Baggage guidelines

Size and weight guidelines:
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What you can and can't check/carry on:
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Be sure to leave your Billy Clubs, Nunchakus, Spear Guns, Sabers, and Gel Shoe Inserts at home!


WOO HOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

Permission slips again!

Get the permission slip that says you can be driven by one of us - as soon as possible. If you can't get one by Friday, let me know and I can email it to you.

Sorry! the paper work is endless. :(

Tentative Schedule

General notes:
Hawaii Time is three hours behind Pacific Time
Hotel phone number: (808) 935-9361
Hawaiian Airlines phone number: (800) 367-5320

Thursday 29 March

• World's Longest Day
• Get to our gate at LAX Terminal 2 by 6.30 a.m.!
  
• HA1 29Mar LAX HNL 825AM 1105AM
  HA260 29Mar HNL ITO 210PM 301PM
  
• Get vans, check in, rest
• Uncle Bob will chap. a group (that wants to go) to KHOP

Friday 30 March

• Day of Rest
• Walmart Stockpile
• Malling About (opt)
  
• Hilo Hattie's (opt)
• Ken's House of Stinkeye (definite)
  

Saturday 31 March

• Pe'e Pe'e and Akaka, and that cool place where we swing on ropes
• Hiking today so dress like it!
  
• (medium day)
  

Sunday 1 April

• Kona (Snorkeling, Shopping, and Dinner)
• Snorkel stuff: Jack's Diving Locker, (808) 329-7585
• bring a change of clothes so you don't smell up Kona after we snorkel
• shopping in Kona! ;)
  
• (long day)
  

Monday 2 April

• Mauna Kea Beach & Waimea (Kona side)
• bring lots of sunscreen
  
• (medium day)
  

Tuesday 3 April

• Mauna Kea Daya!!! (Observatory Day)
  
• # drink lots of water today to prep for tomorrow
  # don't have a big dinner
  # wear sunscreen
• (long, exhausting day alert!)
  

Wednesday 4 April

• Hilo Market & shopping (AM)
• Cafe 100 for lunch
• Optional Uncle Bob afternoon trip... somewhere?
• (kickback day)
  

Thursday 5 April

• Volcanoes
  # Kilauea
  # Lava tubes
  # Lunch
  # Devil's Throat
  # Big giant hike to see liquid hot magma and get in trouble burning sticks because it "ticks off Pele"
  
• (long, exhausting day alert!)

Friday 6 April

• 'Imiloa Astronomy Center in the AM
  
• Meaner Wiener?
  
• Black Sand afternoon
  
• Ken's for last dinner
  
• (easy day)
  

Saturday 7 April

• World's... sniff.... Saddest... Day :(
• Get to Hilo airport by 8 a.m.
  # HA121 7Apr ITO HNL 904AM 951AM
  # HA2 7Apr HNL LAX 105PM 920PM
  # Getting exLAX is your problem ;) Make SURE your ride is there.
  

THINGS to BRING

All these are suggestions but don't come crying to me if you think you don't need it now only to realize later the amazing wisdom of the Big Kahuna. There is a "big old fatty Walmart" up the road if you do forget anything. Hilo is a quiet place, but it ain't dead!

For Falls & Hiking
whatever hiking stuff you think you need (e.g. boots)
something with DEET in it (for skeeters)
change of clothes if you fall in and don't feel like walking around all day wet (sugg)
water shoes (sugg)

Volcanoes
Long pants for the hike to the lava
Heavy shoes (ask Whitney)
Gloves (sugg: the lava hurts bad if you fall on it)

Mauna Kea
WARM CLOTHING
flashlight
water bottle

Kona Day
change of clothes (after snorkeling we go out and shop and eat)

Beach Day
crudload of suntan lotion
change of clothes (sugg) or stink like beach the whole way back

What to do for the next 4 weeks:

4 weeks til hawaii: start getting SUPER excited about the trip and how much fun its going to be. Also, start fake'n'bake'n if you really want to impress someone with your tan before we even step foot on the Hawaiian beaches. ;)
3 weeks til hawaii: start doing extra chores around the house to earn extra spending money from the folks. Also, don't forget to sign up for which van you want to be in whilst we're in hawaii. HINT: choose wisely. and even if you don't end up in the van you want to be in because you're sicker than a dog and a chaperone doesn't want you near her kids, you're still probably in the right place (ie: you can still get to hang with the future-love-of-your-life. or maybe not)
2 weeks til hawaii: start compiling a list of everything you need to bring. its harder than you think to remember EVERYTHING you're going to need to live for 10 days in a foreign place. Also, make sure you have a ride to and from the airport. airports [especially after a pretty long flight] are not the place to be begging your friend (or friend's parents) for a ride back to t-town.
1 week til hawaii: start getting your suitcase together. (im serious!) don't wait until the last minute to do it Because You Will Forget Something Important. Also, continue to get super excited. Finally, leave yourself room in your [hopefully packed] suitcase for souvenirs. Airports have weight limits and you don't want to end up wearing everything you own on the flight back (or begging your friends to stuff all the extras into Their bags) because your suitcase was too heavy with dashboard hula girls and Hilo Hattie t-shirts
1 day til hawaii: double check your suitcase's contents (don't forget the toothbrush!). set the alarm for eeeaaaarly (our flight LEAVES at 8:40am). email Mr. Ritter any last minute questions. Get ready for the time of your life in Hawaiian paradise !!! :)