Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Hawaii Day 1: Makaha

My family and I took a vacation in Hawaii at the end of June and we had a great time. The vacation was much needed and it left us with many memorable moments and memories.

We left the main land on June 19, flew out to Honolunu on Delta Airlines. The most interesting fact about the flight is they just installed an in-flight entertainment system. Every chair has a flat screen, installed on back of the head rest of the chair in front of you. You can watch news, TV, pay-per-view movies, sports or play games on demand. You supposed to pay for this service but unfortunate for them but lucky for us, the system was down and they had to reboot it a couple times. I think after while they gave up trying to fix it and let us watch everything for free. There were about 30 movies over all. Some just been released shortly in the theaters so we took full advantages of it. My kids watched Jumpers, Hana the young pop singers. My wife watched some chick flicks. I watched the Discovery channel. For the TV channels, it works until the airplane flew out of the LA metropolitan area and we lost all signals. This help us passed the boring long flight. We eat, watch TV, nap nap, go to the restroom, and come back redo the whole routine over for 5 hours.

Finally we landed around 10 pm at night. By the time we got the rental cars, drove to our hotel, Makaha Resort and Golf Club, which is quite far from the air port, and checked in, I think it was already passed midnight.

It was so dark at night so we had no idea how our hotel look like, until we woke up in the morning and the scenery was gorgeous. Take a looks at a couple pictures of Makaha Resort. The green mountain is the hotel's background.






This pictures was taken from the balcony of my room. I like it a lot because it look a lot like a postcard picture:




To be continued...

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