I was sooooo tired last night I fell asleep before blogging. So here it is.
Ummmmmm...lets see if I can remember. First thing, actually ten am, which is first thing for us, we pulled our walking shoes on and hoofed it over to a place called Rainbow Drive in. We walked along the canal that runs behind Waikiki. That walk was sooo peaceful and there were benches to sit on all the way along.
Our lunch was interesting. The place is a 'plate lunch' place...which means you get to pick your meat (bbq'ed spam, bbq'ed pork, bbq'ed hamburger , bbq'ed chicken, well you get the idea). Then they pile on macaroni salad (sometimes mixed with potato salad) and a pile of white rice...and that's a plate lunch. But they do have other stuff.
I ordered corned beef hash and over easy egg. What I got was stringy corned beef mixed into mashed potatoes smothered with thick beef gravy. And they added macaroni salad and rice and an egg. Hmmm...some of it was delicious. Cookie got chilli and it was fantastic.
We then walked back to the hotel and spent a good portion of the afternoon at the pool. Then we decided to go for a walk and hunt for a dinner place. We ended up at the Cheesecake Factory! We hadn't realized it was so close (meaning a place the nibble is able to get to without too much trauma). In we went and had the most delicious dinner. Cookie will def be regaling you with stories of the meal she ate. And it was huge and she ate it all!!!!
Best of all though, just as we were about to order our dinners, Cookie let out a big, very unlike her, whoop. She made me jump and the waiter was flummoxed! Upon closer looking, her daughter in law, whom we knew was in Waikiki but had no idea she was in this particular restaurant, had snuck up behind Cook and surprised her. How awesome is that to run into someone you know!!!so far away from home!..So they chatted for a while and we may run into them again before we leave on Sunday.
Now for today. What an amazing awesome day we had. We went to Hertz at eight this morning and got our convertible..camero. Off we went exploring. The first place we went was way out as far southern/west as you can go. Bill and kids and I spent a lot of time out there at that beach. In fact the kids almost drowned on one visit....seriously. It even brought the lifeguard running.
It is so beautiful out there and peaceful and peopless! There were more people than I have seen before but not too many. You could hear the birds and the waves and the wind. I love it out there. Then we took off and drove up through the island to the very northern/western tip. Its much wilder up there. The waves are huge and the terrain rough. Again its the isolation and lack of people thats the appeal. Although there were more people there than the southern one. Beautiful.
We drove back down through the island to Honolulu and beyond to the other side...the east side. But not til we had driven around part of the city that has Costco. I want to find Costco so I could by a box of wooden chopsticks. But we couldn't find it. Anyway we drove way out past Honolulu and finally pulled into a set of stores to turn around.
Suddenly Cookie let out a yell so loud I almost drove off the road. Whaaaaaat????? I yell back. COSTCO!!!!!!!!!! and points at a Costco I had no idea was there! Holy Hannah!!! We found a Costco, but nowhere near where we had been looking.
In we went and boy I tell ya, that store is massive! But Cookie found the chop sticks for me and wouldn't you know, the box of them was way too heavy for travelling with. But the trip wasn't a total bust. She bought herself a bottle of wine and I bought me smoked salmon and chocolate covered macadamia nuts.
And then....we got lost. Geez! I think its the closest we have ever come to fighting. I do not handle being lost very well, as poor Cookie found out. I am yelling and being impatient and she is telling me to be quiet and let her finish what she is trying to say. We drove in circles and I am snapping away. Finally when we looked at the map again....we were looking at it the wrong way up....I think. That or it was just a stupid map, which is way more likely! Anyway, we did find our way back, without a map's help.
Then when we did get back we headed straight back to Cheesecake Factory and had another awesome dinner. Miso salmon for me. Sooo delicious.
And we are a little burnt tonight. I always burn and it turns into tan. But poor Cookie burnt her bald spot on her head. Its all red. I told her that its going to peel and its going to look like she has giant dandruff! Hahahaha!!!!!
Gotta bounce peeps! So tired.....TTYL
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