Even though our room is small and noisy I am managing to sleep quite late for me. This morning I awoke at 7:30, Lance is an early riser and wakes much earlier. He quietly gets his iPad out and tries not to move around or make any noise so that I can sleep. That is how small our room is!
Today was another shopping day but this time at the Waikele Outlet mall. We hadn’t worked out how to get there and tried to check Uber prices. They started at $86 and went down to $38 which is not too bad for an hour’s drive. So we went down to the lobby before we ordered it. As Lance was checking the price again he heard a guy come in to pick up some people who were going to Pearl Harbour and Waikele Outlet centre. So he moggied in on the ride even though we hadn’t booked and we paid $18 each for the ride. So for the second time in two days we were in the Pearl Harbour car park, but quickly moved on to the mall.
There are not a lot of food places there and we hadn’t had any breakfast but we managed to find something reasonably healthy and not fried before setting off on a shopping extravaganza! Lance did as well as me in the shopping department and managed to go the distance without having to leave early. One of our last stores was Tommy Bahama which had things for both of us, so we shared a large changing room. I tried on a dress that had small splits up the side and said to Lance "What do you think?" "No", he answered, "I don’t like it."
"What? I really like it." Said I.
"I don’t like how it has two different levels of hem" Lance replied.
I had accidentally caught the back of the dress in my undies and he thought that it was how the dress was made. Well we screamed with laughter, we had to hold our hands over mouths so we were’t too raucous. Anyway, I got the dress, but will be very careful when wearing it not to catch the back in my undies.
As we were leaving the mall I spotted a whole pile of shops in the distance that I hadn’t seen. "Oh, they are just furniture shops", Lance said. Nice ploy, husbands unite on that one.
Our timing was perfect for the shuttle bus home and once we were settled I took out my travel hand sanitiser that is shaped like a credit card. As I squeezed the top it shot out of my hands and flew through the gap in the seat and onto the man’s lap behind us. As I write this Lance has had to come out of the bathroom to see if I am alright as I have tears of laughter running down my face once again and am wheezing like an old boiler.
Then the young man in front of us who had a particularly long neck and a round balding head started to nod off. He was such a bobble head that it was like his head was made of rubber. At one point I thought that he might do a sideways head butt onto his wife (she was sleeping too). Backwards and forwards, left and right. In the end I had to look out of the window with my hand up so that I couldn’t see his bendy neck waggling his head around. And so that I could stop giggling.
A hint pertaining to shopping when overseas that I will share with you is that I take every label, tag and receipt and throw them out when I get home. With this amount of shopping all of that paper can add up and it could be the difference between excess baggage or not!
Today being New Years Eve we had previously looked at some options but had found none that suited. Fortune works in a funny way because when we arrived in Hawaii some friends that we know through Dillon messaged us to say that they were here for New Years Eve and would we like to meet up.
And that’s haw we ended up with Kelly and Dianna and their friends Rob and Kirsty in the Buho Cocina y Cantina for New Year’s Eve. We had a primo spot on the balcony and enjoyed a great Mexican meal. We decided that we would stay there for the evening as the beach would be packed and we were very happy where we were. At about 8:30 our waiter came to let us know that there was a NYE function and if we wanted to stay we would have to pay $50 each and buy a bottle of something for $150 (remember we are talking US dollars here). We asked him to give us more details and he came back and said that actually the $50 fee was if you booked online and we would have to pay $80 each! Lance said to him that he need to go and talk to his boss about some sort of deal because we were not going to pay $80 each. (we had already collectively agreed to the $50 per head charge to stay). The boss comes over and said we can stay for free as long as we don’t leave and come back, and he talked about the $150 bottle fee. He said that we had to buy bottle of something like Moët or tequila for $150 if we were at a table and that we couldn’t stay at this table and all the tables were booked. If he got a cancellation he would get us a table. So long story short, we stayed for free, with no table but still had seats, drank reasonably priced alcohol from the bar and enjoyed the Latino band. It was a great night, we could see a little bit if the fireworks, but were told later that the beach was mayhem and a good place not to be.
Happy New Year! A little later than most of our friends!
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