I didn’t go to sleep last night. Reason? Worked late and had to get up early today. Why? Vacation! I was meeting Chie in Manila, Philippines. We are going to Boracay for an almost 2 weeks vacation.
I departed Arlanda early in the morning and had to spend about 6 hours in Amsterdam before my flight to Manila. I was so exhausted I slept half the way to Manila.
After two loooong flights and a lot of waiting I finally arrived at Arlanda airport. I arrived at 6:30 am and was back in Uppsala by 8 am. 8 am means 8 pm September 6 in Hawaii. Chie and I left our hotel at 8 am September 5, which means I have traveled for 36 hours. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…
Our flight back to Honolulu was at 11 am. We checked in by 9 am and by 11:30 am we were back in Honolulu.
Chie’s flight was scheduled for 3 pm so we had some time to just walk around. We also had a lunch – tuna salad sandwich and some smoothies.
At 2 pm Chie ahd to board her flight. But after she boarded something made the flight delayed. Her flight did not depart until 4 pm.
Then I had another 5 and a half hours to kill before my flight to Newark and then to Stockholm.
Our last day in Kauai. We wanted to spend it at our favorite beach Kiahuna. We relaxed, had lunch, swam in the big waves. And Chie had a Mai Tai in the afternoon.
At 5;30 pm we went to Foodland and bought some fish and clams for dinner. Chie made a tomato sauce to that and salad.
After dinner we packed.
To get to Gillin’s beach you have to drive a dirt road for a mile or two. And that is what we did this morning. When we arrived we saw three legged dog and a few cars. We stayed here for two hours, reading and swimming.
By lunch time we moved to Kiahuna beach. Our favorite beach. Today the waves were even bigger than before. I got totally wet again when a wave came all the way up to where we were laying in the sand. So we moved even further up.
Around 5 pm we went to Koloa town to buy groceries. But first we had an ice cream. Coconut ice cream in a waffle cone. Yummy!
At home we cooked dinner again. Today we had tomato, anchovy, capers, olive sauce and pasta. With edamame and tomato salad, as well as greek salad. Delicious. But before we had dinner we went down to the beach to watch the sunset again. It was beautiful.