Hawaii

Hawaii was the mid way stop of our 19 day journey from Japan to Costa Rica, and we only had one day there. That morning Hilton and I decided to go try to see the Arizona Memorial in the morning and then meet up with a group of girls from Oklahoma State to go skydiving with. Unfortunately for us a cruise ship of 7000 old people arrived on the same morning that we did and I think all of them had the idea to go to the Arizona Memorial in the morning. The place was packed and there was no way for us to get over to the Arizona Memorial on the ferry unless we wanted to wait 3 hours. After visiting all of these impoverished and Asian countries the past few months, it was surprising to see the mass amount of fat people at the memorial. Since we didn’t have time to catch the ferry, we walked around the museum they had on sight and then caught a cab back to the ship to meet up with our skydiving group. We got to the ship an hour early so Hilton and I walked across the street and had a sandwich at Subway. After that we met our group outside of the dock area and got a cab ride to the airstrip. Once we got there we filled out some forms and were up in a plane in less than an hour. The plane ride was about 10 minutes and they took us up 14000 feet and shoved us out of the plane. It was the most fun thing I’ve ever done. I paid a little extra to have a guy jump out of the plane with me and take pictures. The freefall was a minute long, plunging 120 mph toward earth. I can’t wait to do it again. After skydiving we went to check out the beach, which was just like every other beach in the world, sand and water. Then we ate at a Wahoo’s Fish Taco’s just like the one in Boulder, and went to a sports bar to catch some of the NBA playoffs before getting back on the ship.