I mislabeled my previous Hawaii post as Friday. Anyway, here’s the actual Friday post.
Woke up at 6:30AM and wasn’t even close to being the first one up. Junior was up already and Dan had enough time to blog more than he has in all of 2009. Around 7:00AM we decided to pump up for the day in the fitness center. We showered, lathered up, and pulled the board shorts on. At 9:00AM I took a phone interview.
Zippy’s
Not too much to say about Zippy’s. If you’ve eaten there, you know what it’s like. If you haven’t, it’s a fast food version of some of Hawaii’s local fare. When you’re on vacation, you tend to pay less attention to how much food costs from meal to meal. I like Zippy’s, but it’s actually kind of expensive for the portions.
Foodland
It’s a supermarket. But it’s in Hawaii. You can grab spam masubi at the ready-made hot food section. And we did. Sort of the go-to food choice between meals. The reallly great thing is the ready-made cold food they have. All kinds of poke, and I’m sure locals take it for granted the same way I took dungeness crab for granted in Oak Harbor. RJ got the octopus poke the first day and I was hooked. Eight bucks a pound and a pound is a lot of raw seafood.
Hanauma Bay
If I could only keep one memory of Hawaii it’d be snorkeling at Hanauma Bay. But before you can go in you’re required to watch an introduction to snorkeling video less about your safety and more about not destroying the reef or grabbing the turtles. When more than one of my friends jokingly said the video was making them horny I started to wonder about the “jokingly” part.
We SPF’d our bods and lathered each other up. We finally got into the water for the first time on the trip and it was glorious. After splashing each other for a while we got around to renting gear and strapping up. That was my first time snorkeling, and it’s ridiculously fun. Basically I would swim around for a while, point a fish out to someone, stand up, rip my mouthpiece off, wait for them to stand up, ask them if they saw the fish I pointed at, put my mouthpiece back on, and do it over and over.
One type of fish—black and white stripes—kept showing up. I compare it to those 3-lb fish in Ocarina of Time that you get mad when you catch. I was tired of seeing those things. Me and Jon saw a flounder and were getting excited to tell the other guys but when we caught up to them they were doing various endzone celebrations (read: vigorously high fiviing) because they saw some sea turtles. Missing the turtles bummed me out.
We were there for four hours and spent $7.50 to enter and $11 for gear. By far the most fun I’ve had for under $20.
Big Kahuna, Banzai, Oceans, The Living Room
Big Kahuna—I really enjoyed the pork loco moco. Banzai—Cool bar, probably better if more people were there. Oceans—Cool club, definitely better if more people were there. The Living Room—Probably the least safe I felt during the trip. So dark in there. So hood. Then a local rapper performed upstairs. So we went downstairs.