{"id":374,"date":"2010-03-08T19:13:45","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T02:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattfife.net\/wordpress\/?p=374"},"modified":"2012-08-13T11:32:31","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T18:32:31","slug":"day-1-arrival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=374","title":{"rendered":"Day 1 – arrival"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arrived on the plane around noon.\u00a0 Loved the Kona airport – it’s all outdoors\/open air – even the baggage claim.<\/p>\n

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Met with my friends and we went straight to Kahalu’u Beach just south of Kona for snorkling.\u00a0 A nice shallow cove that had a fair number of sea turtles and tons of tropical fish – even puffer fish.\u00a0 It also had a shark after about 2 hours of snorkling fun, so we all headed back in. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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So, sunset was arriving and we headed to the Royal Kona Resort to sit on their most excellent open-air back bar\/patio to enjoy a mai tai and watch the sunset.\u00a0 There was also an awesome old marimba player that sure-enough played ‘The Girl from Ipanema<\/a>‘.\u00a0 An extremely fun and classic start to a great week.<\/p>\n

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Arrived on the plane around noon.\u00a0 Loved the Kona airport – it’s all outdoors\/open air – even the baggage claim. \u00a0 Met with my friends and we went straight to Kahalu’u Beach just south of Kona for snorkling.\u00a0 A nice shallow cove that had a fair number of sea turtles and tons of tropical fish – even puffer fish.\u00a0 It also had a shark after about 2 hours of snorkling fun, so we all headed back in. \ud83d\ude42 \u00a0 So,…<\/p>\n

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