Flying Back Home - Jan 13th, 2007

We visited Sugar Museum on the last day of our trip and spent the whole afternoon in the mall. Our flight would leave Maui at 8:00 pm and then we were supposed to hop on a direct flight from Honolulu to Denver.

We got to the airport at 5:30 pm, returned the rental car and checked in our bags. The flights between Maui and Honolulu are scheduled like hourly buses. We were able to fit in an earlier flight that departed at 6:30 pm.

We dined at the airport in Honolulu and found out everything we were served were decorated with colorful little umbrellas. Umbrella is a big deal for this trip. While Biajee and I toured around Florida, we always got drinks with little umbrellas in them. It's a big tropical and beach thing. Yet we finally got satisfied with our lust for umbrellas on the last day of the trip in the airport.

The gift shops at Honolulu offered much wider varieties of products and duty-free items, mainly because Japanese people visit Hawaii a lot and they like to buy, buy and buy, especially alcohol and cigarettes.

We were assigned separate seats at Kahului airport on the next sector. We had to beg the ground staff at the United check-in counter in Honolulu to reassign to adjacent seats.

The monitor system of the aircraft was broken after we were all seated in the plane. We didn't take off until 3 am and we were all exhausted. Poor Arnold could not sleep well at all. We do not like United Airlines. They deserved to go bankruptcy. Both their ground and inflight crews are rude and careless. Having worked for the airlines for 3 years in my prior life, I despise all the American Airlines. They charge the most expensive price and offer the lousiest service. We do not recommend airline stocks either because they do not care about shareholders' equity at all. Their main concerns are taking other people's money and mending their holes.