Aloha!

I still feel like Im rocking back and forth on the cruise ship. I find myself stoping to catch my balance, when in fact I'm not moving at all...funny. Hopefully that'll pass soon. So, we made it back, safe and sound. We are soooo glad to be home. Sure vacation is nice but so is sleeping in your own bed and not having to stablize yourself as you walk around. But where do I even start.... to my Hawaii was a bit of a dissapointment. I know your probably thinking 'WHAT, YOUR IN HAWAII'. I know, I know. Well lets make this fair, only 1/2 the time was dissapointing. The ship was not all it was cracked up to be. I guess they were in dry dock for a while until we all got on the plane, plus they sold The Pride of Aloha so there were all those workers who came to The Pride of America to work and had no idea what the heck they were doing. There wasn't hardly any entertainment on the ship, so while we weren't out touring the island we really didn't have much to keep us busy. Sure there were a couple shows here and there but they didn't last long at all, only like a half and hour. There was a comedy show and that guys was AWESOME! We laughed from the time we got there until the time he was done, that was probably the highlight of being on the ship. I'd love to see him again. You may have seen him on Comedy Central and the Late Show, his name is Chris Alpine and I highly recommend his work. Well we got there on Saturday and was pretty much going non stop until we left. We had excursions that we went on an every island starting with Maui. We took the Road to Hana which is not recommended for people with motion sickness. It was probably the best tour that we went on. To me seeing those views of hawaii is what it's all about. That was a looong 10 hour day so by the time we got back to the ship we were sooo exhausted. We also went to Kona and went in the submarine which was a waste of a lot of money. I thought it would be cool and we'd see all these cool fish and that it would be colorful but it wasn't anything like what we had thought. It was boring and we hardly got to see anything and what we did see was all the same fish over and over again. We were 100 feet down into the coral reef. We also went to Pearl Harbor and Hunolulu City which was interesting to see the USS Arizona and to see all the names on the wall, it was sad and emotional for some. In Hilo we checked out Valcano and Rainbow Falls. In Kona we hoped aboard a pinzgauer to travel up to the cool and misty lava scaped slopes on an off road rocky adventure, we went from sea level to 6,000 feet, it was freezing up there! Not my cup of tea thats for sure. James loved it, but I would have been better off at the gift shops...lol. We enjoyed a 45 minute helicopter ride over East Maui, that was the best even tho I did get a little sick torwards the end, but it was well worth it. We were pretty much going all day, most of the excursions were 3-8 hours long, some days we had more than one to go to. This is all I can think of now, I'll continue later.