Well I think we are done with Waikiki. We have had a great time but its time to go home and we likely won't be back. We will be sticking with Maui from now on. Maui is such a gentle island full of gentle people...much prefer that. This trip might have made more sense to us if we were shoppers or swimmers. Seeing as how we are neither there isn't much point to O'ahu. The three days we had full awesome activities were wonderful though. Neither of us would have missed those for anything.
On day 9 we lounged about in our room reading. We have both read a couple of books, well I haven't. I read one then started on the next one...got about one third of the way through and it turned into a very unrealistic romance, which I refuse to read.
Then we went shopping, little gift shopping, in Duke's Lane, where a lot of displaced vendors from the International Marketplace ended up. We were quite successful. We went back and found the lady that had ripped our shirts off our backs and sold us matching outfits! She was happy to see us I must say.
That evening we met Cookie's daughter in law and her friend for dinner. On Maui there is a delightful colourful little town by the name of Paia. People such as Willie Nelson and Woody Harrelson live in that wee town(If that means anything to you) . There is a fantastic restaurant called The Fish Market which was always full when we drove by. They have opened one in Waikiki here and that is where we went. The food was delicious! I had opah, or moonfish sautéed and served with Cajun rice. It was amazing. I have a feeling opah will be on the endangered species one day so wanted to try it before that happened. Glad I did!
Yesterday, day 10, we walked down Kuhio, hitting up every ABC store we came across...just for the heck of it. Now if you haven't been to Waikiki you won't understand what that means. You know how there is a Starbucks everywhere in Vancouver? Sometimes kitty corner from each other? Well multiply that by a hundred and you have ABC stores. We can see two right now off our balcony!
They are full of hats (but not the actual visor I am looking for), mugs (but not the small lighter kind I am looking for), sun dresses (but not in my gigantic size...even though the locals are pretty skookum), toys ( but not the shark pincher we want), suntan lotion (but not the brown Kukui nut one I want), ....kind of like a fridge full of food but none you want....or Netflix, tons of shows but not one you actually want to watch. But it was fun anyway.
Then we tried to go for a walk along the canal but the wind was blowing so bad we could hardly walk! On the way back we stopped at Foodland and bought our dinner stuff, back to the room and read read read.
At seven we watched the Gayle/R Kelly interview. Our conclusion: a melodramatic cry baby peodophile.
Now its morning of the 11th day. Our last day in paradise. We are going to a new place we haven't visited yet. I shall take pics and tell you about it tonight. Tomorrow we wing our way home! TTYL
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