Jet lagged

It started like a normal trip to the airport. Patiently playing the hurry up and wait game from one line to the next. Passing time with people watching, I didn't know parents are still utilizing the child on a leash method. It seems brilliant yet wrong at the same time. After the time passed our plane arived and it was our boarding call. The first indication that this was going to be no ordinary flight was when we lined up for boarding in 3 seperate rows and realized there were 2 boarding doors each with it's own "hamster tunnel" into the plane. Thanks very much to Jeff's sister Jill, we were in the express "hamster tunnel" which lead us right to our first class seats. Little did we know this was only the beginning of the benefits to follow, we of course knew that first class meant bigger seats, free drinks, and a lunch. So when they made the announcement that they were serving food and informed economy class the options were in the back of the inflight magazine with their prices Jeff grabbed the magazine and made his choice. OHH no that food listed in the magazine is only for the economy class. First class gets their choice of steak or pasta, which starts with a heated dish of pecans, a couple small courses before the main course, then ends with a make your own sundae ice cream bar. This entire process felt like dinner and a show watching the flight attendants put everything together. We managed to entertain ourselves for most of the 9 hours by playing games on the Ipad (Kudos to my parents). We did take a break from the games to watch the movie "We bought a zoo" which Jeff pointed out made my eyes "leak" a lot, but I greatly enjoyed the movie. There were a couple of visits to our seat from the snack tray which Jeff took full advantage of. Then when we get into the last hour or so of the flight, what else, but another meal. This time we got a salad and a steak burrito. So now we know why the seats in first class are bigger, because by the time the flight is over you need it.

We arrived into Honolulu to a gloomy day, but it was still 76 degrees and much nicer than most of the year in WI. Leaving the airport we got a view of the neighborhoods we don't want to live in and got our taste of some good ole Honolulu traffic. But as soon as we hopped off of H1 the houses got bigger, the fences smaller and the scenery much better. We headed east through the mountains (yes there are some tunnels that go through them) which were gorgeous mountains, we even saw a waterfall in the distance. Once we got through the mountains we found a rather nice neighborhood and made our way to Saron's house (the B&B we are staying at). Sharon welcomed us in and showed us our room, we chatted for a while and headed out to explore a little bit. We ended up at the local Safeway (grocery store) we had to buy some groceries and thought we would try to get a handle on some price differences. This is when we realized that would be a little hard to do since we don't really know how much things cost back home. The $10 case of soda, deli turkey @ $10/lb, $4 gallon of milk, $3 doz eggs, and the $0.69 ramen noodles all seemed on the high side. Things were definately more expensive but not everything was outrageously so. I did find it rather interesting that grape jelly was $2 cheaper than any other flavor. After we returned to Sharon's to drop off our groceries we decided to take a walk to the beach. Kailua beach (claimed as one of the best beaches in the country) is a very nice beach and we discovered that Kite surfing looks like a lot more fun than real surfing, we were watching these guys jump 15 feet into the air and zooming all over the place all powered by a giant kite. We also saw some kind of large canoes that were paddle racing, they started out on the beach and had to push the big canoes in (amazing race style). We then made our way back to Sharon's to wind down the night.

We tried to stay up as late as possible to acclimate to the new time zone yet by 7PM our eye lids become much to heavy to ignore (midnight WI). Knock Knock... Sharon wanted to ensure our room was well cleaned and thought she may have fogotten to clean the bathroom mirror. Jeff told her it was fine even if she hadn't cleaned it, we weren't worried about it, but that wasn't cutting it for Sharon. In comes Sharon and her 2 dogs through the room into the bathroom on the otherside of our bedroom, and just as eagle eye Sharon had thought it was a little dirty. She got it all shined up and after only a minute or so of asking the dogs to come with her the whole gang exited our room. It may have struck as more odd to be staying at someone else's home except for the fact we had been staying at a long term B&B (my parents) for the last 6 weeks after our house was sold. We never did have a Sally/Taffy visit quite like this at any point while we stayed there.

We tried our best to finish this post on the proper day but we were a little jet lagged so after waking up at 1am and forcing ourselves to stay in bed till 5 here we are at 5:30am finishing it up before our run on the beach. ENJOY!!!!