Well, just woke up for my first day in Waikiki. We are staying in the Embassy Suites, which is super nice. There was an open bar thing last night, so I got to try a number of drinks, and then we had some basic food at this place called the shack. Now I am just chilling here in the morning waiting to shower and watching some football on TV. We flew in here yesterday around 3 and got settled in around 5. The big island was nice. Not very accessible, but very nice. I ended up staying around the condo most of the time. We explored Kona on Friday but I couldn’t find anything I really wanted to get. I hopefully will find some things around here. We went to a lua’u for Christmas dinner, it was decent. Some of the food kind of upset my stomach some. The highlight of the whole thing was the fire dance at the end of the night. It was pretty impressive. He really did all sorts of things that I hadn’t seen before, like lighting the other end with his tongue (he placed the flame on his tongue and quickly lit the other end) or holding the pole with his knee (in the joint behind the knee).
We will be heading out of here on New Year’s Eve, so I get to celebrate the ‘09 New Year, kind of sad… I think I will hit 2009 at some random point across the mainland. Maybe I will get a window, doubtful though… Well I better shower and get breakfast.