9/20/19

Up at 4:45am. So early. The shuttle takes off for the airport at 5:55am. One last trip to the truck. Ugh. Kind of creepy in the dark. Dropped off my hotel travel bag and left the car key too. I just need to remember the code…… I put it in my phone lol. Jumped on the shuttle and it only took about five minutes to get there. Dropped off my bag. Incidentally, I get one checked bag for every singular reservation made. That translates into, Kasey and Liz have to pay to check a bag because I booked our flight together…so ridiculous. I came up with TSA pre-check so I didn’t have to take off my shoes or stand in a long line. I did, however, have to have my hands swabbed with some unknown chemical. It was a random alert that came up. Both my bags went through with no problems. We made it to the gate with about 30 minutes to spare before boarding time.

Camden looks a little grumpy lol. He got up at 4 am and did not sleep on the way to Portland.

I am sitting in 11J extra comfort seating. Basically the first seat right after first class ends. Which by the way, first class is pretty lame. We are flying on a A321 neo, whatever that is. Not a very large plane so its nothing like when I rode to Hawaii in 2017. The only thing that separates the privileged from the commoners is a mesh curtain lol.

Krystal, Randy, Camden, Kasey and Liz are back in rows 43 and 44. Their preference. Not sure why.

Hawaiian Airlines is the only airline that serves a meal free of charge. Egg, cheese and mushroom sandwich, pineapple/coconut bar and a Honolulu cookie. Two of the three were full of gluten so I rolled up the egg and mushrooms, ate the bar and I will save the cookie for later when I am not stuck on an airplane full of people. I would rather not use the restroom…I may have to later but for now I’m okay.

okay.

I watched 3 episodes of the new 911 on the Hawaiian app and another 3 episodes of Suits on the Amazon video app.

They are sending around the department of agricultural form to declare any fruit, vegetable or animals I may have brought from Oregon which is required to be filled out and signed but they do not provide anything to write with lol.

Landed at noon and it’s around 82 degrees. It feels much hotter lol. Muggy. Got our awesome rental car. Dodge Minivan. We all fit but our luggage almost didn’t.

Stopped for lunch at Cheeseburger Waikiki. I either had the best cheeseburger ever or I was starving. Yes, it was full of gluten. I will pay later.

AHHH, finally three o’clock and we can check in. Got settled in and decided to go to Costco for supplies.

Camden kept asking, “when are we going to Hawaii?” Lol. We figured we better head for the beach. Went to Makapuu Beach.

Randy and Kasey and I jumped around in the surf until Krystal thought she saw a shark…..😳😂.

Camden loved the water but we had to keep a hold of him so he didn’t get swept out. The waves were crashing pretty hard. The sand was super coarse and sticky and as we were leaving Camden asked: where is my skin?” He was covered in sand.