Going Down Under

Hello, it's me Jera, again. And, in this blog post I am going to tell you about our adventure as we headed to Australia. It all started when we left Hawai'i.
Thank you Rudy and Dora for inviting us. Rudy, my dad's friend, is reason we came to Hawai'i in the first place.
We woke up, finished packing, said our good byes and headed for Hilo International Airport, which is a 3 minute drive from his house. We checked in our bags at the check in counter and headed for our plane.

This is our plane it is a Hawaiian airlines Boeing 717.

When we boarded and went from this....



to this in five minutes

 

We then flew 210 miles from Hilo, Hawaii, to Honolulu, Oahu.

Here is Honolulu!

The crater is an old volcano called Diamond Head.

We stayed in Honolulu for 3 days, or so we thought...
On Wed, Feb, 2 we headed for Honolulu International Airport.

We went through check in fine. Security, a breeze. We boarded our plane on time too!

Here is our plane. It's a Jetstar airways Airbus A330.

 Five minutes before we where scheduled to leave, the PA came on. It said," Attention passengers, I am afraid that we can't go any where due to technical problems in the communication  unit, you are free to move around now and we will get back to you as soon as possible." About 1 hour later the PA came on again," Hello passengers, said the Captain, we are unable to fix the problem and we think it might just be some interference from the hills, so we are going to be taxing to each runway to see if we can get a better connection."

So we taxied out to each of the runways to see if we could get a better a connection. 

We couldn't!

Everyone disembarked from the plane and we were all bused to the Hilton Hotel for the night.

        

Here's the view from our balcony at the Hilton

The next day when we arrived at the airport. The plane had been fixed and we where ready to fly!

We the flew 5,071miles to Sydney, Aus. Then we had to get a connecting flight from Sydney to Brisbane. Here is the lovely sunset as we approached the airport.

 

Sorry for the lack of pictures in the post. They will come, as soon as I get Wi-Fi on my Ipad.

EDIT NOW COMPLETE

 

See you soon, Jera.