The word of the day kids, is "apoplactic." Look it up, learn it, use it! Why do I bring up being apoplactic on the first day of my honeymoon? Well it all started with the Korean lady sitting in front of me on the airplane. She was went ape shit whenever someone touched her bag in the overhead bin. She apparently thought that she was entitled to a whole overhead bin to herself just because she bought a hat that she didn't want to get crushed. Ok really?! Oooooo, you should've seen the daggers in her eyes when the flight attendant told her that she couldn't have a bin all to herself for her stupid hat! The Korean lady spent all 5 hours of the flight to Hawai'i sulking about her stupid hat!
After 5 hours on a plane with an apoplectic Korean lady, we make it to paradise...Hawai'i! Sadly a light rain welcomed us. We had alittle difficulty finding the Enterprise Rental Car Company, but after asking a few ppl, we found it. Really good service at the particular Enterprise! We got the cheapest car on the lot, a Chevy Aveo to run around Honolulu for half the day.
When I requested an economy car, I didn't think that meant that the car was gonna be the basic of the most basic cars. There was no security alarm and no power ANYTHING! I LMFAO-ed when I had to crank a handle to roll down the window. I almost died when I had to manually adjust my side view mirrors with my hands! I can't remember the last time I saw a car with no power anything.
After getting our low rent ride, we went off to see Pearl Harbor. Since the hubby forgot his GPS, we relied on my phone's GPS. We kinda took the round about way to Pearl Harbor since I tried to find it on my own by following the road signs. I guess I'm not good at following road signs!
Pearl Harbor was humbling. When we went in to see a short film on the attack on Pearl Harbor, I almost cried. I don't know what made me so emotional. Perhaps it's because it's all real and not the Ben Affleck movie. We took a stroll around the whole memorial, reading tablets, doing any of the free interactive stuff, and of course taking pictures.
After visiting Pearl Harbor, we still had 2 hours to kill before returning the case and getting to the pier. We spent about a good 30 looking for a McDonald's so that we can get a fried mango or apple pie. Just when we FINALLY found one, they didn't have either pies nor or second choice, chocolate shake. I look at my husband and then look at the cashier and say, "medium iced vanilla coffee, please!" I then tell my husband, "Look, we drove around this while damn city in circles trying to find a McDonald's, the hell if I'm going to walk away without ordering SOMETHING." Right then and there I became apoplactic! I'll have to admit, my "apoplactic-ness" was rooted in lack of sleep. I had less than 3 hours of sleep getting ready for the cruise and I didn't get to fall asleep on the plane. Don't you hate it when you're super tired, but there's something in you that won't let you sleep? That was me on the airplane!
We finally check into the cruise! We were greeted with leis and we took a pic with a couple dressed in Hawaiian garb. After that, we walked "the plank," but into the boat! We find our state room and try to figure out what's going on because there was supposed to be some sort of emergency drill we had to attend. I was anxious for our luggage to arrive. When we checked in, they also took our luggage. We hoped that it would've been there when we got back fromm the emergency drill.
The good thing about the way Norwegian Cruise Line does their emergency drill is that we don't have to show up with our life jackets already on! We just calmly took the stairs down two flights to our meeting place, checked in there, and that was it! After the drill they even let us look at one of the life boats. Those life boats are NOT what I pictured. I was picturing long wooden row boats like in Titanic. These life boats looked like mini floating submarines! They had powered propellerpropellars, food, water, and a medical kit. It looked more like something to take out on weekends rather than a lifeboat! We wandered around the boat some more before returning to our state room.
We got excited at 7:00 pm because our ship blew her horn denoting that we were talking off. We hurried out to our balcony to see us push away from the pier. My husband got a little bored, but I sat out there waiting 'til we got out to the open sea. When I came back in the room, my husband was asleep! I decided to go back out to the balcony to paint my toenails and blog. So that brings me to now! Until tomorrow...TTFN!
