Thus Endeth the Epic
Sorry I haven't been posting regularly. Was hella busy working on a project with a deadline for the past week, which I'll blog about in the next day or so. Here's the final chapter of the saga that was Ric and Courtney's Wedding on Oahu (with mom). Don't worry, it's a short one.So we spent most of what was left of Saturday night packing. I think I was packing until about 2am, just so I wouldn't have to worry about it the next day. Unfortunately, I had bought so much crap that getting everything into my bags became some sort of logic puzzle which confounded me for hours. Eventually though, all the clothes, toiletries, Kona coffee, chocolate macadamia nuts and souvenirs all found a way to co-exist peacefully with each other and I was able to sleep.
Thankfully, checking out of the hotel, checking in the rental car, taking the shuttle to the Honolulu airport, and getting on the plane, all went smoothly. My mom slept pretty much the whole flight back, but I couldn't sleep, so watched the in-flight movie Eight Below (better than I thought it'd be, but still not good), and played a lot of Daxter on PSP and some New Super Mario Bros. on DS. When we got back to the mainland, I was struck (as always) about how brown and grey L.A. is. Everything looks so dead. Thoughts of Agent Smith lecturing Morpheus in the first Matrix movie immediately sprang to mind. You know, where he says that the human race is like a virus that spreads uncontrollably, multiplying until all natural resources are consumed before moving on. Man, looking at all the concrete streets and buildings covering the surface of what was once a beautiful coast, choking the life out of it, makes a person believe that just might be the case. And when I got off the plane, everything smelled like dust. It was weird, I guess after a week in Hawaii my nose lining had become moist due to the humid air and was accustomed to the ubiquitous smell of plumeria. Because of this, breathing in that smoggy, dirty air was not pleasant. It wasn't until a couple of days had passed, that my nose lining hardened again and I was no longer bothered by the dry, dusty smell.
Between being able to hang with Courtney and Ric during their special time, experiencing their wedding-on-the-beach, chilling with mom and her side of the family, and just spending time on the island – it was an awesome trip. Going back to work was seriously hard after that. Took me about a week or two to snap out of being on "Hawaii time" and get back into the groove of things. Hopefully, I'll make it back there in the next year or so. Maybe visit one of the other islands. I'm trying to get to Japan within the next couple of years, so I might have to save pennies and not travel until then. We'll see. Hopefully that trip will be as fun and filled with as many good memories as this one was.
Tune in next time to hear about my adventures in San Diego this past weekend at Comic Con.
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