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So, as best as I can figure it (and I had to do a lot of figuring) there is a six-hour time difference between Hawaii and the East Coast of the United States. Fun Fact: Hawaii does not observe daylight savings time, a fact that made the calculation a little more difficult.

Day 1: After we landed, Jen and I received a lei greeting. Evidently we hadn't paid for one, but the lei woman had some extras and thought that we "looked like we were on our honeymoon." Then it was on to the Dollar Rent-A-Car place to pick up our Jeep Wrangler, which had been given away to someone else. However, we ended up getting a free upgrade to a four-door Jeep Wrangler. (this should be a link to what it looks like: http://www.backcountryjournal.com/bcjbumpersorder.html. Ours is bright red.)

By the way, from now on, Jen and I have decided to say that we're on our honeymoon. People are so nice to you and love to give you free stuff, upgrades, and what not. (The hotel is providing a free bottle of champagne and has another free gift for us that we haven't picked up yet).

After we finally got our Jeep, we drove back to the Sheraton Kauai Resort (http://www.sheraton-kauai.com). The drive to the hotel is AMAXING!!!! There are mountains all around you that just seem to jump up out of the ground out of nowhere. Everything is so green and the flowers are ridiculously beautiful.

Our room over looks the garden pool and there's a ton of flowered trees and other vegetation right outside our front door. I think that this vegetation is the permanent home to the first visitor that we received in our room-a little brown lizard (don't worry there are pictures, I just can't post them from my BlackBerry). I was able to chase him out of the room. And no, he didn't leave his tail behind him when he left (if you didn't know, some lizards can do that as a defense mechanism. See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMGg_jdRbcc)

After we settled into our room, we went to a small little restaurant on the resort property and had pizza with pulled pork and pineapple. The restaurant was right on the ocean, and, although we couldn't see much of the ocean, we could see the white caps as the waves crashed. After a full day of travelling (16 hours by my count), the sound of the waves nearly put us to sleep. In fact, Jen is stilll asleep as I type this!

That's all for now!

Love,

Jason (and Jen)
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