Oh! Wahoo!
While most of the party woke up early to go up to the AF Academy and have breakfast with the 3 cadets from Singapore, I hoong (hunged? hanged?) back to settle the hotel bills and ensure a good luggage count (glamorous job, this). Back on the base in time to catch the Mission briefings, we flew a short hop over to northern California to get a great tour of some Global Hawk UAVs (a first for me -- the base and the mission) and a peak inside one of the operations vans completing a live mission overseas. Cool commanding general and spouse, the base's protocol folks really bent over backwards to show us a good time in a short 2-hour visit.
Had a long flight down to Honolulu next, helped by two more flicks and the rest of my Smithsonian magazine.
It was nice to be in paradise and all (despite the warm humid weather, see 'loving the cold' comment below') but the DV quarters weren't all that distinguished, as I lost count of the number of bugs crawling around, and each room at those 50s-era wait-and-think-about-it flicker-on overhead lights. I want to see in this room NOW. Not whenEVER. But still. It's Hawaii.
The head muckity mucks had a formal gathering planned, leaving the rest of us to explore Waikiki and its Bubba Gump's restaurant, before doing some souvenir shopping and hanging out at Duke's on the beach. Amazing how blue the ocean was, even at 10 o'clock. It seemed to almost glow.
Back at our rooms the Mountain Standard Time equivalent of 2:30 in the morning, I was very glad to not be involved in the early golf game planned the next morning.
Had a long flight down to Honolulu next, helped by two more flicks and the rest of my Smithsonian magazine.
It was nice to be in paradise and all (despite the warm humid weather, see 'loving the cold' comment below') but the DV quarters weren't all that distinguished, as I lost count of the number of bugs crawling around, and each room at those 50s-era wait-and-think-about-it flicker-on overhead lights. I want to see in this room NOW. Not whenEVER. But still. It's Hawaii.
The head muckity mucks had a formal gathering planned, leaving the rest of us to explore Waikiki and its Bubba Gump's restaurant, before doing some souvenir shopping and hanging out at Duke's on the beach. Amazing how blue the ocean was, even at 10 o'clock. It seemed to almost glow.
Back at our rooms the Mountain Standard Time equivalent of 2:30 in the morning, I was very glad to not be involved in the early golf game planned the next morning.
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