supifam: Hawaii Day 5

Sunday Morning we woke up well rested and headed over to the gym for our sunrise workout. Talk about a great view from the treadmill!

We had fun playing with the panoramic feature on my phone outside on the balcony at the gym.

Even the locker room is beautiful and you could spend a whole day there!

After working out we took a dip in the pool. Then it was time to decide on breakfast. We had been seeing people walking around the resort with these really yummy looking fruit bowls so we asked what they were and found out they were called acai bowls. We had to go try them out!! It is a smoothie made of acia berries (a berry from Brazil that is suppose to be very good for you) then on top they put fresh fruit, granola and coconut. This became our new favorite breakfast and we actually became so obsessed we ate them every day the rest of the trip and got the recipe and have kept up the daily tradition here at home! Yes they are that good! So refreshing especially after a work out!

Day 5 was Pearl Harbor day. Lots went into planning this weekend. Since we still had the rental car we knew that we would need it to travel over to the memorial. We also knew that we wanted to go to the swap meet which is only open Saturday, Sunday and Wednesday. Sunday ended up being the perfect day. I had so many people tell me that you should reserve your tickets to Pearl Harbor before leaving because they sell out. When I went on line the only way you could reserve your tickets were through booking tours and the cheapest tour was I think around $40/person. I also remember hearing that Pearl Harbor was free admission so I wasn't about to pay $80 for something that could potentially be free. Our trusty tour book saves the day! They said that if you go on-line the day before the day you plan on attending you could reserve your ticket for $2. The catch was they only release a few for each time slot so you have to be quick. About a week before we left I would go online and see what the normal pattern was and I found that if you want to book you need to sign in right when they release the tickets at 7am the day before to reserve. So we did that on Saturday and got our first pick of times! It was a good feeling to know that we were reserved and only paid $2!! By 7:30 am all the tickets were gone! We made it over the memorial around 9am and just got to walk right in with out waiting at all.

We had a nice time walking around the grounds and reading all the stories in a few of the museums that they had. It was a very somber place and a wonderful tribute to all the people that lost their lives that day.

After walking around we lined up for our tour to go into the movie. They informed us in the line that unfortunately due to the hurricane that was suppose to come in later that week the winds were to high and that all the boats to go out to the memorial had been docked and were not allowed to sail :( We were pretty sad especially because the tour right before us got to go. We understood that they have there rules they have to follow we were just disappointed. I felt really bad for the others in our group I think they were veteran's and they were really upset. I also heard another couple say that this was their 3rd attempt at the tour and every time it gets cancelled due to the wind so I guess this is pretty common occurrence. The movie was very good and taught us a lot.

After that we got in the car and headed over to the swap meet. This was a lot fun walking around and bartering for some great souvenirs.

It was very hot that day! 89-90 degrees in Hawaii felt a lot different that 90 degrees in Merced. It made me thankful we have a more dry heat here. But then again in Hawaii you just wear your bathing suit 27/7 and can jump in any water you find so it made the heat bearable..

We thought we would cool off with a cold coconut......

But it was actually hot and disgusting but made for a cute picture, lol!

We walked around the whole stadium. There where 2 levels the lower level was most of the tourist stuff and then the upper level had more locals selling their old stuff just like you would see back home at a flea market. We stooped by one little boys stand. He was selling a bunch of Disney cars (happy cars, as we call them). It was cute because he had a list with all his prises and he was really into it. Spencer almost got a message at another stand we saw there but it looked a little shady not to mention kind of dirty too so we decided to skip that. After lots of shopping and walking we were ready for lunch. My boss Stan was probably just as excited for us to try fun restaurants on this trip as we were and he actually printed out a bunch of ideas of places for us to try. We kind of just did our own thing but when we were driving back to the hotel we saw a sign that said Nico's and I remembered Stan having me watch an episode of Diner's Drive-In's and Dives that had that particular restaurant on it.

It was right on Pier 38 with a great view of ships and the water. We enjoyed a coconut crusted mahi mahi salad and a cheese burger with fries. It was very yummy.

After lunch we walked around and then went back to the hotel to relax by the pool and in our room.

That evening we decided since we still had our car to drive and park over by all the shopping in Waikiki. We walked around the outside mall and then found a sushi restaurant for dinner.

I love that pretty much every meal we enjoyed it outside! I also love that we took so many couples pictures. I forgot why but just recently I need a picture of just Spencer and I and I looked through the millions I have on our computer and I could not find a single one. I adore all our family pictures and the trillions we have of the kids but it's nice that on this trip we got so many of just us it was great!!!

I was sad to hear that the International Market place that I spent so many afternoons at was now closed. I guess they closed it a few year ago and are building another mall. I use to love to walk through the vendors and buy random cheap stuff and knock off purses they also had an amazing chicken rice dish that my flight attendant friends and I would always get. We found out that some of the vendors were still there and were set up in an ally between Macy's and another store. It was pretty mini and very hot but it still had the charm and we found a cute ukulele for Carter. I thought this surf board parking was really cool.