Day 1: Arrive in Oahu

Early morning (5:15am) for our drive to the airport. Surprisingly little traffic on a Sunday. Made it through check in and security without taking our shoes off, though  Carol did run into a problem with the metal detector. Seems her hat has too many metal beads. Disregard the security guy who kept asking if she had any metal hip implants or a pacemaker. They are able to pinpoint the location of what sets off the detector and he kept saying it was in the "mid-section". Don't know how he figured that since she was wearing her hat but she is kinda short. Sorry, "fun size". Flight was on time and smooth sailing.

Leg from Columbus to Los Angeles

LAX...what can we say! Ten o'clock in the morning and packed, packed, packed. Boarding was a mess, overbooked flight so they were offering cash for seats ($800) and best of all, some smart guy put dry ice in the drain at the back of the cabin. Surprise, that stuff smokes and airplane people don't like to take a plane loaded with people into the air with smoke coming out of anywhere. An hour and a half late, we pushed away from the gate only to sit in line. Image that...sitting in a line on the runway at LAX. Clearly that place is not our cup of tea or any other beverage. We decided not to partake of the proffered mimosas (is it ever too early for some people?) Great lunch of steak, potatoes, cooked spinach, salad and roll. Desert, that pesky thing that needed the aforementioned dry ice which caused all our problems, was Jeni's ice cream. If you haven't been to Ohio in the last 5-6 years, this is a Columbus hometown ice cream. O-H! I-O!

Approaching Oahu

No matter how much one anticipates a vacation in Hawaii, it comes with a butt numbing 6.5 hour flight and nothing to see for basically the whole trip.

Arrival - over 40 minutes to get a car rental. Bob likes the Jeep Patriot. Checked in and headed for Waikiki beach. Of course, by this time it was almost 6pm, sunset well under way. Beautiful.

Waikiki at sunset

Grabbing a bite near the beach and listening to live music. 

 Carol updating the blog before calling it a night