I started out the day with a lovely swim on Waikiki Beach, in the bikini. Sadly, no cute guys around.
I started out the day with a lovely swim on Waikiki Beach, in the bikini. Sadly, no cute guys around.
After that it was...Shopping Day! Dad OK'd it..so long as he got to go see the Punchbowl cemetary. Why anyone would want to go to a cemetary as a tourist spot when you didn't know anyone in it is beyond me. But after that...shopping!
1st stop: Aloha Tower shopping center (the tower was closed). Had stores that were vaguely interesting (lots of Wyland artwork (the whale/dolphin guy)- beautiful), saw two fabulous prom dresses (sigh), but didn't buy anything there.
2nd: Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center. Mostly ritzy stores, but found one really nice and VERY cheap one (Jeans Unlimited- great chick store), I got a black velvet jacket there =)
3rd: International Market Place, to get the stuff we'd lusted after on Friday and hadn't had the $ for. I get another Hawaiian dress, stocked up on the flowered hair clips (Dad gave me an extra $20. Incidentally, it turned out that he didn't expect me to SPEND it. 
), and bought Mom some earrings. Mom got a shorts-and-T-shirt outfit. Dad got cranky. Then we went home.
After some begging, the parents agreed to let me watch the premieres of Suddenly Susan and Caroline (on at 7 & 8 pm here). =) After seeing the two, they appear to be becoming twin shows. Seriously. What, is everyone supposed to get laid during sweeps on the same night?
Susan: Susan and Jack wanna get laid, but everyone else keeps interrupting them. They give up and decide to go out the next night. However, Susan wants to eat (she's very hungry) and orders half the menu, and Jack's practically jumping up and down and whining to go to bed. She gets annoyed, he thinks she's chickening out, and no one gets laid. He schmoozes her the next night, they agree to "wait" and "take our time so it's more special", and all the other cliches that I am quite sick of.
In other plot lines, I got a kick out of Vicki's not knowing her hotel name (she's here too!)- the "Hawaiian Royal Some-cliche" and the clerk says there's 30 hotels called that- cracked me up. And that Maddy is an evil bitch. Ick.
Then my long-awaited Caroline....My lust for Richard is once again in full throttle! =)=)=)=)=)
The plot: After making out for a few minutes, they suddenly realize they haven't brushed their teeth (oh brother, I think they would have already noticed THAT at first). Richard gets naked...and it is a be-yew-ti-ful sight. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Lust-o-meter hits 11. Then, of course, all the friends have to come in and refuse to leave the lovebirds alone. And Caroline finds out that the card company has been sold and the new owners want her to work in their offices- she doesn't like it. Later on, R and C (her time limit) agree to "wait" for two months- Grrrrrrrrrrrrr. Mom claims it's a buildup/anticipation thing to keep an audience. Hey, show Richard naked every week and I'll ALWAYS watch.
Anyway, watching the twin shows I started to get annoyed. I'm so bloody sick of how the 90's is fast becoming the 50's revisited- back to no one ever has sex/put it in the hope chest until marriage and then reproduce a lot thing. Why couldn't I have been this age in the 70's, where you were encouraged to not have kids and could get laid whenever you wanted without fear of death?
Okay, back to the day. After that we went out to a fancy restaurant, Acqua- you KNOW the joint's fancy when they put your napkin in your lap for you. Mom kept going on about the table decorations. The food was fabulous, I got to dress up, it was marvelous.
I don't want to leave here.
This is (in all likelihood) the last travel diary entry, as tomorrow I'll be, uh, busy. Very busy. Sitting on my butt in a car going home and whatnot.
Aloha, Oahu. As God is my witness, I will return here again.
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Entry written September 21, retyped December 23.
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