Saturday - April 18th - Costco, The Beach, and Rainbows

Saturday morning started out like most in Hawaii - with a nice breakfast of fresh pineapple and papaya, yogurt, and some POG. We had stopped off at Safeway on the way back from Chinatown the day before to buy some groceries. After breakfast we had to attend to a very important matter - finding a Costco. We just wanted to go for the fun of it, but we ended up buying a few things: humbows, pineapple, chocolates for friends and family, and Maui chips. Emily was completely amaized by the Costco. It had lots of cool things that our Anchorage Costco's don't have, and even a few things that Seattle's doesn't have (like bulk tofu).

After Costco we decided to hit the beach of Waikiki again. We were mainly just killing time in the sun because Kari and Jared were arriving that night (they were taking the same flight we were on, just a few days later) and we were going to meet them for dinner. At the beach we were at they were having some sort of professional volleyball event. But the PA guy was super lame. He kept trying to get people into the action, but no one really cared. We watched for a little bit, but I mainly laid in the sun reading my Watchmen man-book (that's Jared's term for graphic novel) or splahed in the ocean.Emily enjoying a wonderful fresh breakfast in the Hawaiian sun.

After we hung out on the beach for a while, it was time to meet Kari and Jared for dinner. They had just arrived that night, so we met up at our studio and went to a local place called Rainbows for some local plate lunch specials. Think of Rainbows as Dick's Drive-In (how you order, then you eat outside on benches or on you car hood) mixed with Daily's (fish, burges, etc). I had some fried Ahi Ahi with some rice and macaroni salad. Emily had some rice and chili. I thought the place was pretty good.