Pilgrim Blog: Day 12

Maria:
Today was the day to relax for the pilgrims going to Boston. Most people slept until ten o’clock except for Steve and me who slept until one o’clock. While most of us hung out playing Mr.Willitts’s favorite game “hit the old guy in the face when he’s not looking” Steve and I went with Mrs. Jazec to go surfing. Surfing in Hawaiian waters is more pleasurable than surfing in the Atlantic because you do not have the incentive to not wipe out and land in a ice cold ocean. At 4:30 everyone joined in the lobby to attend St. Augustine’s for mass, and though the mass was simple without music, it was a good mass all the same. After mass we disputed over the place to have dinner and finally agreed on the food court at the mall which turned out to sell outrageously large portions of food. The prayer service turned out to be a contest to best show a theme found in WYD with props and a speech, the scores were one to five based on how deep and how creative the presentation was. The winner received free ice cream from Fr. Matt and Stephen Collela.
Peter, Joanne, Joanna, Phin, Sean Egan, Sean Longden, Mrs. Shorey-Jones, Mrs. Hebert, and the Willitt’s went to Puka Dog. A local hotdog shop that sold their hotdogs in a special lemon sauce and a relish of your choice of mango, banana, pineapple, starfruit, and other unknown flavors. I first ordered fresh squeezed lemonade which they prepare while you watch and actually put the lemon half they used in to your drink, it was amazing. The hotdogs were delicious and we walked through the late night street market of Hawaii with street performers, carts selling trinkets, and ABC stores. While Phin shopped for a present for his mom, the rest of use discovered a couple of parrots sitting on the rocks that were part of a water fall Mrs. Willitts began trying to get one on her finger and Joanna followed suit. I managed to get an 11 year old bird named Pettie while Peter talked with a white bird named Charlie and Sean Egan and Joanna switched off holding Buddy. The owner was very nice about letting us hold his birds and when Phin was done shopping we left and after a quick stop at the ABC store for t-shirts we made it to the hotel to meet up with Bill, Steve, Charlotte, and the Kevins. We have to have our luggage down by 5am tomorrow in order to catch a plane at 8:10.