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Waikiki Beach
It's lined up with luxury hotels and very busy.Woke up at 7am and I couldn’t really go back to sleep. Golda still wanted to sleep, so I just did things to get ready for the day. When we were both ready, we both took an early morning stroll in Waikiki. We discovered that the beach was only a 15 minutes walk away from our hotel, so we planned to go there later in the day.
When we got back from our walk, we decided to see if there were any Outlet malls here in Oahu (Hawaii’s main island). We found one 18 miles from our hotel. On our way there I realized that the traffic in Hawaii was not very relaxing at all. It felt like Seattle’s rush hour traffic all the time. Anyways, when we got there, it looked like Seattle Premium Outlets only Hawaiian style. All we got there was a simple bag for the beach, sandals for Mason, and sunglasses for Golda.
Afterwards we decided to go to Helen’s restaurant (It’s the restaurant that was shown in “Man vs. Food”). It took 7 minutes by car to get there, and when we got there the place was closed.
Chinatown
One of the many historic buildings in Chinatown So, we decided to go to Honolulu’s Chinatown.
Like all Chinatowns, there were a lot of people on the street and it was very hard to find parking. We finally found a parking garage and decided to go in instead of trying to go around and find a parking spot. We basically navigated ourselves around Chinatown just by following where the most people were congregating. Lucky us, we found a Chinese market place that took up 1 city block. The market was almost like the Richmond night markets, but the stores are bigger and had more inventory in them; the food area though was not very impressive. There was basically a line of tables as a seating area, and the chairs were first come first serve. It was really hard to find seats. When we finally found seats, I went to the Thai food booth. The guy working there was positively the most energetic person I’ve met in Hawaii as far, and I let him know that.
We went back to our hotel and rested a bit; then we decided to head out to the beach like I mentioned earlier. It’s been
Central Market place
A statue of Confucious a while since I’ve been to a sandy white beach that I can actually swim in. Probably 3 years ago in Philippines was the last time. The swim felt relaxing and refreshing, but the only gripe I had about it, was that the bottom was full of rocks. It wasn’t all white sandy beaches underneath the waves.
We then headed to our hotel for a short break and decided to look for the restaurant that Golda wanted to try called “Blue Water Shrimp and Seafood”. Instead we ended up in “Jimmy Buffet’s Margaritaville” where I had a few drinks and some snacks. On our way back, I passed a statue that I had passed quite a number of times, but never took a picture of. So, this time I decided to take a picture of it, since the time of day was just right for the light. So I took a picture of Golda and the statue of a lady that looks like Buddha. As we were about to leave, 3 Japanese girls approached me with their cameras. I couldn’t understand what they were saying because they were speaking Japanese, but based on their hand signals
Chinatown Market
This is where you will find all you're cheap souvenirs. pointing out to the statue, I presumed they wanted me to take a picture of them with the statue (just because I have a DSLR doesn’t mean I’m a professional photographer). So, they gave me all 3 of their cameras and I took a picture of them. Then they offered to take a picture of Golda and me with the statue (of course I didn’t understand them, I just interpreted the series of hand gestures made to my camera in relation with the statue). The picture turned out great; we said thank you and headed back to our hotel for good.
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