Today We Are Shoppers

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I (Vanda) like being a tourist, but I like being a shopper even better! We arrived back at the hotel from Pearl Harbor around 2:00 p.m. and headed straight to the Hilton Hawaiian Village just next door. We went there intending to find a restaurant at which to make reservations for dinner for Saturday evening after the wedding. We were absolutely amazed to find a wealth of shops and restaurants, and realized that we could spend the rest of the day there and not even venture out to the streets of Waikiki. Shoppers from Japan abounded.

So many jewelry stores (and so little money)! I did buy a pair of inexpensive orchid, clip-on earrings along with a necklace made from freshwater pearls and some amethysts. These I will wear on Sunday evening with a new purple, green, black and off-white dress. Rob and I bought some souvenir-type gifts to take home to the kids, and Rob did some Christmas shopping as well! We scoped out the restaurants and decided to come back for dinner later that day, settling on Bali Steak and Seafood overlooking the beach.

We walked back to the hotel to clean up and get dressed for dinner, taking off our shoes and choosing the beach route. We stopped at the miliary exchange store to get some Kona coffees and chocolate-covered macadamia nuts to take home. I bought some Hawaiian perfume to wear for the wedding: White Ginger by Royal Hawaiian. We are posting some photos taken at dinner that evening, our last date as singles! At the end of dinner, the waiter brought us a "chocolate volcano" with two chocolate truffles inside (see photo). We are saving the chocolate volcano for tomorrow evening as a special treat - forget the diets!

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Comments

[Ann]

Great choice in jewelry, sis!! You look fantastic! (and Rob's looking mighty coordinated, too!)