Warm and Sunny

Thursday, 3rd May


What can I say about the weather to the people back home suffering the cold and rain? It is warm and sunny here!

It was a traumatic start to the day (for one of us, anyway) when we had a different waitress at breakfast and she didn’t know our usual order. Someone ended up with scrambled eggs instead of medium over easy! Scrambled eggs here look like eggs broken into a frying pan and stirred – not at all light and fluffy.

Following breakfast, it was a constitutional walk along the beach. Cat became very excited at the sight of so much sand! The quality of the sand seems to depend on the quality of the hotel it is in front of – the Royal Hawaiian had the smoothest and cleanest! It didn’t take Cat long to jump the chain and become ensconced on a sun lounge at the Royal Hawaiian (or Pink Palace, as it is also known), despite all the signs saying no admittance. We strolled slowly past the people having breakfast on the terrace at the Halekalani (where I would REALLY like to be staying!!!), just so they would be able to see what the “normal” people looked like.

After this, we decided to check out the Ala Moana Shopping Centre – the third largest in the US. Walked about a lot, looked a lot but didn’t buy a lot. There are some very high end shops in the centre and none of them seemed to have any customers, just security guards at the doors.

I have included a few more photos from the “Missouri.”