Wandering Waikiki

Today we started out to go to Pearl Harbour by bus, until we found out it was a two hour trip on the city bus. Plus it was getting fairly late in the morning, and apparently the later you go, the more lineups there are. So we booked a package tour for tomorrow morning at 6:00 AM. Pretty good deal too. It gives us transportation to Pearl, boat cruise to the Arizona, and a tour of the USS Missouri, where World War II was officially ended. The battleship Missouri had been decommissioned and then was refitted and put back in service for the first Gulf War and then retired to Pearl.

While we were wandering the streets, I had to admit that even I got taken in by one of the street vendors, although I didn’t know he was at the time. He was walking down the sidewalk with a Cockatoo and a Parrot in either hand. He stopped to let Renee hold one while I took pictures and then offered to let me hold the other while he took a photo of us. Then charged us $10 for it. Oh well, it was an experience and the photo looks good.

We bought some snacks and things to keep in the room, and some essentials for the fridge, like Corona and limes, bottled water and Powerade. A funny and flattering incident occurred today while buying the beer. I got carded (asked for ID) to buy the beer. Now granted, the poster said that they card anyone who appears to be under the age of thirty. Still very flattering since I am almost 51 and have retired from policing. She can ask me for ID anytime. We even got the request on video.

After doing so, we quickly discovered that we were without a bottle opener, so it was over to the souvenier shop where Renee bought a pineapple shaped bottle opener. It was a lifesaver, now we can have our properly chilled Coronas while sitting on the lanai (Hawaiian for porch), well, at least we could, if we weren’t on the 10^th floor and I wasn’t scared to death of heights.

Back in the hotel for a short rest and then maybe down to the beach for a swim.