2:28:30
We arrived in the evening, hungry, tired, disoriented. My sister-in-law arranged the trip, and she’s amazing. Two flights to get here, first leg was to LAX, then on to The Big Island.
On the plane, my husband amused our 5-year old niece while I chatted up a Taiwanese-American businessman, whom I amused tremendously by stealing a bottle of water while the flight attendants were busy.
I amused him that much more when I correctly predicted the time for the “Halfway to Hawaii” game the airline has for the passengers … totally cracked him up that this wild white lady with the pipes managed to beat out hundreds of passengers, including him (”I just don’t see where I went wrong…”), for the grand prize: THREE cans of macadamia nuts! I shared them with the back row. Everybody rides, hey?
Heh. Sure glad I got that math degree… the correct time was 2:28:12
My secret? I took the average of two estimates: the one based on total distance divided by net velocity, and the other based on the expected time of arrival minus the departure time. Half this average scored me the macadamias.