Waikiki's Series of Unfortunate Events

this weekend we spent in Waikiki, our adventure was hilarious. Friday (20th) Christina, Rachelle, Hayley, Britnee, and I all hopped on the bus headed to the Ala Moana mall in Waikiki. we were chatting when the bus came to an abrupt halt. our bus driver had just hit a car, ha of course we would be on that bus. we got off the bus and walked to another bus stop while being led by a crazy guy saying "I'm a christian man but I'm going to start swearing soon". we were rushed onto another packed bus and found our seats toward the back. we didn't realize until we were seated that we were located in the senior citizens section. everyone back there was old, "I'm between 75 years and death". 3 elderly couples from Canada were here on vacation and they were quite a hoot. we talked with them all the way to Waikiki. one of the guys, in regards to swimming in the ocean said, "I'm not getting in that water, whales have sex in there" as you can probably tell we had a funny time. 

when we reached the mall we started off on the trek to our hotel, The Holiday Inn. we checked into our hotel and got ready for the beach. Christina, Hayley, Rachelle, and i , to save room in our backpacks, didn't bring towels so we had to use the white hotel towels. we didn't want to look suspicious with our obvious towels so we thought the stairs would be a good idea. i didn't realize before i opened the stair door that it said, "burglar alarm will sound when open". of course i would set off the alarm in the hotel, Britnee took off running and i was laughing and trying to not look like a fugitive. we quickly walked barefooted to the beach and laid on our stolen towels. after the beach we got ready to hit the streets. it was Rachelle's 21st birthday so we went to P.F. Chang's to celebrate. real food never tasted to good. we rushed through the end of dinner so we could catch the firework show on the beach. the fireworks were really cool, but only lasted 5 minutes. we started walking towards Cold Stone for some birthday cake remix when a group of guys tapped Christina on the shoulder and said, "my friend thinks your loud".... army boys ha. next stop was Macy's and we spent about an 1 1/2hours  putting  on makeup, trying on shoes, spraying perfume, and posing as manikins. by the end we were ready to head back to our hotel. it was a typical girls party of laughing at crazy pictures, massage train, true laugh, foot scrubs, and more. we were told once more that we were loud by the front desk. probably because at one point we all had jumped on Rachelle when Hayley and Christina fell into the space between the wall and bed laughing.

Saturday (21st) morning. we went to IHOP for breakfast, we were so hungry. a magician came to our table and showed us some magic trick, he even bent a steel fork with his mind powers. our meals come out and we scarfed them down. they even sang happy birthday, off key, to Rachelle. we laughed as we headed to the beach because we realized that we had no towels so we would either have to stand or get really sandy. Christina and i finally made our sandcastle that turned into a pyramid. we ended up laying on clothes and backpacks instead of the intrusive sand. we all fell asleep on the beach, it was so relaxing. we packed up and headed back to the Ala Moana mall. this time we spent some time in the mall walking around. we stepped into Sephora and tried on some lip plumper gloss and our lips were swollen and on fire, no pain no gain. we shopped around some more gawking at new clothes until our bus was scheduled to come. the bus ride was just as eventful going home as it was coming to. the bus didn't get in an accident, but there was a man following some poor Chinese lady on the bus and she let everyone know. we finally reached Laie, and had to stop at Foodland to pick up 3 boxes of brownies for our relief societies visiting teaching bribe. 

later that night, after making brownies at Britnee's, we went to culture night on campus. culture clubs perform a dance or skit for all, the Hawaiian and Samoans performances were the best! i particularly liked the Samoans most, you could feel the family honor and pride they have in their culture. it was an adrenaline rush watching then give off such vigor and love for representing something that is very close to their hearts. we knew after that we were going to have a good night sleep after an awesome day.