This vacation has been great- not necessarily what we thought it would be initially. I think we both had the plans that we would spend each day poolside enjoying the warmth of the sun and then spend each evening dancing the night away at Nashville Waikiki. Not a bad plan and it does combine the best of our two favorite vacation past times. But as we often find out, things don't always go the way we plan them to go. And honestly, that is really OK.
Day one, hubby's sunscreen didn't do its job- I think we have determined that it was his older bottle of sunscreen and was probably expired- he has two newer bottles that expire in 2015- so we're guessing they have a shelf life of 2 years and his first bottle was definitely older than that. As a result, day two by the pool could not happen and day three was a partial day in the sun and then we moved to an area where he could be in the shade and I still had sun. It worked and it's all good. Tomorrow is day four and we have our all day tour to Pearl Harbor- well not all day, but 7am until 2pm roughly. We might even then do a segway tour in the late afternoon. I'm a bit nervous about doing this because I am not that coordinated- but we'll see. I would like to try it!
Yesterday we met another Les Mills instructor for lunch with his wife- completely impromptu thanks to Facebook and seeing who else is on Oahu at the same time. Butch was part of my AIM 1 training in Vegas, so it was nice to meet up for lunch with his wife. We had a lovely time at Duke's on the beach and finished off the fabulous meal with a shared Hula Pie. Then last night we met up with one of my Mercy classmates, Lani and her husband Joey at the Moana Surfrider's Beach Bar and had a very nice visit. It just amazes me at how you can meet up with someone you spent 4 years of High School with- you were friendly to each other over those 4 years, but weren't necessarily "friends"...however, now 30 years later we are all the same- we are all equals- we have all lived life and have our stories, our battles and our battle scars of life. We have all had life events impact us for good and for bad and it's all of those experience that bring us all together. I love it! It was a lovely night.
We have attempted to go dancing twice at Nashville Waikiki and both nights were bust. The first night we did get some dancing in and we were the only ones dancing for a bit and seems that some locals had issues with us being the spotlight- it got oddly competitive and uncomfortable, so we left. Last night, the place was just entirely too redneck and not very dance friendly- the floor is small to begin with and some locals were dancing wrecklessly. Its ok...we left and came back to the hotel. We didn't even try tonight since we have an early morning tomorrow.
One more full day and one more night, then it's home and 56 days until the next vacation...a cruise which is our most favorite type of vacation!! Can't wait!
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