Looking around while they were waiting to catch a taxi, Echo noted that it looked like, and smelled, a lot like the city that they'd tried to catch a break from. Echo hoped that what he'd read was right and that just because Honolulu was a city that the other parts of the island would be green. Fortunately, there were still seven other islands....
  After they loaded all of their luggage (there wasn't that much, really) into the taxi, Echo looked out the window at the mountains. Wow. It really is nice.

~~~

"Fives!!" Echo scolded. "Put on some sunscreen!! You don't want to get a sunburn or cancer!!"

"Relax, Echo," Fives drawled. "I'm working on my tan."

"Fives."

"What?"

"You're naturally tan."

"Fine then. I'll show off my abs."

~~~

Echo relaxed in the shade of a beach umbrella, his favorite book in his hand. He soon started to doze off in the pleasantly hot day. The sea smelled really good, fresh and clean.

Suddenly, a glob of seaweed and wet sand landed on his stomach.

"Eeeww!! Fives, that is disgusting!!" Echo brushed it off then got up and started to chase his brother around in the surf.

Fives just laughed maniacally and ran away from his brother.

The occasional tourist paused to look at the two grown men playing like kids in the sand.

~~~

Echo relaxed on the balconey, from where he could see the beach. Waikiki really was beautiful, he mused. Then he saw something out of the corner of his eye that made him jump out of his seat and go to the edge of the railing.
He'd just seen Santa Claus walking on the beach. Or at least, someone dressed like him. Shaking his head, Echo returned to his chair to enjoy the rest of his evening.

A/N: This was fun. The Santa Claus incident was based on something that really hapened to me (yes, I saw Sandy Claws walking around on the beach).