Waimea Valley Botanical Gardens

Here is a little flora and fauna ... Mom and I headed up the Northshore to visit the botanical gardens at Waimea Valley today and made a few stops at Chinaman's Hat and Sunset Beach.  We stopped to see if there were turtles basking but they were not :(  Maybe next trip !  We almost didn't get to hike up to the waterfall because the were filming, and we were kind of excited to see someone famous and then we found out that they were filming Alvin and the Chipmunks.. mmmhmmm

Happy New Year !

My how time flies.... we only have about 6 -7 months left here in paradise, yikes !  I think I need to work less and beach more !  I am looking forward to next week when Mom comes out, we are going to visit some places that I haven't even been to yet.  We are going to the Polynesian Cultural Center and Wameia Botanical Gardens and I hope to seem some whales this time when we hike the to the lighthouse again!

Well I was just doing a little blog cleanup this morning, and thought I would share a little dessert that I made for a friend at work, for her birthday ..... I wanted to make a french dessert and discovered the Charlotte cake ! So pretty, I kind of mixed a few different recipes together but for the most part I used this one.  I followed the recipe except for the dream whip, I used heavy whipping cream instead.  I also covered the top with raspberries, oh so pretty ;)