We made lays with fresh flowers at the Hilton Hawaiian village. Then we walked around for 2 days with our custom necklaces so we could be official Hawaiians. After that the flowers started to wilt and generally fall apart. Beauty is fleeting. The circle of life. Nature is fragile. Insert catchy idiom here.
We arrived on Saturday and everyone was pretty exhausted from a full day of travel. 7PM Hawaii time felt like midnight. We woke up at 5am Sunday morning and set out into the dark.
After walking down the beach we reached another hotel where tons of tourists were lined up on rocks jetting out into the ocean, where you could see the sun rise over Diamondhead.
Hawaii here we come!
