What a long, long trip it is to get to Hawaii. It's hard to give the distance much thought (after all Hawaii is in a box right next to Alaska and California on most maps), but sitting in a crammed coach seat sure makes you aware of just how far you actually are going. The flights themselves were actually pretty smooth, though, and I was able to get a lot of reading done. I finished the most recent "entertainment" book I had been reading called Ballad of the Whiskey Robber whichs chronicles the account of one of Hungary's more famous folk heroes, Atilla Ambrus. It is a pretty entertaining story about a Romanian refugee turned electrician/pen salesman, turned pro hockey "goalie", turned Translyvanian pelt smuggler, turned post office / bank robber. Though, Atilla is a criminal through and through, I found it very hard not to sympathize with his plight at times, but in the end he definitely reaped what he sowed - though the truthfulness with which he handled his situation after capture is commendable, especially in this day and age.
I got through the flight with the help of Whiskey Robber, Batman Begins (which used nearly all of my laptop battery), a couple of re-runs of King of Queens and I love Lucy (the airline movies were Lassie and Good Night and Good Luck - neither really interested me), and reading some of the lesson manual from the Sunday School class on Proverbs that I am soon to be teaching.
We arrived in Lihue 8:00 pm local time, which was about 12:00 according to my internal clock, and I was pretty beat. We tried eating some dinner before bed, but I think my body was already crashing, and I could barely finish my soup and salad. Sleep came quickly for me, but unfortunately so did the alarm clock ...
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