farewell to the beautiiful island…we will be back again!

Last day on the island, we checked out from the hotel at around 9 am before heading for breakfast. After breakfast, we loaded our luggage in the car and the rest of the morning was spent strolling and relaxing on the beach. We stayed along Waikiki beach, but ironically, we spent the least time on this beach. For the past few days, we have been traveling around the island exploring different beaches and were so intimidated by the strong waves and big surf we saw in almost all the beaches we visited. It was only now that we realised that Waikiki beach has the most gentle wave and surf compared to the other coastal beaches and we could have tried surfing here instead!
Unfortunately time was running late as we need to be at the airport at around1 pm to catch the 3 pm flight, so all we did for the next hour or so was to sit at the jetty, glued to the surfers in the water, drooling and wishing that we could join in. Soon it was time to leave and I am quite sure we will be back to this beautiful place again. A week at the beach learning how to surf and hiking up the active volcano to catch some lava flow are reasons good enough. Maybe then, we should just leave Mal with the care of someone back home while we fly here, just the 2 of us! It will probably be our 1st holiday, since Mal was born, traveling without him! Will we really do that??? I guess no harm dreaming, it’s free.

we saw this lady offering her parrots to passerby for photo shoots…

they were sooooo cute! so we requested to take some pics with her parrots too, thinking that she was doing out of good will….

we were wrong, she rejected our 5 bucks and charged us 10 bucks for all pics! NO FREE LUCNH in this world…esp not in Hawaii

Mal at the jettybody surfers in action, this guy is probably a local, he cycled to the jetty in an old bike, parked his bike, walked to the edge and jumped right into the water, when the warning sign ‘No Jumping’ was right next to it! All he used to help him surf, was something that looks like a web feet that he wore on one of his hands and a pair of fins and Voila!

surf camp for Mal ??

and finally a video to wrap up the whole trip…it’s a simple video but took me hours and hours to get it works, cos both my computer and laptop were dying on me. My ‘never say die’ attitude finally paid off this evening while I was cooking and trying to compile the video at the same time. I was elated, exultant, exhilarated, euphoric! It’s unbelievable how much joy and frustration this video has brought me! I seriously need a new desktop, new laptop, bigger RAM, bigger disk space, before I lose my mind! Meanwhile, enjoy….PHEW!