Day 5:

Today is beach and luau day.  The weather is absolutely spectacular, sunny skies, light wind and 90 degrees.  It rained very hard last night with flood warnings for inland but nothing on the beach except rain.  There is a large drain off nearby!

After a bloody at our favorite haunt across the street, we were headed to the beach but ran into a road block right outside of our condo building.

Water Main Break - Oops

The building in the left of the photo of the condo building where we are staying.  The storm sewers were able to handle the thousand gallons of water so no damage to the buildings other than some wet welcome mats.  It was quite the scene and held up traffic for a couple of hours.  The geyser is pretty high.  We were on a second story street level when taking the picture.

Off to the beach...

Not The Only Ones On The Beach Today

Body to Body On The Beach But Always Room For One More - Aloha Way

Tour Launches

How Clear The Water - Amazing

Can You See The Minnows?

Taking A Break Along The Beach

Mai Tai Time

The happy hour Mai Tai's are not made with the 151 so not quite as good as the evening.  

The luau was very fun.  Again, we followed the advice of our friend, Clinton, and again he did not disappoint us.  Germaine's Luau was excellent.  The imi (removing the smoked pig from the ground), food and dinner show were all very good.

Getting Ready For The Luau

Luau Beach

Horrendous Honolulu Traffic Jam

Taking Pictures Of Ourselves On Bus - Part Of The Keep Busy Party

The luau was on the western shore of the island about 30 miles from the condo.  What should have been about a 45 minute drive turned out to be an hour and a half yuk!  Our tour guide, Matt, with the first T silent, kept everyone pretty well entertained during the drive.  He never got tired of the silent T joke.  Americans are definitely in the minority here.  The Australians had the largest number followed by Canada then California.  We have not met anyone from MN as yet.  We had dinner with the Australians and a young couple from Baltimore that live in HI.  We had our Australia geography and history lesson and may have even been talked into visiting the Aussie's one day.  They tell us they have lots of wine and great beer - enough said?

We do not have any good pictures from the luau as it was dark by luau time - remember no daylight time here.  The beach was only lit by tiki lamps so definitely not enough lights for our cameras.  Hula and fire dancers were great.  Matt tired to breath fire on the way back but his Bic couldn't reach his lips, lol.

Beach and laundry day tomorrow.