July 6, 2009
Sunday, July 12, 2009
The last few days of our trip!
Posted by Sarah at 12:18 PM 4 comments
Labels: cemetery, fish auction, goodbye, kayaking
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
The past week
So it's been a while since we last posted something. Early last week is a blur, but I'll try to piece it together.
June 28, 2009
Sunday morning our flight out of Kauai was at 8:05 am. I was worrying about not being able to check-in, because we left the house 15 minutes late and still had to fill the rental car with gas. But while mom was returning the car, Matt and I checked everyone in.. Everything ran smoothly and we were back on Oahu by 8:30am.
We unpacked and took a nap after we got back. That afternoon Matt and I went to Ala Moana Beach. While we were gone, my uncle had gotten a surf board from a friend for Matt to use. So he went surfing and I just laid on the beach. Matt was out surfing for about 2 hours, and while he was out a guy came by and asked me for some sunscreen. I told him I was almost out (which I was), but when he pointed out that I had three bottles I caved and gave him a little. While he was putting the sunscreen on, he asked me who I came with. I told him I came with my boyfriend who was out surfing, and he appologized, said thanks for the sunscreen and left.. Other than that, it was a nice relaxing day at the beach!
For dinner that night we had Hawaiian food. My mom and grandma picked up poi and laulau. My mom made lomi-lomi salmon, and grandma made beef stew. The laulau was salty, but dinner was very ono (delicious).
-Sarah
June 29, 2009
Monday morning we went to the Pearl Harbor memorial. It opens at 7 am, but we didn't get there until around 7:45.. a combination of leaving a little later than planned and getting lost on the way. So our tour of the Arizona memorial wasn't until 9:15am. While we were waiting we looked at different missiles used by the military through the years including the tomahawk missile and torpedoes. We also perused through the museum of the USS Arizona, which included personal items of crew members and information on the Japanese carriers used in the bombing of Pear Harbor. Before taking us on a ferry to the Memorial, they brought us into a theater where they showed a 30 minute documentary on the events that led to the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the events that took place immediately afterwards. The movie had actual footage from the bombing and was fantastic. It gave a real good feeling to how many people actually lost their life in this one attack. The memorial itself was OK. There isn't much to see other than the names of the people that died and some of the remains of the boat. Going to the memorial to me was more about reflecting on the lives lost for this country and how lucky we are to be a such an advanced country. I felt that some of the tourists were quite rude, talking loudly, chewing gum and just kind of being obnoxious.
After Pearl Harbor, we came back to the house and just slept and watched TV all day. We were still recovering from Kauai...
Posted by Matt at 12:01 AM 2 comments
Labels: eel, hiking, Pearl Harbor, Pizza Bobs, Sunset Beach, surfing
Monday, June 29, 2009
Kauai Trip- days 2 & 3
June 26, 2009
June 27, 2009
Posted by Sarah at 6:18 PM 3 comments
Labels: canyon, hiking, horseback ride, salt pond
Kauai Trip- day 1
June 25, 2009
We woke up pretty early for our 8:50 am flight. Sarah's uncle had to drop us off by 7:30 because he had to be at work around 8:15. Grandma, Mrs. Comstock, Tyler (Sarah's brother), Sarah and I checked in pretty easily. The flight to Kauai was only 20 minutes and we were out of the airport with the rental car at about 9:30. We had seen in magazines and website that chickens and roosters run rampant through the island. The first thing we saw outside the terminal was a rooster. Sarah's dad had mentioned of a place called Ma's Restaurant but we asked the Alamo gatekeeper and he said it closed down about a year ago. Our Plan B was Hamura saimin. Saimin is like Ramen noodles but way better.
We arrived at about 10:10 and the place was already packed with locals chowing down on Saimin (opens at 10) so we had to wait about 15 minutes.
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I had the special and Sarah had the Regular. For a side Sarah and I got some skewered meats (2 chicken, 1 steak). I probably could have eaten 10 of them. For dessert, we got a lilikoi (Hawaiian Passion-fruit) chiffon pie. Overall, the entire meal was amazing!
After brunch, we made our way from the town of Lihue to the town of Kapaa (about 20 minutes) on a the main 'highway' of Kauai. Sarah found a 'cute' little vacation rental on the internet vacation rental websites but the pictures were nothing to what we drove up to. The place was dirty and the owner wasn't expecting us. Apparently Mrs. Comstock had a PayPal malfunction and the payment didn't go through. I ended up using my PayPal to pay for the rental but didn't mind since I get the WorldPoints. After that whole ordeal, Sarah myself and Tyler decided to explore the island and traveled to a not so advertised waterfall, Kipu waterfall.
We had to travel through this narrow dirt path that was surrounded by a long grass or sugar cane. Once we got to the waterfall, we took a few pictures and prepared to jump in. I started out by jumping out using the rope and then coerced Sarah to jump off too. Soon after, I jumped off the waterfall itself. It was quite a rush to jump from that height. Sarah was hesitant to jump from the cliff side but finally did it and actually enjoyed it more than the rope. Tyler had a sweet camera and took a sequence shot of one of my rope jumps which turned out great! He also got one of Sarah jumping off the waterfall!
After jumping off a few more times, we decided to head back to the vacation rental. I felt adventurous which I guess is a good thing when you want to stumble upon random things. We came across some mini horses that had a cool background so I decided to take a few pictures.
We ended up going by this old fishpond that was apparently created hundreds if not thousands of years ago by natives. They built up two breakwaters along this river and created a slit for water to flow through. They installed wooden planks and separated them enough so that small fish could get in. The slits allowed small fish to get through but the fish would grow and not be able to get out. Its a clever way to farm and simple yet effective. Once we got back to the 'resort' it was time to chow down. We walked to the main strip since it was a few blocks away and ended up eating at a Asian/Hawaiian style place. Sarah and I both had the Hawaiian style pig. The interesting thing about dinner was that it was across from a Hawaiian church and they were singing loudly in Hawaiian!
I'm off to bed, we are going to Pearl Harbor tomorrow early in the morning! More updates to come!
Posted by Matt at 2:40 AM 0 comments
Labels: church, fishpond, kauai, mini horses, saimin, waterfall
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Commenting should work now...
I think I got commenting to work now so give it a try if you want to....big update coming up with info of our trip to Kauai...
Posted by Matt at 3:57 AM 3 comments
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Diamondhead Hike
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Posted by Matt at 10:58 PM 0 comments
Labels: Ala moana, Diamondhead, jamba juice, mochi, Waikiki
June 22, 2009
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