ALOHA - 18th DECEMBER

We woke up in the sunny and worm morning. First we were posing a bit with the lei’s we’ve got and then went to the market. This time I took the camera with me!

The main market is located near the football stadium (American football of course).

Even though we were there during the week it was quite colorful and alive. I loved it and I will definitely go back during the weekend also because prices are much lower that anywhere else. But until than here are some shots…

After a couple of hours we went through Honolulu. Here’s a quick look…

…and these are student dorms...

We finally got to Waikiki and I immediately went into the sea. It was a long way in I have to say ‘cause I was already quite far from the shore but the water was still below my waist – for those who don’t know me – I’m rather small…

So there in this shallow water I started talking to an American. From Ohio he said. He was, naturally, acting really smart but I was not surprised when he didn’t know anything about Slovenia and Yugoslavia. According to him we were a part of USSR. So like many times before I repeated the history and tried to show him that we are a part of Europe. I luckily managed to do so and he started talking about Europe. He said he’d like to go there but that he’s afraid ‘cause there’s a lot of Anti-Americanism in Muslim countries – I’m not sure if he really thought that European countries are Muslim countries or he just mixed it all up… But that’s not important so I ignored this comment and just affirmed that there’s quite a lot of Anti-Americanism in Europe and that it’s logical. But at the same time I pointed out that he shouldn’t be worried about it ‘cause Europeans are hospitable. But he was still looking at me with skepticism – I got a feeling he thinks people in Europe would gladly kill him if he’d set a foot on that ground. So besides the weather that was it. (Have in mind that I mentioned in the beginning that he was American – that says everything.)

On Waikiki you can see all sorts of people. Japanese who are afraid of the sun…

… men in white socks…

…kids plying with the send…

…and treasure hunters (but that’s another story)…

We stayed on Waikiki until the not very beautiful sunset and took the night walk around…