When in Hawaii...

We intentionally booked a two night layover in Honolulu on our way back to the Mainland from AmSam. We wanted an "adjustment" weekend before we re-entered a world full of traffic, large crowds, grocery stores and all of those other scary things that don't exist in AmSam. We went to Hawaii with one intention and one intention only, to eat delicious food. Our year in AmSam plus our vacation to Fiji had us feeling pretty set in the idyllic island beach department. I'm pretty sure we spent about 45 minutes at the beach and that was only because we felt inclined to see the world famous Waikiki Beach (it has nothing on AmSam beaches). Other than that our time was spent eating obnoxious amounts of food and boozing. Needless to say we had an amazing time.

5:30am in Hawaii.

The bustling streets of Waikiki.

$3 plate breakfast of spam, lil smokies, 2 eggs and rice. Win.

Some of the many stairs at Diamond Head

Because my husband likes to take artsy pictures and I like to throw up peace signs.

Diamond Head.

 We walked from the left side of the bay (Waikiki Beach) all the way to the national park and then up the crater at 7:00am after our red eye from AmSam.

He was not happy that I made him play supermodel.

Delicious udon that they made in house, salmon musubi, and tempura

The most amazing Shave Ice from Ailana Shave Ice. Nom worthy.

Mango, papaya, haupia with condensed milk and ice cream.

Yard Sticks at Yard House happy hour. So American of us.

Bomb.com loco moco from Rainbow Drive-In with gravy all over da place (even on the mac salad).

Waikiki Beach

Spam, egg and bacon musubi

Ailana Shave Ice Day 2. Choco-Lover. Oreo cookies, mochi, ice cream and condensed milk.

Happy husband with his temporary goatee 

They skimped no the mochi on the choco-lover so brought us a bowl of free mochi and some more shave ice.

Yesssss. Spam Musubi, Kim-Chee, Kalbi Short ribs, chicken katsu and mac salad.