This was an exciting weekend as it was my birthday and Valentine's day. Jessica took me out to Carlo and Johnny on Friday for my birthday and my family got together on Saturday at Don Pablo's in Newport for a birthday/going away dinner. I appropriately received some much needed luggage and a pair of 'Rainbows' (both which will be quickly put to use).
This is my fourth trip to Hawaii and I am excited about my stay. The previous trips have been vacations with the family in '95, '97, and '03. This trip will be much longer and is very different as I am here alone and primarily for work.
I walked over to Waikiki beach shortly after I checked in to my place. I ended up snapping some pictures of Diamond Head and took a walk along the beach while making a couple phone calls back home. Before I knew it, the sun was low across the sky and fell behind a ribbon of clouds slightly above the horizon. As I aligned my camera and tapped the button to get a great picture, the phone lost all remaining battery power and shut off! The phone had quite a workout throughout the day with all the texts, picture taking, navigating, music playing, and phone calls it serviced, so I decided to not throw it in the water in anger.
Observing everybody watch the sunset was interesting. As the sun emerged again below the ribbon of clouds just above the horizon, everybody stopped what they were doing and watched the final seconds of the sun as live guitar music played at the adjacent restaurant. There was an audience at the resort pool standing on lounge chairs to get a better view over the tropical greenery and three wedding parties getting a few final pictures just at the right timing. As the guitarist strummed the last chord of the song he was playing, the very last portion of the sun disappeared into the ocean. As that happened, people erupted into applause as if they observed a speech or presentation and then proceeded to carry on with whatever they were previously doing. There should be another chance to get some pictures of a good sunset, but I'm not sure there will be another quite like that.
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