Happy New Year!!!

It's been a very busy few months and we are very behind on updating our blog but hopefully we can get back on track soon. Just returned from Florida where we had a great vacation and finished our 3rd half marathon. Happy New Year everyone...

it's a biggie!!!

here it is at last, our christmas tree and it's

a fat one. i thought it was a good one till we

brought it home and it had some empty spots

and the top was not straight... oh well

the towel marks the spot.


it's in!!!

now it's time to get the boxes out of the garage and decorate... didn't we just put those boxes away??? and now we are getting them out again!!! stay tuned for a few more hawaii post and then all the christmas stuff...

a champion day...

finally, we got to eat one of our most favorite things in Hawaii.

Champion malasdas!!!

Last trip we did a taste test and pick these malasadas as the best. Jeff said he is glad we do not live in Hawaii cause he would weigh 500 pounds due to eating these yummy delights...
they are made fresh and piping hot, so hot we couldn't even touch them at first and of course burned our mouth cause we couldn't wait till they were cool enough to eat...



outside these malasadas are rolled in sugar and crispy,
the inside to soft and light...
great way to start the day!!!




plumaria flowers outside of champion

libby manapua shop, our very first stop from the airport (we needed a snack)

actually we went there almost every day!!! a great find from our last trip and

still good this trip too...

yum, and easy to eat in the car on the way to the beach.

spent another great afternoon at the north shore.

ahhhhhh...

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...