Last night, before the Duncans flew home, we managed to take a photo of us all beside the Hawaii Five-O poster that we happened across in the lobby. Apparently some of the original series - which has provided the theme tune for our holiday - was filmed in this very hotel! On the subject of tunes, as they were about to get into the taxi, everyone gathered up and sang me Happy Birthday - it was so lovely, but I managed to only cry a little bit.
I can’t believe that it has been our last full day on
holiday. Dan flies out in the morning to
San Francisco and Brett and I are off home tomorrow night.
Today has been another great day though, although we have
missed spending it with everyone else.
This morning we headed off the the Moana Surfrider for High Tea –
although we had it for lunch. The
restaurant has been restored from the original hotel in Waikiki and there is a
150 year old banyan tree in the courtyard that must have seen some stuff! Sitting on the veranda, having delicious
dainties and tea (along with a glass of champers of course darling – if you are
going to do something, do it right huh) was a lovely treat.
After lunch we wandered through a couple of local galleries,
picked up a turtle bead for my bracelet and wandered back down Waikiki to ‘our’
end of the beach. It was crazy on the
beach at the Waikiki end, I’m so pleased we have been away from that hustle and
bustle to a large degree. Not today
though, there was a dragon boat event that finished at the lagoon and an
insurance company conference with 5000 people at the Hilton. We were going to have a maitai at happy hour
at the bar, but decided it was too buzzy for our relaxed state of mind.
Instead, we had one last swim at the beach then headed up to
shower and do laundry. Just so our last
night wasn’t completely taken up by doing practical things, we decided to go to
Bubba Gumps for a farewell dinner. Oh,
my, goodness! I had shrimp stuffed with
crab and some morsels called Hush Pups which were shrimp, fish and corn made
into a nugget. It was Fab U Lous! Or it could have been just regular yummy made
fabulous by the maitai, the Georgia ‘tea’ and the mojito. We wanted the glasses they were served in so
had to keep drinking – although we found out later we could have just bought
the glasses JIt’s official, we all love Hawaii. It’s been a great birthday trip – the big things and the little things. Back to work we go to save up to come back again.
