21 February 2005
Our first post !
Yay, our holiday is off to a brilliant start! We have just had a fabulous week in Waikiki on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. But let me go back a bit and fill you in...
We left Perth on Valentines Day at 6:45 in the evening on a six hour flight and arrived twelve hours later in Auckland, New Zealand. Needless to say we were both pretty tired because for us it was about one in the morning and neither of us got much sleep on the plane (uncomfortable seats and movies on the screen all night).
We met up with Eloise Healey and Cherly Hayes (good friends from Darwin High School) for breakfast in Auckland. It was very cool to be sitting with two good friends in a foreign city (yes, NZ counts as foreign) eating and catching up. We hadn't seen either of them since our wedding in July so it was nice to just sit and chat.
Our flight to Hawaii that afternoon was better - we were able to get seats with a bit more leg room and both of us slept quite well. We arrived late on Monday night (the night before we left) and had to take a dodgy yet expensive room in a hotel. Our choices were severly diminished by the fact that the whole town is full because of a Pro Bowl football game that was on the day before we arrived. Nevertheless we slept well.
Tuesday morning we donned our packs and walked to the other end of Waikiki to a hostel which turned out to be a god-send. The Polynesial Hostel is great.
Now, before we bore you too much and you stop reading, here comes a brief outline of the things we have done in the last six days...
We have swum in beautful clear water, sun-bathed on wonderful warm sands, we climbed up to Diamond Head (an extinct volcano crater) for sunrise, we went on a sunset sail in the bay off Waikiki, we took a tour with the hostel up to the North Shore where we were able to see (and feed) sea turtles up close (very, very cool) go to a big surfing beach and swim at Waimea. We went to Pearl harbour and saw the USS Arizona memorial. We have been into about 1000 ABC stores (convenience stores more prolific than braidsin Bali or sand in the Sahara). We have spent some time working on our tans because we know that it will be some time before we see the sun again.... All in all it has been a wonderful relaxing week, which is how we had hoped to spend our honeymoon!
We plan to come back here when we have some more time to get to the other islands... It is really beautiful... Chris is going to try and attach a link to some photos (fingers crossed) so you can see!!
Tonight (Sunday 20th Feb) we fly to San Francisco for four nights and hopefully a trip to Alcatraz. We will update again soon, so be sure to check when you get a chance! Be safe! We are having a ball!!
Photos here...I hope
We left Perth on Valentines Day at 6:45 in the evening on a six hour flight and arrived twelve hours later in Auckland, New Zealand. Needless to say we were both pretty tired because for us it was about one in the morning and neither of us got much sleep on the plane (uncomfortable seats and movies on the screen all night).
We met up with Eloise Healey and Cherly Hayes (good friends from Darwin High School) for breakfast in Auckland. It was very cool to be sitting with two good friends in a foreign city (yes, NZ counts as foreign) eating and catching up. We hadn't seen either of them since our wedding in July so it was nice to just sit and chat.
Our flight to Hawaii that afternoon was better - we were able to get seats with a bit more leg room and both of us slept quite well. We arrived late on Monday night (the night before we left) and had to take a dodgy yet expensive room in a hotel. Our choices were severly diminished by the fact that the whole town is full because of a Pro Bowl football game that was on the day before we arrived. Nevertheless we slept well.
Tuesday morning we donned our packs and walked to the other end of Waikiki to a hostel which turned out to be a god-send. The Polynesial Hostel is great.
Now, before we bore you too much and you stop reading, here comes a brief outline of the things we have done in the last six days...
We have swum in beautful clear water, sun-bathed on wonderful warm sands, we climbed up to Diamond Head (an extinct volcano crater) for sunrise, we went on a sunset sail in the bay off Waikiki, we took a tour with the hostel up to the North Shore where we were able to see (and feed) sea turtles up close (very, very cool) go to a big surfing beach and swim at Waimea. We went to Pearl harbour and saw the USS Arizona memorial. We have been into about 1000 ABC stores (convenience stores more prolific than braidsin Bali or sand in the Sahara). We have spent some time working on our tans because we know that it will be some time before we see the sun again.... All in all it has been a wonderful relaxing week, which is how we had hoped to spend our honeymoon!
We plan to come back here when we have some more time to get to the other islands... It is really beautiful... Chris is going to try and attach a link to some photos (fingers crossed) so you can see!!
Tonight (Sunday 20th Feb) we fly to San Francisco for four nights and hopefully a trip to Alcatraz. We will update again soon, so be sure to check when you get a chance! Be safe! We are having a ball!!
Photos here...I hope
# posted by Elke & Chris @ 3:47 am 
