The Thoughts of AmyG...: Hawaii x2!

For the second time this year, I was able to visit Honolulu, Hawaii! Once good thing about the stress and low pay of my job, is all the opportunities to travel to different places! This time, I was joined by the other graduate student in my lab. It was an awesome trip! It was her first conference, and since it was really low-key, we got a chance to interact more with the professors who attended.

A and I on the plane!

Quickly getting a pic on the escalator out of the airport. It was a long flight so we don't look awesome...

So what's the first thing we did? Get some Mai Tai's!!!

That evening, we met up with the only other graduate student in our department who was on this trip for dinner. We attempted to go to this sushi place, but the wait list was until next year! The bell hop recommended another place, and, honestly, I think I enjoyed it more than sushi!

I got a lychee martini, and it was pretty good!

I had a seafood gumbo type thing. Yum seafood!

View of Honolulu from our balcony.

It was so nice to get some sun!

I had a flip-flop mishap. My expensive, good for you flip-flops gave me the worst blister! I had to buy some new flip-flops. A little tacky looking, but they worked!

We had to attend a mixer the first night, but we snuck away early for drinks by the pool.

Day 1! A is sooooo excited!

That night we went to a luau. We were at a table with most of our department so it was fun to catch up.

They had an awards ceremony! F (the other student) won a poster award!

One of the post-docs was here with me in May for another conference, and during that time, she found this little restaurant on the beach. After a day of paddle boarding in the sun, we had a great night just hanging out. Fresh seafood, beach at night, good friends!