#5 – March 13th – Honolulu

It was another overcast day threatening to rain so we packed ourselves up and drove to Honolulu!

We dislike Honolulu. It doesn’t really feel special or particularly Hawaiian. It’s a big American city, that has a famous beach on it, on an island where you can find amazing non-famous beaches all around!

However, we’ve been in Hale’iwa for more than 2 weeks, so a change of pace and a change of scenery is a good idea! We took the long way along the windward, east, coast of the island. Including one diaper break and one feeding/omfg-sleep-damn-you break, it took us 2 hours to drive.

We circled around the roads near Waikiki for about a half hour looking for parking. I hate parking. >.<. Finally we found a good looking parking garage that charged $2.50…per half hour. That’s a good double what kind of rip off parking you’d find in Vancouver. I consoled myself by counting out if we spent 4 hours there, and paid $20 for parking and that’s about what you would pay for an event parking at home so I could be ok with that.

We immediately sought out food. We walked past a bunch of possibles before I sighted the Maui Brewing Company pub and I was sold.

We paid $6 for a root beer and like $10 for a flight of beers, and $20 for each entre. Which is…ok…that’s quite a bit, particularly when you convert to USD. In CAD, we’d expect to pay that at a decently nice restaurant. Which isn’t to say this place wasn’t nice, but is to say that it’s more than I’d expected.

We walked to a little souvenir/kiosk mall where Miranda bought some Hawaiian clothes for her and Ava.

Then we walked to the beach and strolled along it for a bit. It is a nice beach, although a bit commercialized in places.

Am I complaining to much about this place?

I went for my customary swim after we got home, but this time in the rain, and nearer Ava’s bed time. It was like National Geographic out there! I saw an eel and 4 turtles and a ton of schools of fish.