What is the best way to spend a 12 hour flight?
We went in with a half dozen devices and a single mission: survive without getting impatient or short. In the end, we only relied on the in flight entertainment - Kelsey watched all three Avengers movies back to back (perfectly balanced, as all flights should be), Jake watched a bunch of other stuff that had come out in the past year. The cabin was dark and they had a pair of separated seats to themselves, thank God. Jake rates the flight experience a 7/10 because Kelsey had to give him her pizza flatbread and cookies (pro) but Annhilation wasn’t as good as Barrack Obama said it was. Kelsey would probably rate it more like a 6. Flight entertainment: good. Having to eat the turkey out of a sandwich because there weren’t any gluten free options: not as good.
Our first real realization upon arriving was that Hawai’i is unlike any of our previous vacation destinations. Usually we venture toward cities in countries previously unexplored by us, which still provides for a similar speed to our day-to-day lives. Hawai’i, however is not like that. Last night, when looking for a dinner destination, we realized that only two of the more than a dozen restaurants nearby were open. On a Saturday night. And the places that were open all closed around 9, which is unfathomable coming from a place like New York. When we landed at the airport in Maui this morning we were surprised to realize that there were a total of 3 Uber cars active on the island at the time and that Lyft hasn’t made its way to the island yet at all.
…we just had a conversation about whether it was the way that last paragraph was written that sounded bougey and entitled, or whether we’re just actually bougey and entitled.
The best and worst thing about our hotel was that it was so close to the airport it was practically a terminal. This made the morning flight easy, but also gave the strange impression that the airport surrounded us, with warehouses and unwalkable streets stretching out in every direction. The driver of a car we got who kept laughing at the fact we waited 10 minutes for a 5 minute ride explained: really, we should be in Waikiki if we want to do touristy things. Point taken. The hotel also gave us 2 beautiful twin beds. Jake gives the hotel a 4 out of ten because it had a charming and redundent pool (pro?) but it had no internet (major con). Overall Jake gives O’ahu a Wayne Knight on the Jurassic Park meter, but a 10/10 on the nice Uber driver scale.
