Bonding with the Roommate in Hawaii

Journal #48 April 19, 2009

Today I was woken up at around 5:30am by LISA CALLING MY CELL PHONE!!!! I could not believe that my phone was actually working. You can not believe what it feels like to not use your phone for 3 months and then you can finally use it!!! It is an amazing feeling. Now I must tell you that at around 9pm last night I found out that I did have service in the middle of the ocean, I called Blake but did not have really good reception so I called Brian and talked to him for about 30 min. I talked to my mom and dad for about an hour too!!! It was great to talk to all my loved ones.

The immigrations process was a little tedious in Hawaii, I guess they did not want any illegal immigrants from the ship to escape in Hawaii, haha. But I finally got off the ship at around 10. All of my friends had decided to go to Pearl Harbor and since I have been there twice I decided not to go. So for the first three hours I walked around the port and did a little shopping. The port was definitely the nicest port we had been too. There was a big mall right beside it with some restaurants. Meghan got back first and we got lunch on the ship, it was grilled cheese day :) We did not feel like waiting for the other people so we took the bus to a mall near by to get some groceries. It was great to get some good food and we even looked around the gigantic mall. There was one stand where they sold tee shirts that light up when you talk. It was really cool, and I almost bought one. But I didn’t :(

when we left the mall we headed back to the ship to get ready for dinner. We were not quite sure where we were going but we wanted a good restaurant by the ocean. So we headed towards Waikiki. The first place we saw was Cheesecake Factory. YUMMY!!! I am not gonna lie I was craving my all time favorite salad there. But we walked around and found Dukes which is a popular dinning area. Unfortunately, there was an hour wait so we went back to cheesecake. We shared an appetizer and had some wine. This dinner was a lot of fun because Meghan and I really got to know each other. We had some serious conversations and some funny ones. We even did a little crying, we could not grasp the concept that in 3 weeks we would probably never see each other ever again.

After about 3 hours at Cheesecake we headed to Senor Frogs because a lot of our friends were going to be there. When we walked in the place it was completely dead. There were probably about 3 people in there, we turned right around and headed out. The bouncer stopped us and asked us if we were trying to have some fun. We told him yes and he said to go to Zanzabar. It was only about a block away so we headed there. Now this place was hoppin. It was a lot of fun to hang out with some Hawaiians and we even saw some of our friends there. It was my mission for the night to hook Meghan up with a guy that night. So right when we got there I started my mission. I started talking to the guy beside us and he seemed really nice. He told me he was from Houston and I knew it was fate, because Meghan is from Houston too. I introduced them and they talked for a while. When she asked him to dance he said “honey, I really want to, but my wife is sitting beside me, sorry” Woopsies, my bad. At around 2 we headed back to the ship and got ready for bed. It was a really fun night with Meghan and we were pooped. We had to be rested for our fun filled day on the beach tomorrow.

Love
Michelle