Cruise - Day 21- Kona, Hawaii
Saturday, October 3rd, 2009Lets just call this Walmart day, shall we? 
With the boys starting to get agitated, we decided to spend the morning on the ship and just take it easy for our last day in Hawaii. In the afternoon we got on a tender and then jumped on a courtesy bus to Walmart. We needed to restock on some supplies, Ange still had some shopping bug to exorcise, and we were sorta curious to see what all the fuss was about.
Maybe the Kona Walmart is small, but I wasn’t particularly blown away by the size. I was expecting incomprehensibly large, but really it was just like a super-sized Big W. Somehow though we managed to spend US$250, of which I was responsible for about $60. The prices weren’t really blowing me away until I found the alcohol isle: 1.75 litres of Smirnoff for $20, the same sized Tanqueray for $35. The only downside was that I expected the alcohol to be ‘put aside’ for us by the ship’s crew - if I had known we’d be able to take it back to our room I would have picked up another bottle for the trip home
Getting on the courtesy bus with the pram was a hassle as it was, so after we were loaded up with shopping bags there was no way it was going to happen. We could see the ship from the carpark and Ange had a decent idea about the route the bus had taken, so we decided to walk. Despite me being mildly worried (we were cutting it fine to get back to the ship before it left) and exhausted (Ange’s knee meant I carried most of the stuff) it was a really nice walk. We made it back to the wharf in time to catch the second-last tender.
As I mentioned after Honolulu, both of us felt really at ease and at home in Hawaii. We’ll have to make it back to the US at some stage and see if the rest of the country has the same effect.