Spring Break in Hawaii Part 2: Flight Delayed...

I woke up to the sound of my alarm super excited. I sat up and found Nathan already awake. He told me he had received a text 30 minutes earlier saying our flight had been delayed another two hours.... WHAT?!?! That is not what I wanted to wake up to! We discussed what we should do with those extra hours, and eventually decided to just head to the airport for the previous time in hopes that they wouldn't really be delayed that long. (Not our brightest decision.)

We ended up spending our Easter Sunday chilling at the Boise Airport for 6 hours... They provided us with food vouchers as some compensation for our delay, which was nice, and gave us free drinks as well while we sat at our terminal. To help pass the time Nathan and I played some Pinball at the arcade and Ticket to Ride on our phones. (It was also nice to have the scriptures to read to help make it feel a little more like Easter Sunday.) The thing that made the wait seem extra long was that the plane and crew were all there and ready to go. We were just waiting for the pilot to get his rest (12 hours of rest... goodness!)

The pilots finally arrived and we were all ready to go. They started up the engines and... They died!!! I kid you not! They had to jump start the engines! That sure made us feel excited to fly over thousands of miles of ocean.... Thankfully we managed to get up into the air and were on our way to Hawaii!

I've never flown over an ocean before. It was amazing.. and slightly scary. When the clouds cleared up I could see the rippling waves across the vast blue ocean. The sunset was golden and heavenly. We arrived to the island after the sun had set. Flying into Oahu at night was pretty cool! There were lights all around the boarder of the island and pure blackness in the middle and on the ocean.

Once we had landed and got our rental car we drove through the night life of Waikiki. We loved seeing all of the people still out and about and the silhouettes of palm trees along the beach. When we drove close to the shore we could hear the gentle waves, but couldn't really see the ocean from the car. We were slightly bummed that we had to spend most of our day at the airport instead of on the beach like planned, but once we were there we didn't care anymore and we were ready to have the best vacation ever!

We arrived at Amanda and Blake's place and pretty much went straight to bed. We wanted to get up early in the morning and head straight to a beach and explore the island a little before we headed to Sea Life Park where we....

........To Be Continued.......