UMTravels

Just an aside, here are great links to a couple of WienerMobile incidents over the last week:

Weiner Mobile In Trouble In Honolulu

and

Weiner Mobile Slams Into House

And now back to our regularly scheduled blog post.

The list for today:

• Pool Time
• Work Time
• Ukulele Search Time

And the result was…..

Pool time — got about an hour and a half of morning tanning in after having a lite breakfast of Korean dumplings at the food court of Ala Moana mall which is up the street before hitting the sale rack at Sears where I got my digital camera for a steal a couple of years ago, then to Hilo Hatties which I thought had closed since they went into bankruptcy, but apparently not — and scored a killer salt and pepper silk long sleeve shirt (looks like my sports coat) marked down from $54.99 to $9.99.

When I was in the lobby this morning I picked up the brochure for the hotel I’m staying in…. this room on this floor. $475 a night. Ouch. I like the $80 a night off of priceline.com. Suddenly I feel better about paying for Internet service.

Next up? The hotel shuttle down to Waikiki beach where it turns out that I stumbled into the 25th Annual Longboard Classic. Surfer boys everywhere.

I’m afraid I made myself sick with too much eye candy. Check out the scrollbar to see some of the thousands…

Next stop was Puapua — an ukulele shop in the Pacific Beach Hotel. Damn, that was the WRONG place to go into. Stunningly beautiful instruments, including a couple of dozen that weren’t for sale, just on display like a museum. After listening to the electric ukulele last night I knew it was going to be bad — remember the rad aluminum skate board I bought in Big Bear, California?

And I bought a soft side case to get it home safely.

An early dinner poolside while working on round two of the daily tanning session. Tonight is cocktails at 8 with Johnnie — and all college friend and ex-Microsoftie. Should be interesting conversation if it’s anything like our half an hour phone conversation this afternoon.

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