http://youtu.be/V31M-uP7WTQ
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HAPPY 4TH OF JULY COMIN TO YOU FROM HAWAII!
Anddd...Aloha!
Welcome back to yet another ADVENTUROUS blog! This weekend started off better than normal weekends because Brad came home a day early! He flew back from Lanai on Thursday night rather than Friday night! So we spent Friday together, went to the beach, and some other stuff that I am forgetting..BUT he was home!
Saturday we got up and got on the bus (42 to Ewa Beach), which passes by Kewalo Basin-and that's where we got off. We had already signed up for our Xtreme Parasail Adventure Online at:
http://www.xtremeparasail.com
We signed up for the Deluxe Parasail Adventure which puts you 850 ft in the air for just under $200 for the both of us. Yea, pricy, but what is cheap in Hawaii? Come on. Discount for signing up online too! Remember that!
So we got to Kewalo Basin a bit earlier than scheduled. We checked in, then walked around the harbor, shot some video, THEN the time finally came to get on the boat! This activity actually went by really quick surprisingly. They automatically get you out to the ocean, get your life jackets on, and start!
We were lucky enough to go FIRST! Oh boy!! We were so excited! The 2 boat crew guys are fast; one drives the boat while the other straps you into the harness, they get you all hooked up, and let you fly!
We SOARED 850 ft in the air and YOU KNOW WHAT?! It wasn't scary...at all...hahaha I am totally serious! It was fun going up and getting dipped in the ocean at one point, but...Brad related it to riding a ferris wheel. That's pretty accurate I say! You get up there and it's very quiet and scenic! It was actually relaxing!
That's coming from me, and just to go OFF topic here, our studio apartment that we live in is in the heart of Waikiki, and we have a sliding glass door and windows attached to our balcony right? WELL, the only problem I have is the NOISE you can hear because there's NO sound barrier whatsover (and he smell, but I'll get to that in a sec). I work graveshift half the week so I try and sleep during the day. UGH, there's major construction going on in a complex next to us, there's ALWAYS traffic, sirens, people yelling, dogs barking, birds everywhere, it's LOUD! Night time isn't really much better. It does simmer down a bit, but you can still hear everything!
AS I AM WRITING THIS, it's loud! So they only peace and quiet we get is like, at the STORE. Seriously! Not Walmart FYI, that place is crazy. But if you go to Sam's Club and go to the back of the store...it's nice and quiet. That's weird if you have to go to Sam's Club to get some peace and quiet around here!
The smell is also getting to me. We live behind the Food Pantry, next to dumpsters, homeless people sleep around here/along the canal where I walk Kodiak, and our building's garbage shoot can STINK TO HIGH HEAVENS! I hear that because it's summer it's bad.
ANYWAYS, back to the PARASAILING ADVENTURE, we got along with all the other people on board; everyone was super nice. The boat crew even knew a little japanese for the japanese tourists. (Which make up like 90% of the tourists here no joke!), and we took video for them while they were up there flying!
We drove back to the harbor (waving at a wedding on the way), and that was it! Took like 45 minutes-an hour maybe for the whole thing! Crazy!
After that we went home, and relaxed! Kodiak had gone on a hike with an awesome neighbor who has 2 heelers-one blue and one red :) He was cool enough to take Kodiak along! (I trimmed his dog's nails in return; good trade!)
Later we ALSO went to a church friend's pool party/BBQ, where we swam, ate some yummy bbq, and sorta got a glimpse of the firework show at Ala Moana. There are a lot of tall buildings so we could really only see a corner of it haha. Still, it was nice, and I can't remember the last time I swam in a actual, chlorine pool. It felt so warm and nice!!
That's the end of our July 4th in 2015! Independence Day is my 2nd favorite holiday (right after Christmas!), I LOVE 4th of July! (Last year Brad and I camped at the Palisades in Idaho the night before, fished, cliff jumped, and went to Hawk Fest-a popular Country concert. It was awesome! There's so much to do during the summer; it really doesn't last long enough.
OKAY! That's all I am writing for now! Here's some pics and the video of us parasailing! Be sure to Subscribe to our Youtube channel to see past and future videos!! Many more to come!
VIDEO HERE: http://youtu.be/V31M-uP7WTQ
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