To be honest, it sounded cool but for some reason I kind of didn’t want
to deal with it. It meant finding a place to stay, figuring out what to do, and
leaving home earlier than I would like to... but, it was the best choice for
multiple reasons, so I went with it.
As
I thought why I was not as excited about it, it kind of perplexed me. It’s
Hawaii for pete’s sake.
I would have to
say a family vaca to Hawaii as a kid was definitely one of the best trips.
We had done plenty of beaches and vacation
spots, but Hawaii was just the best.
But
going solo... I dunno... it just didn’t sound that appealing.
I guess I prefer the mountains... if it was
24 hours in Utah or Colorado in the winter, I would have paid extra to make
that happen!
Nevertheless, the flight was booked... used some points to
book a hotel. Spoiled myself a bit and stayed pretty comfortably near Waikiki
beach.
Once I arrived, I got right to
work.
Grabbed a shuttle to the hotel,
texted my friend who grew up in Honolulu for tips on things to do, she started
texting me place after place – all food. I hit the streets finding the food
joints she suggested. Yum.
Rainbow’s
drive-in, then zippy’s, failed to find the shaved ice place, went back to
rainbow’s for the slush float, wandered back towards the hotel and into the
downtown’ish type of area to the apple store to pick something up, then back to
the hotel. Thought I was going to pass out towards the end of my wandering. A
lot of walking... not enough sleep... tired.
Hawaii reminds me of POGs.
If you don’t know what POGs are – well, they’re out of business now but
it’s a game where you throw an object to flip a stack of milk caps over,
originating in Hawaii actually – the Haleakala dairy farm. POG also stands for Passion, Orange, and
Guava mixed together to make POG juice, also a more Hawaiian flavor (I found
some at the Honolulu airport and drank some!).
It also reminds me of Hawaii because my family went on a family vacation
to Hawaii right before my first ever business trip. Like this time, Hawaii was an added bonus to
a comp’d trip. I’ll explain more some
other time.
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