Today is Tuesday

Tuesday is a day that I've been thinking about for a while. Saturday was the day we flew in from the Big Island and met up with round 1 of Ohio-ins, and Tuesday was the day that the rest of the group would arrive. We wanted to save all the cheap things for when they came, but Architecture wanted to do Pearl Harbor this morning. We decided to go along with them, and then if anyone from round 2 wanted to see the Arizona Memorial we could always hit it up again (hey, its free).

So we drove through the mountains (right where we stayed with Chris and John a bit later in our timeline) all the way to downtown Honolulu near where Pearl Harbor is.

Then Architecture went on the Missouri and the rest of us cut out to go grocery shopping at Coscos for everyone for the week. We ended up over buying because we thought more people would be eating in. We spent a few hours there, then drove back to Kailua to drop off the grocery's before making some tacos for dinner, then heading back out to pick up the schmucks at the airport.

Meanwhile...

Until we finally got them after picking up and dragging their tired bodies home in really cool van (the celling had green lights that shown out from the centerline).

We gave them some tacos for dinner, but mostly they were ready to crash, but fighting that feeling for the excitement to be in Hawaii... we all ran to the Kailua Beach across the street, stripped down (to nothing) and swam in the ocean. This hit the spot for everyone's day on the airplane needs, and was a really good icebreaker to reconnect with all my friends. Oh, how I will miss them! (written with sarcasm, but felt with love)