22/11/06 Diamond Head and PEARLS

Well, waking up in our air conditioned hotel was great. For me personally, it was great getting up and knowing that we didn't have to pack all our stuff up again for another drive/hotel. California and Vegas was fantastic don't get me wrong, but it was exhausting sometimes. Anyway, needless to say we had a lie in. I think we had a lie in 'cause even at the date of this post i can't remember actually getting up before 10. ;)

We pretty much headed straight for Waikiki beach for a sit down, read, relax, and a bit of a sun bathe. Well, that's pretty what should of happened. Instead, i was trying to relax, get into my book and Andrea was pecking my head. The most common "pecks" were...

• Have you seen the state of her?
• Look at the size of that...
• What has she got on...
• What are we doing now?
• Simon...?

As you can see Andrea's brain was still in California. :) We weren't on the beach long and decided to do a bit of shopping. They have these cool chain of shops around here and on the west coast called The Pearl Factory. The difference is, you get the pearl out of the oyster and then they set it for you in what ever you want. We decided on a set of earrings for her so went to open two oysters. Andrea first, and she pulls out the most massive pearl out of this little oyster. I felt that she threw down the gauntlet so picked my oyster and got it opened and there was a pearl inside that was just as big but metallic in colour. The chap behind the desk gave me a hi 5 and said that that was a pretty rare one and was worth around $300 :) Andrea loves her new earrings. I'm hoping that she doesn't get too attached though as eBay beckons ;)

Whilst shopping, one thing we notice was just how hot the sun is here. Due to the humidity, standing still will cause you to burst into a sweat pretty quickly. Stranger still was the fact that the temperature in the shade was really cool. Quite a difference really between the two.

For our evening dinner we went down a back street to this dingy Korean restaurant that served the most amazing food. We weren't quite sure what we were eating but it was pretty tasty. After that we went to the big Kahuna bar for a drink and there was a live band that was alright, but it was all in preparation for the Thanksgiving countdown :)