8.38am We really made the early bird special at Denny's, we even beat the oldies, who appeared en masses just as we were leaving. I had te banana foster French bread skillet, which is almost as much of mouthful as the breakfast itself. Neil plumped for the ultimate omelette which had a a lot of peppers, not sure it was ultimate in a man vs food type of way tho. We are checking out in a sec so that we can swap rooms, out by 12 back in again after 4pm. So hopefull...

We've changed rooms. Finally, got the upgrade I was promised and moved up 10 floors. The view is definitely better from up here, weird how just a few floors can make all the difference. I can now see the crater with only a few hotels in the way and I can see the sea, and some of the sandy beach. It is weird being up his high, but it does make for more interesting. Hewing than the TV. The bathroom is smaller, in a ' can't fully open the door as the toilet is on t...

Okay American roads are confusing. When we were driving to Dole, the turning for Wal-Mart appeared to be 8B, but on the way back there is no 8B. In fact the nearest junction is 10. It appears that the junctions have different numbers depending in whether you are going up or down the road. So driving back we pull off at 10 and try the side roads, unfortunately said side road ends up taking us in the opposite direction. Luckily, there are two big cream tower blocks...

After the crater, we decided to go and visit the Dole Pineapple plantation in the middle of the island. We visited te gift shop on our last visit, but disn'r have time for the maze, gardens or train. So as he weather isn't looking too good today, it seemed like an excellent idea. The sat nav had other ideas, it was in no mood to e sending us anywhere, so it was back to road signs and paper maps. Whih is interesting when ou can't pronounce any of he road and place...

We've climbed the crater, didn't find he geocache, but climbing the crater is probably achievement enough. Glad we did it early in he morning on a cool day, as we are pretty sweaty and I would hate to think how sweaty we would have been if we had done his yesterday. The views from the op are good, you look down over Waikiki and up and down the coast. You can also see Maui I think though the haze on the sea. We needed to stop a couple of times on the way up as th...