so we were able to take evan to carmel, which was his first trip, just like we did with d, he is currently experiencing his second trip to seal beach,, and we even made it to hawaii. i had wanted to take the boys to the snow, but there is no snow in tahoe and it doesn't make sense to do a destination snow trip when dylan can't fully take advantage of the various snow activities. so we headed west to our favorite island destination.
it was different traveling with 2, vs traveling with just 1. of course packing took all night and fortunately both boys were good on both flights to and from. evan went through 6 diapers and we were treading dangerously with one 1 left by the time we reached oahu. instead of staying at a place with the nicest spa or great restaurants, we picked the place with the best kiddie pool. our room was underwhelming, particularly with the welcome cigarette and beer can left on our balcony, but at least we had an oceanfront room. it was priceless to see dylan sitting out there, sipping his "special" drink (a yakult equivalent) and saying "it's beautiful".
we rented out car, went to teinkaippin, which was still solid, but a little strange that we were the only patrons there, checked in, and made it in time for d to play in the pool and for us to watch the sunset. we had dinner at the hotel for convenience sakes and called it a night. everyone was up early the next day, and we had to get our vintage island coffee fix. it is as good as we remembered. and for the record, i didn't like the mocha drink as much. we had breakfast at the hotel and went to the dole pineapple plantation to ride the train. it was cute, and i swear the dole pineapple whips taste better at the source than anywhere else. on our way back, we tried nico's fish market which was pretty good, and had nice live music.
i can't believe that i'm losing my train of thought here. i can't remember where we had breakfast the next day. i know for dinners we went to the udon place. to jimbos, and at at the hotel. for lunches, we had hotel food, including shrimp and chicken tenders, ramen, nicos, and for breakfast we ate at the hotel and a new place called goofy's with the taro root biscuits for eggs bennies that were deelish, but i'm blanking on 1 our of breakfasts. we also hit up the starwood lounge, which was nothing to rave about with the carrot sticks, celery sticks, cheezes and steamed buns, and strage currey mussels, frostcity (lychee is ooh-so-good) and bubbies for the mochi ice creams where was a great find! WHERE DID WE EAT BREAKFAST?
random thoughts since i'm so annoyed that i can't remember all our meals:
-i thought the free bag of goodies we got to pick at the small store in the lobby was a fun touch
-was shocked that 12 diapers cost $13
-was disappointed that we didn't get to go to sasabune
-surprised that we didn't get to try standup paddleboarding or surf on this trip
-surprised at how comfortable dylan is in the water
-had a great time playing with dylan in the ocean, and riding the waves in his floaty tube
-keeping track of my island vintage coffee expenditures with my rewards card
-sad for brian that the 49ers lost
-hard rock has great restrooms
-still like shopping for bikinis, even though my body isn't bikini ready yet
-surprised that the international market was mostly closed (byt they do sell dole pineapple whips at the peets stand outside our hotel)
-still did not find a pair of tod's moccasins worth trying on
-no sunglasses this time at chrome hearts
-surprised we didn't make it to izakaya gaku
-didn't see many fishes but did see a few turtles outside out hotel room
-shocked that i couldn't find any cute boardshorts for peanut
-didn't make it to the aquarium, hanauma bay, or ride the trolley (which he really wanted to do)
AHHH - i remember. We went to boots and kimos! whew - although I am concerned that my pregnancy brain will never fully recover.
much aloha love for hawaii. i'm sure we'll be back - the question will be aluani, trump's hotel or back to the sheraton?
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