Sun, sea, sand, surf, and dropouts!

We were sad to be leaving New Zealand and our little camper van. To add to this we also had 15 hours of travelling ahead of us. This is the point where you all feel sorry for us and the hardships of travel but don´t get feeling too sorry though as we were heading for HAWAII!! Now before I go any further I must tell about our peculiar journey, we travel from New Zealand back to Sydney to fly to Hawaii, we travel for a very long time and arrive in Hawaii 2 hours before we arrived at the airport in New Zealand. It was the longest Friday 22nd of June ever and all because of the international date line!

Anyway, sorry, Hawaii!!! I had talked Ellie into including Hawaii on our travel plans as I had heard so much about the sun, surf and HULA HULA girls. There was plenty of sun and surf but the only hula hula girls we saw looked like the pre-diet picture you see for slim fast!
Not too disheartened by this fact we did have almost a week of pure sun, surfing and body boarding (even Ells tried and succeeded at surfing on the famous Waikiki beach!).

We did however break up these paradise days with a trip to Pearl Harbour. While there we saw the harrowing original footage of the attack and the single bomb blast that totally destroyed the war ship Arizona. After this we were treated to the most politically insensitive talk ever about the cowardly Japanese and their tirant empire. I think that the Japanese members in our group really appreciated it! We were then taken out to see the sunken wreck of the battle ship that is lying where it was bombed, still with over one thousand bodies entombed!

We were lucky enough to find a very reasonably priced hostel right on Waikiki beach and couldn´t understand why it was so cheap for it´s location. We turned up and the room that we had was fine, which puzzled us even more. All was answered when we found one of the blokes that was in the dorm next door making his own Crystal Meth (some new drug in America that kills your brain). He spent all of his time collecting shells and making patterns with them which he would then proudly show to anyone passing by, very bizarre! Then another guy from the same dorm was found unconscious the first night we were there and was rushed to hospital and resuscitated twice. This we thought was quite hardcore until the following night the bloke that had found the unconscious guy was found dead in his bed after an overdose!!! As you can guess our room was so cheap because it just about one step up from a homeless drop in centre!

Still, the beach and weather were absolutely amazing and we loved Hawaii!