ALOHA!

Jo and Kath do Hawaii (Jan 15 - Jan 19 2004) 

It may have goten cancelled the first time but Kath and I picked ourselves from the "I've been burnt with a 20% cancellation fee" heap and rebooked to go to HAWAII! and dammit it was worth the extra money! 

The sun setting on Wakiki Beach on our first day....ahhhhh.

The USSA Arizona Memorial

Hanauma Bay, by far the best location on our Island tour

I finally found my pineapple plantation! Too bad it was the most commercial one...

The is the closest it got to surfing...this is me sandsurfing at the beach where they hold "Pipeline"

Kath and I on Wakiki beach with our newly purchased sarongs...and check out that guy in the background!

Our last night in Hawaii and we wanted to experience a Hawaiian "Luau". I would have to say the operator at the tour desk misled us when she said "You guys are going to have the best time, it's by the beach, it's an all-you-can-eat Hawaiian dinner, you get 3 free drinks, you can dance, there's a lot of young good looking men...". Kath and I thought "Oh yeh, last night in Hawaii, no better way than to party" so we board the bus to Germaines and are met with 25 pairs of "elderly" American tourist....hrmmmm....

Kath:  So Jo, How many people can you count without grey hair?"

Jo: 2 - you and me

End of story.

Ok well it wasn't all that bad, there was a great stage show, we got up and did the hula dance on stage and ate ourselves silly with roasted pig. But on the bus back when that guide pulled out his ukalele and started singing classic oldies?....

Tour Guide: Girls...down the back...Jolene? Do you have a request?

(Silence)

Tour Guide: Oh they're asleep

Jo wakes up.

End of story again.

In Japan, it's all about vending machines and I couldn't help posing for a photo when I saw a vending, it's so..."Hawaiian", even the telephone box too!

And while in US territory, what better way than to wind down with a "BUD" and then turn red in the face (ahhh...bless my low alcohol tolerance...)

Hey! We even got tattoo's in Hawaii! I got #2 on the foot and Kath got her very first tattoo on her back. The tattooist will definitely remember Kath as her first customer to faint before even putting 'pen to paper' hehhe