I had intended, way back when, to chronicle the whole moving process in this blog, but it turns out that the moving process is a bit too involving to leave time to blog about it. Also, it's a pretty traumatic experience on the whole, and doesn't tend to leave one wanting to relive it by writing about it. Best left behind, I think. So I think I'll leave out all the nasty bits about mailing 40 HEAVY boxes via the US Postal Service. I'll bypass going into detail about how bad the household goods shipping experience was (REALLY bad). I'll spare you (and by "you", I mean "me" since that's probably the only person who will read this) the details about lizard adoptions, and long-term cat-sitting by amazing, saint-like friends. Well, I may write about that last one as it's an ongoing saga.
So far, we've been doing a lot of the tourist stuff, mostly on foot or by city bus. In no particular order, we've done:
- Ala Moana mega-mall several times (food court is pretty bomb)
- hiking to Manoa falls (beautiful! birds! jungle! mud! mosquitoes!)
- a city bus trip around the entire island, which consisted of us sitting for nearly 5 hours on a circle-island bus - a great way to see the island, but kind of makes your butt fall asleep)
- Hawaii Conservation Conference Film Festival (more about that later)
- Waikiki Aquarium - hawaiian monk seals, lots of gorgeous fishies, 3 cute squid and one saucy, flirty octopus:
- amazing public lectures by renowned oceanographer Sylvia Earle and 'master navigator' Nainoa Thompson - more on that later
- Honolulu Zoo
- walking through an industrial wasteland to get to Sand Island to pick up my car (got to see the Hokule'a, though, which was an unexpected treat)
- hanging out at Sandy's Beach - tons of bodysurfing going on.
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