reflections on hawaii

by the time we got to hawaii we were all touristed out. so while there are plenty of things to see and do both on the main island and all the other littler ones we flexed out. the only energetic thing we did was climb to the top of diamond head crater to see the sunrise one morning. this was because percy was still on some other time zone and woke, ready for the day to begin at 4am.

otherwise we had lazy swims, some slow walks, big meals and happy playing sessions with percy. percy scored herself some new swimmers here too. and her mum got another hat. well, it was hot and sunny and it would have been dangerous for me to be without one! funny story about the hats- yes, paul got one too. everyone we have asked since we arrived home thinks they look like straw versions of american cowboy hats. we think so too. well, in hawaii we had three different people, without them hearing us speak, ask us if we were aussiiieees. very weird. we put it down to the tv program 'mcleods daughters', which is very big overseas. apparently they wear hats like this. i'll have to watch an episode now. i would have assumed they wore akubras.

the hotel in honolulu was very nice. the new otani kamani beach hotel. it's away from the main wakiki tourist area but only 20-30 minutes walk back to there if you want to. we had a fabulous (upgrade) room overlooking the beach and the ocean, with views back to wakiki. the dining "room" was an outdoor terrace covered in an ancient, gnarled tree, facing the ocean. we had good weather every day, except for one spot of rain one evening. it was lovely to sit either on our balcony or the dining terrace and chill. percy gave us a mad dash back to our room one breakfast. this was funny in hind sight... we'd just been seated for breakfast, hadn't even ordered yet when i look down at percy sitting in her stroller to see poo leaking out her pants leg and all over the stroller!! yucko! "hold the table- we'll be back!' paul picked up stroller, baby and all and made a beeline for the lifts. after washing percy and her stroller down we returned sans stroller, plus sling, as if nothing had happened. was that the worst applied nappy ever? i have no idea, i thought it would have been the same as most others. oh well, it's funny to laugh at now.

piccies from honolulu... (coming soon)