Wandering Waikiki Part 2

After our rest and a Corona in the room, we headed over to Tony Roma’s for a big beef rib feast. Ribs and a couple of Chi-Chi’s later, our second funny incident of the day occurred. I had given instructions to my kids and other family members back home, that in an emergency, they could reach me on my cell phone. But, it had to be a dire emergency, like someone dying.

So here we are eating dinner, when sure enough my cell phone rings. Scared hell out of me, especially since it was on call display as a “blocked” number. I answered the phone expecting to hear the worst. However, it was my former Sergeant, Gord Haddon calling to get together for coffee. I explained I would like to, but that I was in Honolulu at Tony Roma’s. Gord didn’t believe me. He said, Tony Roma’s that’s just down on Commercial Drive, how about if I meet you there.

I couldn’t convince him that I was sitting in Hawaii because as he said, I called you on your cell, it shouldn’t work. It does though, with roaming built in. Anyway, we took a series of photos, to prove where we were. One in the restaurant holding up a package with a US Flag on it, another standing beside a Honolulu Patrol car and still another in front of the Honolulu Police Station, Waikiki sub-station.

After getting the photos, we wandered along the beach and caught some street entertainers. One guy all dressed in gold and painted the same color, sitting looking like a statue, that is until he moved and scared a little girl.

We saw a hula show on the beach and then watched the Hari-Krishnas dancing down the street. After that we headed back to the hotel to get some rest. We walked just under 11 kilometres today. Really early 5 o’clock AM wakeup tomorrow for our tour of Pearl Harbour.