Day 16 | August 28th

What a day we have had today. Our flight from Las Vegas to Los Angeles was at 10.10am and we had to drop the rental car off first so we decided we needed to be leaving the hotel at 7am to allow enough time. Lucky we did!

We were up at 6am and out the door on time and found the rental car drop off easy enough with the GPS and the car was cleared and all done in a matter of minutes. We then headed downstairs to get the shuttle to the terminal which was 7 minutes away. Our tickets said terminal 1 and we were also directed there by the shuttle staff.

When we arrived we could not see any United Airline check in desks and upon asking we're advised the UA had moved to terminal 3 last week. Woohoo!

So, we had to walk some distance and get an airport shuttle to terminal 3 and then walk some more to get to the UA check in. Finally we made it and then the self check in machines weren't working for me. A lovely staff member tried again for us and helped us check in all the way to Hawaii.

We then had a 35 minute flight to Los Angeles in a very tiny plane. When we landed we went straight to gate 60 as it was quite a walk, to where our next flight would be leaving in about 1.5 hours.

When almost everyone was on the plane we were advised that the UA computer system was down and we couldn't close up and take off until the computers were back up and they could check we had the correct fuel for the number of passengers etc. After waiting 2 hours they let us off the plane to get something to eat and soon after the system was all back up and running. We left 1.5 hours late and arrived in Hawaii at about 5.30pm and gained 3 hours with the time difference.

We finally arrived and made our way by taxi to the hotel. We had booked to stay at the Sheraton Waikiki but there were some issues with Denis and Cameron's rooms so they upgraded us all to the Royal Hawaiian, their superior adjacent hotel complex. We still got our ocean view room, balcony and a bigger room which was suppose to have two double beds but when we got to the room there was just a king bed. So, we had to call reception and they gave us a trundler bed for Ashleigh at no extra cost.

As soon as we dropped our bags at the room with Denis we meet up with everyone down at the Mai Tai bar for a much, much needed drink. Ashleigh was so happy to see everyone and apparently Paddy had been asking when Ashleigh was going to arrive for days.

We then headed straight to dinner at Yard House, which was a very loud bar and restaurant and was a bit noisy for easy conversation. Scott and Cam had these enormous Stella yard glass drinks....two each.

Afterwards Cam, Catherine and Paddy came back to our room for drinks and a catch up. Ashleigh and Paddy both went to sleep and we sat on the balcony chatting until about midnight. We all went to bed very, very tired as it was a very, very long day.