Counting the Hours

Today is our LAST official day in Waikiki - at least the last 'holiday-like' full day - as tomorrow evening we head home. We have to check out by noon and then we are 'wanderers' in this paradise until 5 pm when the taxi will pick us up and drive us to the airport!

A few days ago we met some people from Victoria who were doing the same thing. They sat at the beach on the bench and just watched as people enjoyed the weather. He was in his long pants and they were 'killing time' people-watching.  I guess we will be doing something similar.

Today, we are still experiencing a lot of trouble with our Internet. Didn't get it last nite or this morning, so we took a long walk down the canal up to ING Direct to use theirs. Before arriving there, we stopped across the street at Cheeseburger Waikiki for their breakfast special. ING didn't open until 8 am so we were killing time. Yes, we were up and out in time to 'sit around' before they opened for business. We checked our messages and then headed back home along the Canal.

We went down to the pool today to get a few extra rays and then I had had enough of them. I can't take the heat like I used to. I guess I have enough tan right now. Not looking forward to the snow and to life in general there right now. However, once you are home, you settle into routine pretty fast.

Speaking of routine, we are doing that just fine here in Waikiki. John said next time we will stay an extra week at least.  That means we may have to go earlier as he needs to grow his beard for the Easter Musical he is in each year. He started 'not shaving' two days ago now so he would have a 'defined' beard when he gets home. He hates the first few days. He is looking pretty 'rugged' right now. This morning he trimmed it so it looks a little better - more 'planned'.

I am sitting in Starbucks in Waikiki listening to their 'easy listening Hawaiian music'. Sitting here with my computer, drinking an iced coffee and looking out onto the street at all the passers-by in bathing suits and sandals, hawaiian shirts and tank tops and the swaying palm trees and hibicus plants now starting to bloom. What in the world would make me want to go back to Edmonton I ask you?

Aloha (for now)!!