Honeymoon Part 1: Fantasy Island

When we got to the Big Island, Hawaii, we stayed at a place called the Hilton Waikaloa Village which I tend to refer to as Fantasy Island. Take one look at the pictures I put up online and you will see why. We ended up staying in a room on the far side of the complex which required either a ten minute walk (if you walked quickly) or you had to wait for a tram/monorail… Christine and I could never decide what to actually call it. And even when we got to the area of our room we were still lost and needed to ask for help.

Once we settled into the room and slathered ourselves in sun block we set out to explore the place. To say we were impressed as we walked around past the numerous pools, bridges, custom lagoon, and beautiful ocean views would be an understatement. Although, I think when we walked past the dolphin pool and watched 5-6 dolphins swim around right there in front of us we truly reached blown away status! We kept trying to take it all in because we knew we would probably never stay at a place like this again.

One thing we did find funny was our pineapple gift basket, which contained what we can only assume was a fresh Hawaiian pineapple. You would have thought that someone there would have realized that in order to enjoy a pineapple one needs a decent knife (which was not provided). Maybe it’s our fault for not including that in our luggage;-) “It’s for Pineapples I swear!!”

I will be writing more about our fun on our honeymoon so stay tuned… in the meantime there is a new link off to the side to “My PIctures Page”. I will be putting links to all pictures that we put online on that page. And just to be helpful here is a link:

http://www.thickasabrick.net/pics