We just couldn’t stay away…

Got on a flight at 6pm from Vancouver,  hours later we’re in Honolulu. A semi-stressful ride to our hotel – just finding our way in the dark, after a long flight and a long day and we’re both a little tired and grumpy – but we made it and both fell asleep super quick.

The next day I had a 6am shuttle to go diving! Miranda was hanging out at a stagette in the afternoon and evening, so this day would be spent almost completely apart.

I had decided to dive with Reef Pirates, a diving operation recommended to me by my friend Sean. This was an great recommendation – this is the only dive shop in this area I can see that isn’t all full of cattle-car like boats. I did 4 dives, the most I’ve ever done in a day! We started out by diving the Kahala Barge – a massive ship with tons of cool reef stuff growing on it. Just the size of this thing is impressive! At one point Sean found an octopus in a hole. He found a stick and put it into the hole, and moments later there was this black ink spewing out of the hole, with tentacles writhing and wrapping around the stick. Very cool! Then we went to Fantasy Reef, which was a great collection of rocks with lots more life growing all over the place.

We stopped at the dock to drop off some folks and pick up some more folks. I decided to get a burger for lunch, which wasn’t the smartest idea (diving — being horizontal for 40 minutes at a time), but was delicious. I went to Teddy’s Bigger Burger, and the smallest burger here was larger than most you’ll find in Vancouver. I did two more dives that afternoon. We went to Koko Craters and then Turtle Canyon. Apparently the turtles realized that they’d been pigeon-holed, and had stopped hanging out at Turtle Canyon. We did see an amazing National Geographic moment – I got video on my little snorkel camera of two turtles fighting over a piece of rock! I’ll try to post the video, but it may be a few days. 🙂 We had a new dive master for the afternoon, and two people on the boat who’d only barely finished their Open Water certs, so this was a bit of a different experience – a little more “follow the leader” and a little less “exploration”.

I got a ride back to our condo (which is on the 43rd floor of the building, facing the mountain – awesome view!). Miranda was just finishing her afternoon and we went out to Cheeseburger Honolulu for dinner – tasty, but not amazing. $4 Mai Tais and Pina Coladas were worth it though. 🙂

That evening she had an event to go to, so I had to figure out what to do. I had thought to find some circus or parkour in the city, which exists, but not on a Saturday night! So I thought instead to go for a run…but after diving all day, I was pretty damn tired. Instead I found a movie theatre and walked the half hour to it to go watch Spiderman 2, which was a pretty good movie. 🙂 I had only watched 1 on the plane the day before, so it was well timed. 😛

That night I walked back along the canal. Pretty. Sort of 80s TV crime drama-esque, in a way that I can’t quite explain. I got back and the bathroom light was on…I figured we’d left it on…when I hear a “Hello?”…apparently she’d gotten home minutes earlier and had thought I was asleep in bed so had left all the lights off! She was very very happy, in a drunken sense, so we hung out and talked about our days apart before both passing out in exhaustion. 🙂

Today is Sunday and we have nothing planned. We’re both pretty tired, so right now it’s a pretty chill day of having breakfast…playing a game or two…who knows what the afternoon will bring!