It’s been a fabulous week. We’ve had a great time. But now we have to leave and head for home. The hotel room was very comfortable and the view from our balcony was outstanding. So we’re up early as usual for us. Headed down for one last buffet breakfast in the KAI restaurant. Then packed up, loaded everything in the car.

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Then took one more walk around the resort where we found the wedding chapel. Nice place for a wedding.

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We stopped in at a farmers market and looked around. Didn’t see anything we just had to have, and went on downtown to visit the Hulihe’e Palace. This was the home of the last queen of Hawaii. It was pretty severely damaged in the earthquake this October so we could only tour the main floor. Most of the furnishings were moved around, and covered up.

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We stopped for lunch at a sidewalk restaurant over looking the ocean. Had a leisurely lunch, gassed up the car, and headed out to the air port even though our flight isn’t till 7:38 PM.

Hawaii_2006/DSC02283We sat at the Kailua-Kona airport from 3:00 PM till our flight boarded after 7:00 PM. We had thought that we might be able to catch an earlier flight they run to Honolulu almost every hour, but were told that there was no space available. However, I talked to someone else who was there early, and they were scheduled on the flight after ours. So, I was surprised when we left with empty seats on the aircraft.

We left Honolulu on Continental at 10:15 PM headed for Houston. It’s 7 hours flying time + 4 hours time change for around 11 hours putting us in Houston at around 9:30 AM on Thursday December 14th.