Aloha!

Aloha fromWaikiki beach! Just a quick update! Since I last blogged we have spent a night in Santa Cruz , we were a little disappointed with Monteray and Santa Cruz, weather wasn't great, we even had some rain but did spend the best 75 cent we've ever spent on the 85 year old Big Dipper rollercoaster in Santa Cruz! After 5pm the boardwalk returns to 1908 and all rides are 75cent !! We hopped on thinking it would just be a little up and down rollercoaster but turned out to be a fully fledged scream / laugh / bounce out of the seat 2 minutes. We haven't laughed so much in the last month as we did in those 2 minutes. We calmed ourselves down with a little sky ride in a ski-liftesque apparatus while looking down at the beach and the dead seal we sunbathed beside earlier in the day - unfortunately there is a lack of food for hte seals and a lot of them have been dying recently.
On from Santa Cruz we drove up Highway 1 along the Big Sur, as the guidebook says the beaches are like golden pearls strung along the coast, very scenic and definitely to be done in a convertible next time! We arrived back into San Francisco and moved back into Hotel Frank! Thank you again SO much for everything Frank if you are reading this! Although it was Tuesday night Jo and myself decided it was time to give our 14 dollar heels from the classy Payless Shoe Source an outing! We had bought them in San Diego when we were having a 'we look like knackers and are sick of wearing the same clothes and flip flops every day kinda day'! However then we realised we didn't really have anywhere to wear them, hence we insisted we go to somewhere in San Francisco that heels would look the norm! Pretty much everywhere else we hang out , bikini and boardshorts is the dress code!So on went the heels -a very alien feeling and then we went in search of some classy establishments, unfortunately the Tonga bar , which is renowned was closed on Tuesday nights so we hit up some other places and looked very at home in our heels sipping on our basil concoction cocktails (seemingly these are number 5 on the list of top 100 things to eat and drink in San Francisco! We later ticked number 2 off the list aswell by having an Apple Fritter - the hour run we did the next morning didn't even begin to tackle those calories!!
Spent our last day in San Francisco in Napa Valley wine tasting which was a very nice way to end an amazing time in California. Beautiful weather and a really nice drive up through all the vineyards. Tasted some really nice wines which have restored my faith in American wines! Spent our last night drinking more wine and some very classy appetizers on Spencer's rooftop (we moved to Hotel Spencer for our last night (thank you Spencer!) Had to do some James Bondesque moves to get onto his roof , but the view of the city was worth it and the view into the neighbour's bathrooms from above!!

And so here we are in Hawaii - spending the next 2 nights in Honolulu at Waikiki Beach where it's all going on and then heading for some R&R up on the North Shore before returning here for one more night before an early flight out on Thursday. From what we have seen so far Hawaii is beautiful, although I'd love to go explore all the islands that is going to have to wait for another trip! We are staying in a really chill hostel here and off on a tour organised by them on Saturday and then another tour to Pearl Harbour on Sunday and then we have booked ourselves in to go swimming with sharks in a cage on Wednesday - can't wait!!! We will let you know how that goes!! Hope everybody enjoying their summer, we are!!! Love ya'll xo

P.S. we forgot to put in last blog that we have taken up a new sport - goldfish racing!! Yes on Wednesday nights this is the done thing in San Diego (well in the bars we frequented anyway!!) However our fish 'Eireann' was not so successful so we may return to trying to master surfing!! It burns more calories and has slightly more street cred!!We will try post some pictures of our racing soon. Haven't got pics up o blog yet as have to do it one at a time and it's a bit of a pain, we will keep putting on Facebook for the moment and try get more efficient at the blog upload !!