It Seems Like Yesterday

I have returned to NYC but because I made no entries for the first few weeks of my trip I want to add Hawaii and China to the blog.  I took many pictures and tried to e-mail some dialogue to my e-mail list when my iPad rebelled and failed in terms of my e-mail access and ability to send photos.  It stopped working correctly while I was in China.  I spent my days in Hong Kong near the Apple store where they tried to fix it and finally succeeded.  I finally a new address at gmail.

Hawaii was a nice change even if I was in the uninteresting location of Waikiki.  A tourist Mecca for many Americans and Japanese.  I was surprised to see that all the good restaurants had the menu in Japanese as well as English.  My hotel was nice if a little modest.  The hotel was near the beach. 

The weather was sunny and beautiful.  I went on an excursion to the North Coast with a group for the afternoon and we saw some nice stuff.  The skies were blue, the water was blue, lots of flowers and some very large turtles who don't become sexually active until 25 when they swim great distances to find a mate . 

We saw a Japanese Temple transported from Japan.  We went to the Dole Plantation as well.  Otherwise, I walked around, had a massage, shopped for a bathing suit and sun tan lotion, found the post office to send my phone back to NY, went to nice restaurants and got ready for my international trip.