Hawaii III: Conference and around

Jo and Nadia joined us and we stayed in a suite. This was on the walk to the conference on Sunday morning to register.



Sunday night Llew decided to cook and we had Daphne and Angie over for dinner. Honey soy turkey, stir fry veges and noodles, pina coladas and pineapple wine!

Monday night a few of us went to a Hibachi grill.


Tuesday night was the Brouhaha. Just a dinner. Really not worth the $75 or the $8 drinks on top. A bit of houla dancing and then we went downstairs to the Tapa bar for a few more drinks.

Shopping was good along Waikiki, if you have millions. Gucci, Chanel, Tiffany, Prada, Yves Saint Laurent, Oakley, I could go on...

The Purdue ENE booth at the exhibition. This is where I spent time when not in sessions (most of Monday and Tuesday). I did actually answer a few questions.


Wednesday we took down the booth at midday. Just time for one last session before PK bought me a few drinks and...

more souvenier shopping!

This was our suite which was the penthouse (17th floor) with three bedrooms and two bathrooms.

And this was the view! Pretty good.

Overall it was OK, but not really worth the flying time or the money spent to see what we saw. Apparently the other islands are much better, but are also expensive so we didn't get there. A trip we had to do, even if only to say that we have been to Hawaii!

Hawaii II: Around Waikiki

After a long morning driving, what could we want more than a beer, or pina colada!

Then a quick walk to the beach where I swam, but Llew didn't. This picture depicts the typical Hawaiian native with bicycle and surf board.

After the beach was the International Market Place with fauna and flora.

The view from Pat & Ralph's balcony. From inside, all you could see was the next building, but it was right on the beach.

And the view from the pool deck (if I looked straight down, there was a pina colada!).

Waikiki waters. We had just waded through the many hundreds of people on the beach in front of the Pink Palace.