Our Anniversaries Trip to Hawaii - Day 12 - "Stuck" in Hawaii

10/4/2013  Friday

Today was a unique day for us.  We again watched the sun come up over the water from our window.  We packed up our stuff and checked out of our condo hotel.  Our flight was not scheduled to begin boarding until 9:40 PM.  So we went and played miniature golf at Bellows Air Force Station which is where we had been staying all this time. 

Miniature Golf and Bellows Air force Station

After an hour and a half of gut busting fun, we drove into Waikiki and did a self- guided walking tour. We spent the entire day walking around, seeing the sights, and going in lots of wonderful shops.  Dayle and Stephanie liked the shops, but they could not buy anything because we had no room left in our luggage.  Then as the sun was setting we ran to the beach and watched the sunset over the water.  This was unique for us.  In the morning we were on the east coast and watched the sun come up, then in the evening we were on the west coast and watched the sun set.   Did you know that a sunrise and a sunset look the same?  Well duh.

A Banyan Tree

Feeding the fish in the Waikiki Marina

A view of the sea pond with Diamond Head in the background.

A shot of Diamond Head from Waikiki.  I took a picture yesterday from Diamond Head toward Waikiki

This is why Hawaii has a rainbow on their license plate

Sunset in Waikiki

After sunset we made our way back to the car and hurried to the Hickam Air Force Base Passenger Terminal to get all situated for our 2140 (9:40 PM roll call) .  Once there we found out that roll call was not at 2210 (10:10 pm)and there are 19 seats available and that there are not even 19 people checked in for those seats.  Yay!  We unloaded the car, took up "residence" in the terminal, and prepared to return the rental car.  We then noticed that a whole lot more people had come into the terminal all with luggage.  Normally this is no big deal in a regular airport.  But at a military terminal it could be a big problem especially because our flight was the only one left going out tonight.  Space Available flights work on available seats and the travelers priority level.  There are six levels of priority and we are the lowest priority.  So we decided to hold off an returning the rental car.  In the meantime while waiting for roll call we found a family that was on the same flight when we came to Hawaii.  He is in the Coast Guard stationed at Sacramento Air Station, they are Christians, and then live literally the next street over from Stephen and Neeley in Sacramento.  Not only that but they have to drive past Stephen and Neeley's house every day.  They even knew our truck and trailer as they have seen it there many times.  We will be hooking up with them when we return.

Roll Call began promptly at 2210 and about 50 people stoop and gathered around.  Then on three names were called for the now nine available seats.  One of those names was this young family who were traveling on leave, but there were only three seats for the family of four so, Anne, decided to fly home commercially as Dan had to be back to work on Monday. 

We, just like everyone else ran out of the terminal and sped off to various lodging places.  We planned on staying on Pearl Harbor Naval Base in we could not get out.  There were only 30 rooms available and we did get two of them for two nights.

The next available flight is Sunday morning and then there are four flights scheduled on Monday.  So, hopefully we will get one of them.  In the meantime we are stuck in Hawaii.  I guess if you have to be stuck somewhere, Hawaii is a good place to be stuck.

Pray that we can get a flight. 

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