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Holidays in Hawaii (2007.9.22 – 2007.9.26)
Sept 22
It was a flight of NW originally scheduled to take off at 22:40.
When we arrived KIX Kansai International Airport,
it was found at the time of check-in that the time was re-scheduled
to depart “earlier” by 10 minutes.
While we were waiting at the waiting area for the announcement
of commencement of boarding, it was announced all of a sudden
that the flight will get to be delayed because of some trouble needing check-up.
The explanation was full of obscurity and nobody could see
with the announcement what was actually happening – even the person
in charge of the announcement should have been short of the sure
information on the real facts.
Most of the passengers of the night flight looked Japanese – they are
very quiet and well-behaved, although some few people were talking to
the staffs of the airline company revealing strong concerns on the happening.
A long silence was kept between the airline and the passengers.
It was perhaps around 1:00 am that the final announcement of the captain’s
decision to get the A330 fly was done to proceed to let passengers check in.
We were all still very concerned about the safety but we saw nobody drop out.
According to the airline, the model A330 was one of the newest – simply they
paid enough precautions just in case in view of recent air crash or accident
at Pukket, Okinawa and in Brazil. As a result, fortunately nothing happened
on the way and got arrived Honolulu Airport with some 2 hours’ delay.
2nd Day
It was explained that there is a time difference of 19 hours between Japan
and Hawaii. The time we arrived Honolulu was perhaps around 15:00 or
15:30 of the local time. I was just anticipating of some suffering from jet lag
which I heard spoken by someone before but perhaps because of the night
flight – it might have worked good to avoid the jet lag – nothing was suffering
to me. With a small bottle of wine and a canned beer in the aircraft,
I could sleep rather well for some hours during the flight.
But, it was rather surprising that they offer such alcoholic beverages at
5 U.S. dollars per piece. It was a first priced experience as it was my first
flight with a direction toward U.S.A. I asked the local travel agent’s staff
if it’s good to visit to Diamond Head from that time.
He said we can go up to there but cannot enter because they shut up at 17:00.
So, we changed our idea to try visiting Hawaii University at some 2 – 3 km
away and got there by taxi. Just had looked around and found some birds
similar to dove in appearance but perhaps of half of dove in size.
Also found too small birds too much smaller than sparrow.
I could not watch them well because they were quick to go away.
Furthermore, I found the trees similar to that one which appears on the
TV advertisement of Hitachi – “Sono ki nanno ki, kininaru ki” at many places,
but I still do not know what name the tree has. We walked around the Waikiki
area and got into a restaurant filled with local people to try some American
dishes. But, just as I imagined, the beef was not a good one and lobster was
something strange and what was worse, the cooked rice was worst.
It might have been wrong to expect a nice meal at a price of around 25 dollars U.S.
3rd Day
Got up rather early and headed by local bus to Pearl Harbor.
Because we cannot see well, before getting into the bus, asked the bus driver
(woman driver) telling her that we want to go to Pearl Harbor. To our regret,
we couldn’t understand 100% what were spoken but the choice of the bus
seemed right. While on the bus, although we had a simple map in hand,
we could not see how far our destination would be. I asked another person
in the bus, and someone near by kindly answered that it would take another
20 minutes or so to reach our destination.
We didn’t know where our bus was then running so we were apt to get to feel
rather concerned. It was found later that the bus was the one you can go
directly up to the destination, and most of the people in the bus were going to
the same place - Arizona memorial.
Admission was free to see the Arizona Memorial. But, you must leave all your
personal effects outside of the memorial hall. The hall had a free check-room
and handed our baggage. We went through the exhibited articles telling the
miserable story about the people who suffered the attack by Japanese
zero-fighters. A precious film was also put to show to visitors. After that
we got into a theatre where we could watch the genuine film of the
Pearl Harbor attack. Then, we went forward to the Arizona memorial that is
being built in white simple shaped construction crossing over the battleship
that got sank into the harbor. After finishing the Arizona memorial, we went
to see the submarine and got inside of it. The submarine had 2 torpedo
launching equipments at both sides of front and rear. The engines were of
12-cylinders (?) manufactured by GM ? First experience to see the details
of the inner side of the submarine was a little bit exciting.
Then, we moved to that last battleship “Missouri” – on its deck the surrender
was signed by Japan in front of Douglas Mac-Arthur on September 2, 1945
at Tokyo bay. The ship was re-used at the time of Ireq war in ……. Year.
Historically the post-war Japan got started from this date’s signature in
agreement to the surrender to Allied Powers. After finishing the Pearl Harbor,
headed to Diamond Head in the afternoon.
We took a public bus back to Waikiki then took a OliOli bus which was free
to JTB customers up to Diamond Head. The bus stop was just at the center
of the crater of volcano now perhaps extinct. We got a ticket and walked up
the trail toward the hill top – highest part of the tiny mountain.
The winds were so nice and cozy to skin. When you arrive at the top,
you can have a 360 degree field of vision – I could have an opposite look of Waikiki
toward to our hotel Sheraton, Waikiki. It took this one whole day for the visits of
Pearl Harbor and Diamond Head only. This day we found another grill bar and
tried how American do that. Just for a table for 4 people, they asked us to wait
for 5 to 15 minutes. I said “no problem” and while waiting at the entrance I saw
a local couple who came in afterward could be automatically invited to their table
before us – perhaps because they are 2 persons ? I was a little curious.
Before long, we were also guided to our table. The person in charge of our table
was a young merry girl – she said she speaks some Japanese but we did all in English
with some jokes.
4th Day
Since I got to be here at Waikiki, I should have not missed the chance to swim
at its beach. Yes, on this 4th day, I dived into the sea for the first time.
The beach was not so much crowded and you can find a place you can leave
your articles on the sand. The waves were small but I saw some people enjoying
surf riding at the offshore. According to the explanation of OliOli bus driver,
the coast area closer to the road near Diamond Head was one of the good spot
to do it. Actually we saw lots of cars parked along the road and the people going
for surf riding. At the 2 parts of the Waikiki beach, I saw 2 different surf riding schools.
I didn’t know that before but I saw surf-riders keep themselves connected with that
surfboard with something like a black rubber strings. 2 Japanese young girls were
getting lesson to learn how to do surf-riding – how to stand on the surf-board at the sea.
The prime important point is that the surf-riders definitely must have excellent
swimming ability off the shore. I cannot do that to my regret.
In the afternoon, we had a stroll around the town to have a look at what are offered
as the souvenirs. In Hawaii, chocolate and coffee could be major items to be taken
back to home country. If you feel interested, looks like that you can experience
how to make a chocolate at its factory away from city area.
In the late afternoon, I visited a gun club and had a trial to experience genuine 2 guns
and a rifle at 20 dollars + 3 dollars in U.S. using the smallest bullets. It was exciting
but to me holding the gun connected with metal chains to the fixed bars were rather
heavy, and because of poor eyesight even with my glasses, I could not see well
the target paper hung some 10 meters apart and could not get good marks as the
result. This day we had a dinner at an Italian restaurant. Certainly the menu was
written in Italiano and I did order by the Italian name by just reading it on the menu.
On this last day in Hawaii, we had the last noon dinner at a Japanese restaurant
near our hotel before the departure by OliOli express bus to the airport. It was not
crowded. We saw their wall decorated with actual water falling down along the lines
from top to bottom without flying in the air. We could enjoy delicious sushi with
a bean-soup in a big bowl and fresh vegetable salad served by a Japanese woman
of polished manners. We would at last feel composed with the last Japanese
dishes just before our departure.
What I missed was the Polynesian dance show – if I’ll have next chance to visit Hawaii,
I’ll never miss it.
Holidays in Hawaii (2007.9.22 – 2007.9.26)
Sept 22
It was a flight of NW originally scheduled to take off at 22:40.
When we arrived KIX Kansai International Airport,
it was found at the time of check-in that the time was re-scheduled
to depart “earlier” by 10 minutes.
While we were waiting at the waiting area for the announcement
of commencement of boarding, it was announced all of a sudden
that the flight will get to be delayed because of some trouble needing check-up.
The explanation was full of obscurity and nobody could see
with the announcement what was actually happening – even the person
in charge of the announcement should have been short of the sure
information on the real facts.
Most of the passengers of the night flight looked Japanese – they are
very quiet and well-behaved, although some few people were talking to
the staffs of the airline company revealing strong concerns on the happening.
A long silence was kept between the airline and the passengers.
It was perhaps around 1:00 am that the final announcement of the captain’s
decision to get the A330 fly was done to proceed to let passengers check in.
We were all still very concerned about the safety but we saw nobody drop out.
According to the airline, the model A330 was one of the newest – simply they
paid enough precautions just in case in view of recent air crash or accident
at Pukket, Okinawa and in Brazil. As a result, fortunately nothing happened
on the way and got arrived Honolulu Airport with some 2 hours’ delay.
2nd Day
It was explained that there is a time difference of 19 hours between Japan
and Hawaii. The time we arrived Honolulu was perhaps around 15:00 or
15:30 of the local time. I was just anticipating of some suffering from jet lag
which I heard spoken by someone before but perhaps because of the night
flight – it might have worked good to avoid the jet lag – nothing was suffering
to me. With a small bottle of wine and a canned beer in the aircraft,
I could sleep rather well for some hours during the flight.
But, it was rather surprising that they offer such alcoholic beverages at
5 U.S. dollars per piece. It was a first priced experience as it was my first
flight with a direction toward U.S.A. I asked the local travel agent’s staff
if it’s good to visit to Diamond Head from that time.
He said we can go up to there but cannot enter because they shut up at 17:00.
So, we changed our idea to try visiting Hawaii University at some 2 – 3 km
away and got there by taxi. Just had looked around and found some birds
similar to dove in appearance but perhaps of half of dove in size.
Also found too small birds too much smaller than sparrow.
I could not watch them well because they were quick to go away.
Furthermore, I found the trees similar to that one which appears on the
TV advertisement of Hitachi – “Sono ki nanno ki, kininaru ki” at many places,
but I still do not know what name the tree has. We walked around the Waikiki
area and got into a restaurant filled with local people to try some American
dishes. But, just as I imagined, the beef was not a good one and lobster was
something strange and what was worse, the cooked rice was worst.
It might have been wrong to expect a nice meal at a price of around 25 dollars U.S.
3rd Day
Got up rather early and headed by local bus to Pearl Harbor.
Because we cannot see well, before getting into the bus, asked the bus driver
(woman driver) telling her that we want to go to Pearl Harbor. To our regret,
we couldn’t understand 100% what were spoken but the choice of the bus
seemed right. While on the bus, although we had a simple map in hand,
we could not see how far our destination would be. I asked another person
in the bus, and someone near by kindly answered that it would take another
20 minutes or so to reach our destination.
We didn’t know where our bus was then running so we were apt to get to feel
rather concerned. It was found later that the bus was the one you can go
directly up to the destination, and most of the people in the bus were going to
the same place - Arizona memorial.
Admission was free to see the Arizona Memorial. But, you must leave all your
personal effects outside of the memorial hall. The hall had a free check-room
and handed our baggage. We went through the exhibited articles telling the
miserable story about the people who suffered the attack by Japanese
zero-fighters. A precious film was also put to show to visitors. After that
we got into a theatre where we could watch the genuine film of the
Pearl Harbor attack. Then, we went forward to the Arizona memorial that is
being built in white simple shaped construction crossing over the battleship
that got sank into the harbor. After finishing the Arizona memorial, we went
to see the submarine and got inside of it. The submarine had 2 torpedo
launching equipments at both sides of front and rear. The engines were of
12-cylinders (?) manufactured by GM ? First experience to see the details
of the inner side of the submarine was a little bit exciting.
Then, we moved to that last battleship “Missouri” – on its deck the surrender
was signed by Japan in front of Douglas Mac-Arthur on September 2, 1945
at Tokyo bay. The ship was re-used at the time of Ireq war in ……. Year.
Historically the post-war Japan got started from this date’s signature in
agreement to the surrender to Allied Powers. After finishing the Pearl Harbor,
headed to Diamond Head in the afternoon.
We took a public bus back to Waikiki then took a OliOli bus which was free
to JTB customers up to Diamond Head. The bus stop was just at the center
of the crater of volcano now perhaps extinct. We got a ticket and walked up
the trail toward the hill top – highest part of the tiny mountain.
The winds were so nice and cozy to skin. When you arrive at the top,
you can have a 360 degree field of vision – I could have an opposite look of Waikiki
toward to our hotel Sheraton, Waikiki. It took this one whole day for the visits of
Pearl Harbor and Diamond Head only. This day we found another grill bar and
tried how American do that. Just for a table for 4 people, they asked us to wait
for 5 to 15 minutes. I said “no problem” and while waiting at the entrance I saw
a local couple who came in afterward could be automatically invited to their table
before us – perhaps because they are 2 persons ? I was a little curious.
Before long, we were also guided to our table. The person in charge of our table
was a young merry girl – she said she speaks some Japanese but we did all in English
with some jokes.
4th Day
Since I got to be here at Waikiki, I should have not missed the chance to swim
at its beach. Yes, on this 4th day, I dived into the sea for the first time.
The beach was not so much crowded and you can find a place you can leave
your articles on the sand. The waves were small but I saw some people enjoying
surf riding at the offshore. According to the explanation of OliOli bus driver,
the coast area closer to the road near Diamond Head was one of the good spot
to do it. Actually we saw lots of cars parked along the road and the people going
for surf riding. At the 2 parts of the Waikiki beach, I saw 2 different surf riding schools.
I didn’t know that before but I saw surf-riders keep themselves connected with that
surfboard with something like a black rubber strings. 2 Japanese young girls were
getting lesson to learn how to do surf-riding – how to stand on the surf-board at the sea.
The prime important point is that the surf-riders definitely must have excellent
swimming ability off the shore. I cannot do that to my regret.
In the afternoon, we had a stroll around the town to have a look at what are offered
as the souvenirs. In Hawaii, chocolate and coffee could be major items to be taken
back to home country. If you feel interested, looks like that you can experience
how to make a chocolate at its factory away from city area.
In the late afternoon, I visited a gun club and had a trial to experience genuine 2 guns
and a rifle at 20 dollars + 3 dollars in U.S. using the smallest bullets. It was exciting
but to me holding the gun connected with metal chains to the fixed bars were rather
heavy, and because of poor eyesight even with my glasses, I could not see well
the target paper hung some 10 meters apart and could not get good marks as the
result. This day we had a dinner at an Italian restaurant. Certainly the menu was
written in Italiano and I did order by the Italian name by just reading it on the menu.
On this last day in Hawaii, we had the last noon dinner at a Japanese restaurant
near our hotel before the departure by OliOli express bus to the airport. It was not
crowded. We saw their wall decorated with actual water falling down along the lines
from top to bottom without flying in the air. We could enjoy delicious sushi with
a bean-soup in a big bowl and fresh vegetable salad served by a Japanese woman
of polished manners. We would at last feel composed with the last Japanese
dishes just before our departure.
What I missed was the Polynesian dance show – if I’ll have next chance to visit Hawaii,
I’ll never miss it.
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