Friday July 31 was our 3rd day in paradise. We wanted to stay close to Waikiki and our hotel that day since it was the night of the big firework show at the Hilton. We had planned that day to be our hike up diamond head but decided it would be a good morning to do the time share presentation and get it over with. That morning I slept in to about 5:15 am lol! I really didn't get use to the time change until the end of the trip but that was fine because waking up so early in the morning made it feel like we had really nice long days. Our hotel offered work out classes every morning at 6am on a beautiful green grass area. I had thought it was a yoga class that day but it ended up being Thai chi which was actually really fun and I'm glad I tried it out. After the class I meet up with Spencer at the gym for a run and then swimming. We then got ready for the time share thing. It was nice because we arranged it for 9am and they feed us a continental breakfast and then we just got to tour the resort. We listened to the deal and then we were done by 10:30. It was not bad at all considering we got free luau tickets and a breakfast out of it. We would love to do a time share some day especially if that meant many more trips to Hawaii!!
We decided it would be fun to walk over to the Ala Moana shopping center. It's a huge outdoor mall that has just about every store you can imagine. It was a nice walk along the marina.
After some shopping we were getting hungry and sushi sounded good so we went on yelp on our phones and found a place called Shirokiya which had 4 stars, over 1,000 reviews and only one $ so we were excited to try it. It took forever to find it in the huge shopping center and when we finally found it we were a bit surprised! It was not the "restaurant" we thought it was, it was a huge Japanese food court that had only Japanese people in it. Everyone there looked like true locals and we felt out of place and didn't really know how it all worked. We decided we were up for the adventure and gave it a try. Basically there where 30 or so different vendors you pick your food and take it to the cashier and pay for it all together.
It was an interesting experience for sure. The food was not that great so we were kind of disappoint in that but we did like trying it and the adventure of it all. We finished our mall day walking around more shops and having a yummy blizzard from Dairy Queen. When we walked out of the mall we saw the pink line trolley and found out that for $2 you can go around the whole Waikiki area. We jumped on and took a nice tour of all of Waikki and then it dropped us at our hotel.
When we got back to the hotel we were ready to go jump in the pool, lay out and relax.
The firework show was a big deal at the Hilton and we had heard that we would have the best view so we decided a pizza date on our balcony was the perfect dinner that night.
The crowds below were insane! We felt so lucky that we didn't have to be part of that and still have front row seats.
We both jumped when the first firework went off! It was crazy how close we were. You could feel them in your chest, they were that close.
It was a great show and it was fun sitting on the balcony watching the crazy crowd break up after it was all done.
We ended the night with chocolate macadamia nut candies, Honolulu Cookies and a movie. It was a fun relaxing night which was much needed for the early busy next day we had planned.
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