We left Utah on Tuesday, Oct 15th headed for the Marshall Islands via Honolulu. We spent the night in Hawaii, and then boarded the plane early the next morning. About an hour and a half into our flight, the pilot told us some kind of indicator light was on in the cockpit and the plane had to turn around and go back to Hawaii. Bummer! Apparently it's something that has to be reset before the plane can take off again, and they don't have that ability in the Majuro airport. So..... United put us up for the night in the Pacific Beach Hotel right down on Waikiki Beach! We had a relaxing day walking along the beach, eating, and wandering around the shops. Unfortunately, our luggage was already maxed out weight wise, so we couldn't really do any shopping. But we had fun looking. We ended up being "stranded" in Honolulu for TWO days. What a shame. If we would have known that the first night we could've scheduled some fun activity/tour, but we had to keep checking with the airport as they kept changing our flight. Oh, well, I know no one is going to feel sorry for us. How lucky can you get? It did seem weird walking around Honolulu in shorts with our name tags on.
We finally flew out Friday morning, which changed to Saturday as we crossed the International Dateline before landing. The Marshall Islands are one day ahead, less six hours. As we stepped off the plane we felt the heavy humidity and the tropical temperature of the islands. Here begins our adventure!
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| view from the window |
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| first sighting of the Majuro atoll |
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| Majuro, Marshall Islands |
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| rainy landing! |
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| Majuro airport, with our shell necklaces |
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Welcome to the Marshall Islands!
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