Hawaiian Honeymoon - Day 1 & 2

DAY 1

Time for some honeymoon pictures! For those of you who don't know, we went to Honolulu, Hawaii for our honeymoon. Just getting away for a week was amazing. The best part was we would go to bed at 1pm our time and it was like 10pm in Hawaii then we could sleep for 10 hours and get up at 8am. This gave us the whole day to enjoy being there. First off traveling to Hawaii is terrible. We didn't have trouble with our connecting flight or anything but those are some long plane rides.

This is what Washington looks like from the sky. It was probably the coolest area to see from the air. The clouds were low enough to have some of the mountains showing through.

 

 Curt became a professional flier after this vacation. He had never flown in an airplane before but realized it isn't that big of a deal. I do know he has had his fill of flying for awhile (hopefully not forever :p). Mostly he was just bored because you sit there for 5 to 6 hours in a small space.

 We finally made it! Our travel agent set it up so that we would be greeted by someone and taken to our hotel. They even gave us lei's which smelled good but they were way to strong. It was still a cool way of arriving in Hawaii. Traveling took the entire day for us. We started at 11am Central time and arrived in Hawaii at like 9pm their time (which was 1pm central time). So we really just got situated in our room and fell asleep watchin some TV.

DAY 2

 We stayed at the Hilton Hawaiian Village on Waikiki Beach. After staying there for a week we decided that we were at the best resort on the island. We say that because on the other side of the island the waves were like 25-30 feet (pictures will be posted on a later blog). Then in our area, our resort had everything we could possibly want. We wouldn't have had to leave the resort since it had everything but we wanted to explore.

  

This was our view. We were on the 23rd floor out of 25. It was pretty cool to have this view. The weird thing was you can feel the building sway in the wind.

Okay your probably thinking..."Really a picture of a fish?" BUT this is a koi fish. I had absolutely no idea they were this giant. I just wanted to share our 'what the heck' moment.

BEACH TIME!

We of course had to do the cute name in the sand picture. It's so weird to have a different last name but I love it! 

 So when we got to the hotel (at 9:30pm) our room wasn't ready. How does that happen?! Anyway, we were told we had to wait but we got $100 credit on our account. It ended up we had to wait 5 minutes so it was definitely worth it. Well we spent half of our credit on snorkel stuff. You can see Curt (above) modeling his gear while you can see me below!

 The cool part was we just walked into the ocean and could see tropical fish. We didn't pay to go snorkeling since we could do it for free. Now for some scenic photos from the area on the beach we were at.

Diamond Head

 We also walked around Honolulu during our day there. We didn't go too far because believe it our not about 80% of the people that were visiting were Japanese. You almost felt like you weren't in the USA.

The streets of Honolulu

A really cool tree with extremely long roots.

Our first palm tree picture!

Since this was New Year's Eve we decided to go out to dinner. We went to Tropics Bar & Grill which was located in our resort. It ended up being our absolute favorite place to eat. They had the most amazing ribs.

Look back soon for the next part of our honeymoon!