March 16 - Houston to Honolulu

Well, the long awaited Hawaii trip for the Gray girls got off to an early start.  Up at 5:30, we were ready and out the door to the Houston Intercontinental airport for our 8-hour flight to Honolulu.  No food service on the flight, so we took a bag full of munchies and thought we would "tank up" at the airport.  We had a scrawny breakfast burrito....hmmm, wonder how long that will last.  We did just fine.

The flight was great.  No problems at all.  Delma slept a little while I watched a movie.  She was literally freezing sitting at the window.  Per the screen display, it was -74 degrees outside at 36,000 feet.  Guess she had a perfect reason to be cold!  I spent the rest of the trip reading a good book.  Delma finally watched a movie (Jennifer Aniston's "Horrible Bosses").  It's always funny listening to someone cracking up watching a movie.....when no one else has a clue what's going on.

Anyway, the flight was pleasant and Delma made it through without killing anyone.

We got to Honolulu.  I went in search of the bags; Delma went in search of an "authorized" smoking area.  Finally!!  Got the bags and went to the Hertz location.  I swear, it looked like they were having a party.  There were people all over.  I should have known that was NOT a good thing.  An hour and a half later, we got our car and were headed to the Disney Aulani Report and Spa.

Wow, what a place.  It is absolutely beautiful.  Got to our room.  Dumped things off in the room, and out the door we went.....had to explore the Aulani.  Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.  The pool area is fantasitc.  Kids would really love it.  We walked from there to the beach.  Did I mention "beautiful"?  Wow.  Here we are with the Pacific Ocean in the background.

We went to the beach bar, had a Mai Tai and watched the sunset. 

Fantastic end to the day -- at 7:30PM.  Got back to the room and Delma hit the bed.  She was out!!  I made it a bit longer -- I had to finish that good book I started on the plane.