First 24 hours

I was looking forward to a very restful vacation and the 1st 24 hours have been anything but that. My flight 609 out of Chicago was delayed due to the storms on the east coast. That messed up my connection in SFO. I had to jump on a trip tp PDX and try to go ORD/PDX/SFO/KOA. When I got to PDX all the trips had filled up, the CSR told me on Friday afternoons you can't get a trip up and down the west coast, even if they look open they fill up. (commuters) I was looking at the departure board in PDX and I saw a Delta flight to HNL and had to go out front to ticketing and buy a ZED fare.($75.00) The back through security and just made the trip. When I got to HNL of course all the HNL to KOA trips were long gone. So I got a room at the Best Western and called it a night. I woke up about 0130 and turned on the news just in time to hear about the TSUNAMI heading to Hawaii! Last thing I want is to get caught on HNL so I headed out for breakfest and then to the airport to catch my flight or an earlier trip if I could. My resort on KOA is on top of a hill so I felt safe as long as I got there. After a delay due to Tsunami re-fuel (During the delay I found $60.00 bucks! I Tried to hand it in to the GO-Hawaii CSR and she just said keep it) Anyway, after the delay for the duel fuel load, in case they could not fuel on Kona we were off. Picked up the rental car and off I went to my resort. On the way I pulled off to the side of the road with 100's of others to watch for the "Wave" . They said it would hit at 1100 but we waited until 1230 and then people just started to disapate. The Tsunami that never came, I guess thats a good thing but part of me wanted to see it. ( I will post some pictures tomorrow night )
Checked in at my awesome resort and took a nap before heading to the pool where I am now. Time to find some food and drink, keep warm everyone, until tomorrow night. Cheers!