As usual we were up super crazy early. This two hour time difference ain't good for old broads that wake up waaaay too early at home, never mind with a two hour difference. So six o'clock at home is four o'clock in Hawaii.
But we got up, made coffee and visited and watched the city wake up. We decided to go to the Ala Moana shopping centre on the trolley. So about ten oclock we headed out the door and down the street. The other day when we did this we ran into a Hawaiian dude out on the street corner hawking tours of one sort or another. He was still out there, a good looking Hawaiian by the name of Makana. We stopped, we talked, we went with him to his shop, and we signed up for two tours!
The first one is a circle island tour. Eight hours of exploring the island. This is going to be a great way for Cookie to see beyond Waikiki. The east coast and central island is absolutely worth seeing. The tour Makana offered seems perfect and for a good price.
The second tour is a luau, but not just any luau! This is a special luau that isn't very well known. Its small...only up to forty people. The food is not your usual luau food...but farm to table. It just looks like there might not be Lomi Lomi salmon, which would be sad. The luau is up in the mountains with an amazing view and we get free transportation!
On Monday we reserved a convertible...a mustang I believe. I want to drive Cookie out to the very western point of the island. I have so many memories there with Bill and the kids and its a very special area of this island. Although....that area is where the awesome people of Hawaii are NOT fond of us mainlanders. We could get into trouble if we don't do the trip right. But I have been there enough I can handle it right (I think).
After spending hundreds of dollars with that handsome fella we continued on to the shopping centre. That centre (second biggest in the world) has the most enormous food court known to mankind. By the time we got there we were starving. So we snagged a table and Cookie went off to find her lunch.
She was gone a long time and when she came back she was staggering under the weight of the biggest honkenest sandwich I have ever seen. Good god!!! The bread was enormous! And it was full of clubhouse stuffing. Its a good thing it didn't have three pieces of bread like a club house usually is! And you should have seen Cookie! Hahahahahahaha!!!! I think she was actually embarrassed!!! But you know what? She ate it!!!
We then caught the trolley back home and had a lovely afternoon in our room and down by the pool. For supper we went down to a beachside hotel that had an informal beachside cafe. Pupus and drinks and Hawaiian music, what more could one want? I had an ahi poke bowl and Cook had loaded fries. Sooo good!
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| TAKE A LOAD OF THOSE CRUSTS SHE LEFT BEHIND! |
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| ITS THAT KIND OF MALL |
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| BEACH CAFE |
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| SPAM MUSUBI |
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| PUPU TIME...AHI POKE BOWL AND LOADED FRIES AND BEER AND GIN |
Back in our room now. Its eight thirty and Cookie is sound asleep!!!! And she is snoring! The poor girl has had a cold. As a matter of fact she can't really taste anything right now either. I feel bad for her.
Anywhoo I need to get to sleep myself. I am tired, my horse is tired and tomorrow promises to be another stellar day. TTYL
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