The milk is really 6.99 per Gallon and that was supposedly on sale! That is at a regular market. They have Foodland and Safeway here. At Cosco and Sam's Club the milk is just a little over $4. Of course, everyone has heard of haoles, but I've picked up a little more slang. Which is called pidgin, it is a combo of Potuguese, etc. etc. Shishi is pee, at work, when you want a urine sample, you say "Make shishi in the bottle." If you are 'pao', you are done, finished. The sunsets are totally cool here, but then Nevada has great sunsets, too. I have seen more rainbows here in the past month than I've seen in probably 5 years in Vegas! Of course, it rains here, just about everyday, but don't leave the beach just because it starts raining. It will clear up and the sun will be shining in 5 minutes. The locals (kama'aina) by land marks like the Ala Wai Canal, or an ABC store, or a restaurant or a beach or whatever, but rarely by the actual name of the street. Getting around here is quite confusing, even after a whole month! The on ramps are not at the end of a street and you have to turn and go up a side street to get on and then there is never an off and an on ramp on the same street. Not to mention all the one way streets and the streets that have one name and then suddenly they change their name when you go through an intersection! The chances that there will be a street sign is probably 50/50!
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Chinatown
Is there a Chinatown in every city? We made it over there on Tuesday and had to park a long way away, parking is tough in Honolulu. So, there are some nice flower shops in there, but the markets are kinda scary. I saw lots of live fish flopping around in shallow tpperware basins and a pigs face in the meat case.Gross! Lots of pig feet, whole fish with their eyes bugging out and shrimp with their heads still on. I'm afraid I need the face removed to eat it. i might become a vegetarian. No, not really. Just remove the face first please. And hopefully the feet, too.
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Manoa Falls
This is a beautiful hike and I suggest it if you like mosquitos, no not really. The girls at work say it is full of them, but I didn't see one that day we hiked up the slippery path. It had been raining so that is probably what kept the little beasties away, in fact it was raining part of the time that we were hiking. But rain is s different here in Hawaii, not at all a bother like in Las Vegas. It comes and then it goes. On the trail up to Manoa Falls, which you get to by going up through a residentail neighborhood, isn't that weird?, the tree trunks and rocks are all covered with ivy, it looks like something from a science fistion movie and of course at the top the fall is beautiful. The collest thing is the bamboo forest that you are in on the way up the mountain. The Maona Valley receives more than 100 inches of rainfall yearly and you can see it is so from the lush tropical palnts. The great Queen Kamehameha dies here is 1832, she favored the cool hills of the valley as a vacation spot to escape the winter heat.
Our home away from home...
Our little apartment is feeling a little more homelike since I bought some beauftiful fresh flowers and an orchid at the swap meet. There is a fun swap meet at the Aloha Stadium. The Pro Bowl will be held there next month. It is very near the Pearl Harbor Memorial. It is open on Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays. Admission is $1. It wraps all the way around the stadium and has lots of fun Hawaiina stuff. I bought a scrub shirt, 2 mummus, and man's shirt, a letter opener, 2 cell phone charms, a hula dancer doll, 8 t-shirts, 2 small backpacks and 1 large backpack, an orchid, a t-shirt for me and some shorts for me. (and a shave ice)! Cameron stayed home. haha He won't stay home next time, he'll have to go keep me out of trouble!
Cameron is actually looking at stocks in his sui, no not his birthday suit or business suit, his swimming suit!
Out on our lanai, I am holding a delightful pastry from Liliha Bakery. It is called a cocoa puff, creamy chocolate filling on the inside and a yummy pile of glaze on top. Liliha Bakery has the best pancakes in the world, well, at least on the island! It is located about a block west of Liliha and Vineyard, near the H-1.
Friday, January 18, 2008
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