a very sad day...

after arriving in hawaii and before going to the hotel, our first stop was to check the hours of Jeff's favorite saimin place. it was closed and we were greeted with this sign. it was not a good way to start off our vacation. we had been really looking forward to palace saimin... so sad...

so we decided it would be a good opportunity to try a new place

they had a really big menu compared to palace and way more expensive too

well, how was it??? just say, we won't be going back... if all else fails we will go to zippy's

aloha

we have arrived!!! this was the view from our room at the hilton hawaiian village. we were hoping for a better view of the ocean but this one was pretty good.

lunch at forty niners, one of our favorite places and we really should try to get there more often. we didn't have time on our last trip in May but we got there this time....

garlic chicken and fried saimin



fifty's type of diner, the tables are really old...

terri cheeseburger and mac salad (spaghetti noodles)

both were super yummy and we had wished we had gone back

north shore

pretty good us photo, thanks to photo shop!!!!

spent the afternoon at the beach. the clouds are so beautiful...

Happy Thanksgiving

from hawaii...

hope every one has a great day filled with fun and food.

we'll be flying home so think of us as you eat that juicy turkey!!!

still following the kogi truck

last weeks special "pac man"

2 salsa's, 3 meats (kogi beef, spicy pork and spicy chicken), sesame mayo, salad, chicharrones
jack and cheddar cheese...

and yes, it was good... we have been pretty much following the kogi truck in our area every weekend. i think we are addicted. the lines have gotten shorter with the cold night. if you want to find Kogi taco's http://www.kogi.com/ and twitter...

road trip

Vegas!!!

Last weekend we took a very short road trip to Las Vegas. On Saturday we visited the sharks at the Mandalay Bay Shark Reef Aquarium. First we saw the jungle part and found out we were not allowed to take photos. So this is the only one we took... No shark photos. The aquarium was really nice with lots of sharks...Kai enjoying a ride on Uncle Jeff's neck!!!

For lunch we went to the Burger Bar. We have tried to eat here several times but the line was always too long. These were the mini burgers, one was buffalo, kobi beef and one organic beef ( I think). So cute and yummy too. While Kai napped with his Dad we went shopping at the outlets the rest of the day. After they joined us for more shopping!!!

For dinner we went to cousin's Ruthie and Nelson's house. We wanted to try the famous 30 inch pizza and visit with them at their home since we had never been there before...




OMG!!!
It was like a pizza we saw on Man vs Food. So huge, you can't really tell
in the photo...


Jeff with the 30 inch pizza. It was very yummy and the 6 of us plus Kai did a good job of eating a lot of it. It was a very short road trip but as usual we had fun and look forward to going back.