cafe that had free wifi and uploaded some pictures - on facebook. Then, i went on an adventure to find a place to get a japanese rail pass. the pass gives me access to all of the trains and transportation around Japan and is only offered in the United States so i had to get it before i left hawaii. That took up the rest of my day because we had to get back to the boat by 6 and we left hawaii at 8. Not the most exciting day but i'm not complaining. Today i got up feeling a little drowsy and sick so i went to class and then took some meds and took a long enjoyable nap. & now i had to go do some reading and head to my global studies class at 2. 10 days until Japan - hope it goes by fast!!