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| Pearl Harbor Memorial - December 30 |
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| Pearl Harbor Sculpture |
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| Battleship Missouri |
We checked out of the hotel at 7:45 am and headed to the Pearl Harbor Monument for the third time...hoping to finally see it after three attempts. Hopefully, third time a charm - or so they say. Once we arrived it started to drizzle and we were grabbing for our "valuables" to store in the locker when Hudson said "Where is my wallet". Oh, no!! We searched the car as best we could in the rain and finally sent Annie, Sam and Paulie on their way to the Memorial. Hudson and I soared back down the H1 to our hotel in hopes of finding it in our room, tucked between something. No luck. We had searched the entire car, the hotel room, unpacked all of his belongings and finally concluded that his wallet and all of his traveling money was gone. We tried to reconstruct the last time he had it and Voila...his black wallet appeared wedged between the black seats. What a lucky day. We put the peddle to the metal and headed back down the highway in perfect time to pick up the others and get to the airport for our flight to Kona.
We returned our rental car, tried our best to convince the airport control freaks that "yes, our huge luggage was indeed carry on size" and waited less than an hour for our commuter flight to Kona. It was a great and short flight. Once we arrived, we waited for our appointed taxi to take us to our "off site" rental car location. We got our car and lunch all at the same time. A few left turns later, we were in the quaint waterfront town of Kona. Our condo is top notch and the kids are thrilled at our new digs. Once they realized we had WiFi, everyone was immediately plugged in.....time for an intervention....(Onlinus interruptus) courtesy of mom. We ventured into town and walked through a great farmer's market. Not your everyday fare here- avocados, pineapples, macadamia nuts, Kona coffee! We have arrived! We plucked the ripest of the ripe and sauntered among the stalls until closing time. Stopped by a grocery store to get ready for our first home cooked meal in about week. We got a quite a bit of sticker shock at the checkout.....I think we may be going on the "soon to be popular Kona diet"....who can afford to be fat at these prices??? We returned to Skype whomever we could find and prepare a lovely, low-key dinner.
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