ridiculous place!!! I went to ask the girl on reception if I could use the deposit box to store our passports and important things, simple enough question you would have thought, seeing as there was a notice up with the rules on how to use these boxes. You would have thought I’d asked her to build a space ship, it seemed far beyond her comprehension as to how these boxes worked - errrr simple love, you give me the box, I put my things in it and you lock it up and give me the key!!! No couldn’t be this simple could it, 2 phone calls later the sourpuss finally realised how to operate the boxes!!! She was the most miserable reception girl I have ever come across in all of my life, she was thick as and rude as. A sudden air of mild depression came over us and there was that all to familiar look of, arrrrhhh what are we doing here!!! But here we were and there wasn’t a thing we could do about it! We spent the rest of the day mulling around, checked out the local area which was OK but there wasn’t too much

stuff to do.

The next day we decided to head off into Hilo, the largest town on the island. We got the expensive shuttle bus with the very bizarre shuttle times and thought we’d have a day out and away from the hostel to cheer us up. On the way into town we heard from Doug the man who owned the place how it was hard working 24/7/365 in the tourism industry!!! We weren’t really quite sure what he did to take up so much of his time and it was quite hard not to burst out laughing at his US slang!!! When he dropped us off at Wal-Mart, he asked Rob to hurry up as he was blocking the traffic, which we failed to spot as there wasn’t a car anyway near us, but hey who are we to argue at the man who works 24/7/365!!! After a mooch around Wal-Mart we found that there food selection was pretty bad unless you wanted massive quantities of stuff. We decided to go into Hilo town itself and save the