On Sunday, we rise early to take the 6:40am shuttle bus from the hotel to the airport. We are the first on the shuttle and the last off, getting to the international terminal which serves Hawaiian Airlines at 7:10am. It is early enough to check in for our 8:45am flight to Honolulu. The flight is about 5 and 1/2 hours long, but it is pleasant. We are seated in the first row behind first class which provides lots of leg room.
Arriving in Honolulu, we take a cab to the Embassy Suites Waikiki, which is very nice. We arrive at 1pm, too early to check in for our room, but we are able to drop our bags and change into swimsuits to lounge at the pool with frozen Cadillac Margaritas! Shortly after 3pm, we check into our room and go for a walk along Waikiki beach. It is a beautiful sunny day (we later learned that there were record setting temperatures), maybe even too sunny -- even though it is January, the sun feels very strong. I am very hungry, so we stop for Mahi Mahi fish tacos at the Hilton Hawaiian Village, very tasty.
We continue walking, trying to find the casual Thai restaurant that we had enjoyed on a previous trip to Oahu, but it seems to be gone. Oh well.
After a short interlude at the Embassy Suites' manager's reception, we head to Roy's for dinner. We had previously called for a reservation, but could get nothing before 8:45pm -- too late for us. So we just showed up and they were able to seat us at 6:30pm at what they called the chef's table, a bar overlooking the extremely busy kitchen -- perfect! Here's a photo of the action:
I enjoy my dinner of opakapaka, and Rob has a dinner of a sushi roll, spicy tuna, followed by a salad, and then a smaller portion of butterfish. The dinner was especially delicious!
We are very tired after a long day and head back to our hotel room to turn in for the night. It will be another long day tomorrow with a 11 hour or so flight to Sydney, Australia. Fortunately, we won't have to get up too early as our flight doesn't depart until 11:55am.
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