Oahu 1

Our extended family went to vacation in Oahu last week. We treated Mom and Dad for this vacation. The planning took some major effort from Yang. She put together my miles from AA and United to get enough tickets to Honolulu. The trickiest part is to figure out the ride to the San Francisco airport. We tried to book the shuttle van to take us there, but the timing was bad. We also tried to find out BART, again there was no BART to the airport on Saturday morning. Finally we decided to drive and park near the airport. We packed six people in my mid-size car. Mom had to crawl in front of the backseat the whole time. But it worked.

The day that we arrived in Honolulu, Yang had a medical emergency and needed to see a doctor. Fortunately Kiser has several local hospitals near Honolulu. We called the hospital and rushed there after unpacking in the hotel. Yang could not be too active for the duration of the vacation. This limited our activity options and made the vacation more relaxing.

Honolulu had some unimpressive Chinese restaurants. We had Dim Sum in the first day but the food was no way near the quality of the Bay Area Chinese restaurant. The shrimp dumplings were dry and had no taste. I could have made better ones.

The living cost of Honolulu must be very high. Yang and I went to Safeway, a supermarket chain that has stores in California, to buy some vegetable. We were shocked at the price tag. Many vegetable and fruit are twice or three times as expensive as the same item in the Bay Area. For example, broccoli sells for three dollars per pound. Green onion is $1.5 a bunch.