Sunday Aloha Hawaii

Graham was up early but we didn't have a good night so I pulled the covers over my head till 7.30. We got close to being packed and went to the Coffee Bean for coffee. We have to check out by 12.00 and we don't get collected by the transfer service until 5.45pm, so we'll leave our bags in the hotel's free storage until then. We'll have a nice day wandering around. Probably sit around the beach somewhere if we can find shady space. Of course, I have my knitting! Signing off for the day; we may get wifi in the Delta lounge this evening. LATER... With our bags in storage, we went to the Coffee Bean for a last Hawaiian coffee. We went our separate ways, some walking and some sitting in the lobby to fill in the time. Graham and I went for a slow walk but we only got as far as the Cheesecake Factory alleyway before Graham had had enough and wanted to turn back. It was pretty hot in the sun, not as humid as yesterday but still he was finding it difficult. I left Graham in the lobby with Barb and went for a bit of a walk. I had wanted to go into Macy’s but this was the first opportunity I’d had: I was very glad I did because I found a birthday present for Rich. Having retrieved our bags, the shuttle eventually turned up half an hour later than we expected, with Graham getting quite agitated. Off we went to the airport at last, a quick trip. Rick got us a trolley and pushed it to First Class for us, only to be told that we had to go back to the Agriculture screening to get clearance stickers. Check-in was quick; going through security we jumped the queue, of course, but then we encountered the body scan machine. This was a disaster for Graham and I quickly explained that he wouldn’t be able to follow the instructions; they kindly took him out and did a body check manually. He was, however, in an awful state by the time he got back around the machine to me. We headed off to find the Delta lounge. Here we discovered that we weren’t covered for the lounge by our First Class tickets but we should have gone to the Hawaiian Airlines lounge across the other side of the terminal. We could choose to pay $50 per person to stay – I had no choice; Graham was in such a state that we stayed there. I also asked if they could organise a wheelchair to take us to the plane. Meantime, the Delta Lounge in Honolulu is somewhat of a hole: extremely tiny with a very small selection of finger foods and snacks. There was plenty of variety of drinks at least. The wheelchair was such a help and we were soon at the gate lounge waiting to board the plane first. Good flight and as usual lots of food forthcoming. Graham only slept for about 10 mins; I probably got an hour’s sleep but woke up when he climbed over me, somewhat agitated. Thankfully I have my Rescue lollies! We had a chair waiting in Seattle, which took us all the way to a cab which we all squished into, including the bags.