Still dripping wet from a strong snorkel session in Shark's Cove, it starts to drizzle. The air is warm, the light rain is warm, (this is Hawaii after all) and we're cued up in front of the Pupukea Grill lunch truck about to order Ahi Tuna bowls. Really, life couldn't get much better...but then it does. Across the road, out past the Cove, we see movement in the water. Two spinner dolphins are involved in some five alarm aerial play, twirling and leaping. Did Pupukea book out this live action entertainment? Hardly. But somehow it feels personal.
From guava jelly to a plethora of fresh fish and fruit, Hawaii excels in delish eats. The irony of course is that there is also an abundance of processed food, oversalted and laden with MSG, perhaps even more readily available, that has caused an obesity epidemic among locals. But then again, where is that not the case these days?
While we were wooed successfully by Li Hing Mui sour candies and wasabi peas we mostly kept our eating to healthy outstanding meals out: Cafe Haleiwa and Apartment3 and fantastic meals in: Saturday night's baked Japanese sweet potatoes with miso butter, grilled rice balls with soy sauce, and steamed Opa with shitake mushrooms, executed by the lovely and capable Gaoline. Sunday night's home made pork laulau and stuffed inari from Yvonne at the Elliman family home in Manoa valley was no joke either.
On the eating front we crushed it. On the water front we dominated (stand up paddle boarding, snorkeling, and a rush hour paddle-out/surf in Waikiki). And on the hard partying front we prevailed (Mad Men night with $3 Kettle One cocktails at Apartment 3 followed by "industry night" at Lulu's).
If Sage isn't prepared for married life following this bachelorette blowout, I'll eat my hat, which, covered in Li Hing powder, might not even be that bad.
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