29th July '98

The first day in Big Island

The airplane reached Honolulu International Airport on time, at 9:15am. When it left the airport, departure time was late for thirty minutes, because the airplane had a minor trouble. But we had no problem during flight to Hawaii. In Honolulu airport, we moved to Inter-Island counter after immigration. I chose Aloha airlines for travel. I always chose Hawaiian airlines, But I changed airlines because Hawaiian airlines piloted hard. This airplane was late for departure about thirty minutes, too. Because the runway was too crowded. The flight time to Kona was about thirty-five minutes. So, I could not have some tea as the airplane reached Keahole airport too fast. I reserved Dollar Rent A Car for rental car. Package of "Roberts Overnighters" had a medium class car. I asked Roberts to upgrade the class, as I always asked luxury class. We reached Waikoloa resort about thirty minutes by car. I drived my car monotonously because there were a lots of lava all over the place. You can see this sight from airplane. In Waikoloa, I got some water bottles and few foods at Kings Shop. And we took a meal at Hamayu restaurant inside the Kings Shop, because we had no meal in the morning. We went to Condominium after a meal. I reserved the Shores at Waikoloa for staying. It was the way to enter the gate of condominium that I　extremely worried at this time. The condo had one entrance. There was a hard gate at the front of the condo. The gate was operated automatically, but I did not know how to open the gate. When I setted my car at the front of gate, I could see a telephone,an explanatory note and some switches at the left side. The note said that I pushed No.101 after pushing N0.9 and hearing a tone sound. I could talk someone at the visitor office, and she just took the gate open. The category of the room, which I reserved, was two-bed room. I thought that one-bed room was good for us, three. But I chose this, because the prices were no large difference. So the room was too large, I thought that the room was too good for us, three. The time was at 2:00pm. We slept few times. We went to Anaenumau beach after just sleeping. I could get to there by walk, but we went to by car, as we were very tired. If this beach was good, I thought that we might go very day. But I thought that this beach was no good, because a grain of the sand was too big and a color of the sand was dark. I thought that I might find better beach anywhere tomorrow. I decided that I went back to my condo today.