Kaui

We woke up early to a thunderstorm and a weather forecast of heavy rain and flooding for at least 3 days, so we decided to pull the plug and try to change our flights to get home early. It was pretty stressful as I was trying to get new flights and do reports for work, which didn't work well as I was having password trouble. Eventually I was able to get the international flights changed using Facebook messenger, so then changed our Hawaiian airlines flight back to Oahu. This little exercise cost $600 for the QANTAS flights and $60 for the Hawaiian. We packed and left about 5pm to get to the airport for the 7:30pm flight. (It turned out that we also lost the 4 days of accommodation).

The ocean was rough and dirty brown

We had to change terminals in Honolulu. After everything we definitely didn't want to risk missing the flights, so we decided to just sit it out in the airport until our flight at 8:30am in the morning. The airport security came over to check us and the few others who were trying to get a little a sleep on pretty uncomfortable seats. They took our names and passport numbers. All night they played quite soothing Hawaiian music (although Darryl wasn't impressed with it). It was worth it to get on the flight as we learned that 90% of QANTAS international flights were being axed until May, and we think we are on one of the last out of Hawaii (in fact the flight crew told us we were on the second last QANTAS flight to Sydney).