The Shrimp Shack & The Dole Plantation

The Shrimp Shack- The shrimp was awesome ! I had the garlic butter shrimp and Trevor and David had the spicy shrimp. Barret didn't know if he liked it or not so he got corn on the cob and tasted all of ours. The rice was so good too.. mmmm
The water behind David is where the get the shrimp, so it is really really fresh. It's kind of gross but my shrimp had feet ! They were deveined but had the shell and feet attached :) EWE! Tasted good, but had to peel them first.
So , I have too many pictures on here to put them in order. We decided to have desert at the Dole Plantation. This is David's Pineapple Upside Down cake.. I had a pineapple scone and Trevor had a waffle bowl with pineapple ice cream (not pictured). Heheee...

They are having the time of their life :)
Look, Barret just can't get away from Guitar Hero :)

Who knew, Pineapple grew like this?? There is a huge long process on how its grown, you'll all just have to come out here and see for yourself...
We did go through the garden maze, it is the largest in the world according to Guiness Book of World Records. I think it is over 3 miles. We had to find 8 secrets spots to get through the maze. It was fun, David navigated and we followed, until the end when Barret decided to go out on his own. He ended up done before us and was waiting outside the maze..
I didn't realize it said DOLE on the lawn in front..
Here is Barret's dessert, a pineapple slushy in a souvenir cup.
Oh, and this is what I have been working on in our empty house waiting and waiting four our stuff ! Lace socks :) Til our next adventure... well it might be awhile since one of our party is leaving us for the rest of the year.. But I will post boring beach photos I'm sure :)

North Shore

Just a few pictures from our drive around the island up to North Shore. We'll be making a few more trips. Next time we would like to try out a Shrimp Shack, we saw a macadamia nut farm, The Dole Plantation, and a ton of beaches to stop at. We did stop at Sunset Beach and it was filled with people with camera's perched on the beach watching the surfers. There is no swimming allowed, but people just sit and watch. The waves were crazy big ! Next time I will use my zoom zoom lense :) Trevor found some awsome shells at North Shore beach too.

Our newest family member

We got her at the Hawaiian Humane Society. Please help us name her! I put a poll up on facebook. My pick is Maggie :)

Sunday in Waikiki

We went kayaking at Waikiki Beach on Sunday.. David and Barret saw a big sea turtle come up for air and I missed it ! We went around in circles trying to find it again.. I can't wait to go snorkeling sometime!

Waikiki day 2

We took a very long walk down the beach today and back up through town. Can you believe Trevor is wearing flip flops and board shorts ? The first picture of me is not in Waikiki, its at the beach on base before we left for here.

Weekend in Waikiki

Aloha from Waikiki !

Actually, this is just from Friday night .... We will be hanging out here until Monday morning when we pick up our keys to the house. Housing told us to go spend a weekend here in Waikiki so we took them up on their offer ! They don't have adjoining rooms available on base so we are allowed to go wherever out in town. So we are here at the Embassy Suites at Waikiki.

Ok, I can't take credit for this shot, this is the view from our patio at the hotel, and after many shots of blurry lights, I gave up... David messed with the ISO and here is a very pretty shot from our room at the hotel..





Mahalo for stopping by !

Day 3

Back to Pyramid Rock, Trevor wore flip flops this time :)

Day Two in Hawaii

Today we went to visit Katie at animal quarantine. We brought her a chewy bone, yesterday was a better day but hopefully we can bring her home in the next couple of days. OH , yes we went to the Humane Society :)... we found a frisky little black kitty that we liked. They are supposed to have some baby kittens on Tuesday morning though. If we have our house by then, we just might go get one. Then we drove back to this side of the island. I love driving through the tunnels, very movie like :) I've been so exhausted and have had to take naps during the day. Woke up, Barret and I did a load of laundry, we had two loads but we wanted to go check out Pyramid Rock (cool beach/lighthouse on base). So we ditched the second load of laundry and drove out to the water. It was like bathwater, Trevor of course has to be broken in to wearing flip flops and shorts, he refuses. So here are a couple of pictures from Pyramid Rock.