Sorry that I did not post yesterday. We flew in to Honolulu from Molokai early in the morning which was quite interesting in itself. We arrived at the airport an hour early to check in. After we turned our rental car in we found the ticket counter for Pacific Wings but no one was there. A sign read, "Ticket Self Check In with instructions to use the phone on the desk to call and check yourself in. About 30 minutes later the pilot of our plane, Captain Tim, walked to the counter and began weighing our bags and checking our ID. We were then instructed to go to the baggage claim area, not security, to wait. In another 10 minutes he came to pick us up. He took a head count, there were 9 of us, and walked us out onto the runway where our plane was waiting. Captain Tim then proceeded to give us our seat assignments, no doubt by our weights that we were forced to reveal, in order to balance the plane. After we were seated he gave us the pre-flight briefing including instructions of how to use a sick bag, stressing accuracy, and the fact that this small plane has many bells and alarms that may go off during the flight, explaining that most of the sounds should be normal. He did not expound as to the abnormal sounds we should listen for. The flight was a short 25 minutes and was quite beautiful just like our flight to Molokai. The landing was perfect, we disembarked from the plane, Captain Tim unloaded our luggage, we picked it up, he walked us to the gate and bid us farewell. Talk about "no frills". Also at no time did we or any of our luggage go through any security! I spent the next 2 hours at an Urgent Care facility because I experience severe ear pain as we were landing and I suspected that I was getting an ear infection. Sure enough the doctor found fluid behind the eardrum and prescribed a Z-pak. I am feeling a lot better already. As if that weren't bad enough, as we were driving down to Waikiki to see the fireworks, Sara's car overheated and stalled in the Honolulu rush hour traffic. We were able to get the car to a filling station and had to refill the radiator. We ended up parking it and picked it up this morning and dropped it at a service garage. Hopefully it isn't going to be a huge expense to fix. We rented a car for the next few days to get around.
Today at 2:30 we checked in to the Aulani Disney Resort. In true Disney fashion we were greeted at the front lobby by valets, bellhops and greeters that showered us with leis and helped us to the reservation desk offering assistance at every turn. I guess this is how the other half lives but it has been really fun so far even if it is kind of a splurge for me. My water camera died so I wasn't able to get pictures of all the water features but I will try to post some tomorrow. We went for dinner tonight but ended up watching an outdoor movie, The Smurfs, and just dining on deli ham sandwiches, fruit and popcorn sitting on the lawn. We did finally see a beautiful sunset tonight in the cove. So all ended well. Tomorrow we hope to see Mickey!
P.S. I almost forgot, as we were picking the kids up at the Hale Koa this morning we saw the guy from Pawn Stars leaving the same time as we were. I slowed the car down and told Matt to take a picture, He saw us and told us to come over and get in the picture with him. My brief encounter with celebrity!
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