Back in Hawaii day 1

Its sort of ironic that my last posting occurred when I was leaving Hawaii and heading back to the northeast and here I am writing again in Hawaii. We arrived on Friday at 3pm and took a very expensive cab ride to our hotel: http://www.sheraton-waikiki.com/. Due to the economic climate we got a ridiculously low rate to stay here. We got a free room upgrade because I have platinum status with Starwood Hotels. We dropped off our stuff and promptly headed to get ramen at http://www.menchankotei.com/index_E.asp which was great. We quickly fatiqued by 5 pm and took a brief nap and then then met up with my buddy Raymond and had a low key evening at his place after taking a very nice walk along waikiki beach.