Gary Vaynerchuk (Vay-ner-chuk) and the great people at Wine Library put on a nice podcast called Wine Library TV where Gary tastes several wines for us, describes the nose & the taste and gives us his opinion of the wines in question.

As a benefit to his fans (above and behind the show itself), Gary and his staff would send out, for free, a Wine Library TV wristband. The only price is to take and send in a picture. I cheated and sent a picture of my dogs instead. But it was cute. I hope he likes it.

If you like wine or want to learn more about wine, check out the podcast.

Home Sweet Home!

Holly’s dad just dropped us off at home. Thanks, again, Glenn.

So, our flight from Dallas/Fort Worth sucked. It was just a crappy way to end a crappy travel day (well, 22 hours). We left our hotel yesterday at 4:30 PM (10:30 PM ET). We just got home at 8:30 PM ET. After the events of Part I of our trip home, we were hoping for a nice, quiet flight. WRONG!!
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We sat on our plane at the gate at the Honolulu airport for 3 hours with infrequent updates like, “We’re on the phone with maintenance here and in Tulsa working out the problem with the fuel pump. We’ve tried several things and have several more things to try. Sorry for the slow updates, it takes a while.” Wonderful. At the 3 hour mark, we were told it was going to be at least another hour and we could deboard the plane. I took that opportunity to relax with a Long Island Iced Tea (or two). Holly just paced.
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Today is our last day in paradise. The Halekulani was very gracious and gave us a 3 PM check out time! We were able to go see Pearl Harbor and the USS Arizona Memorial and sit by the pool for a couple hours without having to worry about our luggage.

We woke up early this morning (not knowing that we would be able to check out late) and packed. Then, we waited for the V.I.P. shuttle to Pearl Harbor. After dropping some people off at the airport (that was a surprise), we made it to Pearl Harbor. The line for tickets to the Memorial wrapped around a courtyard and was very, very long. But it moved pretty fast.
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Today started with a drive to the airport. We were sad to leave the Waikoloa Marriott, but we have a date with Pearl Harbor. We got through security and had a quick breakfast before flying to Oahu (Waikiki).

While booking, we were given two choices on hotel. I said, “Hey! It’s our last night… let’s splurge” so we chose the Halekulani. What a good choice. This is an amazing hotel and the people are just fantastic.
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