Day 30.1 - Raring to go....

After a great nights sleep we woke around 5am raring to go. Although at that time of the morning there is no where to 'rare' to, so we all picked up our laptops and had our heads buried in them.

Somewhere between 7 and 7.30am as daylight broke we headed downstairs to the beach to dip our toes in the ocean.  Even at this time of the morning there were some wonderful sights that were just begging to be shared.

This elderly couple had their tanning plot mapped out before sunrise.  I never saw the old dear up close, but old mate was like boot leather. Tanned to the hilt.

This enthusiastic lifeguard didn't flinch one bit at us and was happy as Larry reading his newspaper.

 

 

Less than an hour later he had finished his newspaper and was now nodding off.

Then there is the next 'old mate', must have lost his room key so slept on the beach instead, although some how I think he may live on the beach?

This is my favourite. Judging by the shape of the hat, I think it's Darth Vaders sister.

  

For as long as we watched this other lifeguard, he had his back to the ocean the whole time, not once did he check to see what was going on out there. Not only could he not see what was going, but he also couldn't hear as he was wearing earphones listening to some beats.  I think he needs to go back to lifeguard school for a refresher and learn the basics such as: Face the water

 



These are some of the beautiful morning views from Waikiki Beach

 

 

After our morning beach walk, went to the infamous Dukes for breakfast, then we headed back to our room to plan our assault on Honolulu.  After some research and investigating we managed to put a plan together.  By now it's around 11am and its decided we go to Ala Moana shopping centre for a little more retail therapy.  To get there we caught the super cool 'Honolulu Trolly' (an open aired bus type thing) and our driver was a real card, he was cracking himself up over his PA, but mostly he was cracking us up too.  We had a bus driver and a bit of a comedy show all rolled into one all for $2, true value.

So we traipsed the shops and even thought a pedi or a massage would be a great idea, so all's good, we make our booking for an hour or so away and then she says "oh sorry ladies, I was looking at the wrong day" so we started all over again. Finally she had us all booked in, we'd  just walked out the door and then she calls us back in "oh sorry, there isn't enough time for when I've booked you".  At this point we were thinking "oh sorry, we can't cope with your incompetence" so we cancelled everything and told her not to bother.  They lost out on some business and we lost out on some pampering, but we were far more satisfied telling that lady to cancel everything.