Woke up. Got out of bed. Dragged a comb… Hey, not across MY head. Ate some quick food. Down to the  beach to boogie board. Lay in the sun.

Then off to a 90 minute cateraman cruise on the Mai-Tai for $36 total. If you call in with a coupon from one of the may activity books all over in advance and you get $5 off per person. Great ride, very fun, great crew, and if you do drink, they have drinks for $2 which is notedly a good deal.

If you don’t drink, $2 water or OJ is not so great. No drinking at all is a great price and allows you to take more photos and enjoy the view without interruption. We didn’t see any whales, but what a beautiful day, beautiful views, and it was just incredibly relaxing. Gigorgious!

We had early dinner at the Nakamura Noodle Saimen place, per tradition. It was very good as usual for about $12 each, but it really put in perspective how really good the little noodle place in Lihue was. It was comparitively awesome! And their most expensive shrimp tempura saimen was only $6! They were not too happy about us continually asking and calling about fried noodles though! “No fried noodles today!” Click… Bzzzzzzzzz.. “Um… Okay, Thanks. Hey! They hung up on me!”

Sunset at Waikiki, lots of photos. Again no torchlighting on Monday. Oh well. A bit of All-Blocks-Covered (ABC) shopping, elsewhere and then back to hotel where they were holding our bags, taxi was already arranged and loaded when we got there. Jumped in and we were off to the airport. We were immediately greeted by a sky cap. For six bucks gratuity, he got us checked in, took our bags through agriculture and to security for us and us off to our gate in about 360 seconds. That took so little time, we just plopped down for a about an hour before we even went through security. I forget how quickly you get done if you use a skycap.

The flight back was uneventful, just like it should be. We got good exit row seats with plenty of room for our legs and both fell asleep shortly after takeoff. We both actually slept most of the trip. Regardless, we were both still a bit groggy in Salt Lake trying to get our bags and find the car….

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