Dipping our toe in the pool of exploration.

Day three brings us prepared to sight see! It was a beautiful day.  It seems each  morning starts with rain here and then progresses through stages. The stages being rainy, warm, really warm, cool, really cool, and if it rains during the day HOT AND STEAMY. My hair LOVES this weather (not) The aveda anti humectant is not working so frizz is my daily battle.  We are in HAWAII who cares.  Ian and I head out towards some sights and then about noon our time I get a call from Matthew's school and it TOTALLY threw me off my game.  I talked to Matthew and he was upset, the school was upset, I was upset.  Matthew crying, me crying equals for a short day of sight seeing because then I was feeling headachey and worried about my kid.  I know he is 14 but he is still my baby and I felt he needed me and I couldn't help him.  His dad took over and Heather picked him up to get provisions he needed from Portland.  At any rate, here are pictures of what we did get to see.  We also went to downtown HILO.  A very cool little town that is housed across the street from the water.  They had a very interesting farmers market and what looked to be some really cool shopping but even though the store hours would read OPEN MON THRU FRI 9-6PM most of them were closed with one sign that read "nice day gone surfing".  It does seem that nobody seems to be in a hurry to get anywhere around here AND a stark difference to Hawaii and Mexico as I had compared in my last blog.  THINGS AREN'T CHEAP HERE! I have been shopping looking for momentos to bring home and things are not given away.  The people don't appear to NEED to make a buck hence closing early to go surf.  

Thursday-Day Four I went to town on my own.  I know we are on our honeymoon and one would think that we wold spend every waking moment together.  I needed to shop with out being rushed and Ian had a slight summer cold so I took the car key and my iphone with GPS and hit the road!  I went to HILO HATTIES which is this place that sells all Hawaiian clothes (not cheap) I looked for something for my dad (too expensive).  I went to downtown HILO and walked in and out of shops. I did find some cool stuff at reasonable prices for all my girls back home. I GOT THE BEST MASSAGE EVER! The massage was 2 hours long.  I got my hair washed and met some locals that give me directions to some cool places.  So things on MY want to do list SWIM WITH THE DOLPHINS, GO SEE THE LAVA, SNORKLE AND PIG ROAST.

I'll let you  know what we accomplish.  We have Luau reservations for tonight! 

DON'T JUDGE!

Well nothing says HAWAII like MEXICAN FOOD!  

Day two in Hawaii and I must be honest, WE DID VERY MUCH THE SAME THING WE DID ON DAY ONE! Don't judge! We have been tired.  We worked our A$$ e* off before the wedding and it appears SLEEP is something Ian and I have come to value as a precious gift we treasure when we are able to get it.  WE HAD A GREAT DAY TWO.  After sleeping in and making our own breakfast of oatmeal and turkey bacon (an homage to my week day breakfast with Denise) We watched a great movie with Tommy Lee Jones (huba huba) and that was REALLY GOOD! Once the movie was over WE TOOK A NAP! Yes, yes we are in Hawaii and we took a nap-DON'T JUDGE! It was fun THEN we went to the coolest little town called Pahoa.  It reminded me of what could have been a little town in Mexico.  The streets were very narrow and there were little stores on each side of the street and then MEXICAN FOOD! Not really what I had in mind while I was in Hawaii because Corpus Cbristi may not always be grand but THERE IS PLENTY OF GOOD MEXICAN FOOD.

The food was o.k.  I think that will be my only Mexican food in Hawaii experience.  The tortillas were like the Taco Bell Burrito tortillas but aside from that it was good.  THE MARGARITAS were good and just what I needed MORE SALT!  My face is not puffy enough at the moment so I thought a Margarita would fix me right up.  I'm being sarcastic, (really, me, shocking I know) I am drinking more water and trying not to drink so much so I can reduce the puffy in my eyes, hands and feet but that is another blog.  Ok, back to day two, after dinner we went to see something we were unable to see in Texas, the "W." movie.  We went, we saw, it was OK.  I already knew W. was an idiot and the movie just reinforces the fact.  I do LOVE that we are in Obama country here.  Since his grandmother lives here and he went to school here the WHOLE STATE is very much OBAMA. After the movie I asked Ian to stop at McDonalds because I wanted sometime familiar.  I had the 99 cent double cheeseburger BUT ON THE BREAKFAST MENU PICTURED ABOVE I could have ordered SPAM, WHITE RICE AND EGGS and a combo meal.  Go figure!

We have plans for day Three so keep in touch!

Paradise

GREETINGS FROM HAWAII!

On Sunday, just hours after the wedding, we started out for the airport at 5:30AM and we FINALLY got to our part of Hawaii at 2am our time! By 1am was starting to feel this may not have been worth it. I WAS SO WRONG! It is beautiful and all I have seen so far is my in-laws house where we are staying (he he "MY INLAWS" he he he still sounds funny to me).

Anyway, Ian and I were so tired from all of the fun, AND IT WAS FUN! Yes there was stress to the build up but we really had a great time at our wedding and hope everyone else did too.  It was a party and we wanted to do it up big.

Day one in Hawaii: go to HILO and get food and entertainment supplies so we don't have to leave the house.  I took THREE showers on day one just because I could not make up my mind on which bath or bath product to use SO I USED THEM ALL! Who would have ever thought that showering on a vacation could be so much fun?! See the outdoor shower and the outdoor living room pictures I've included.  Day one was all about unwinding from the trip and the wedding so we did nothing much at all AND THAT WAS FUN! I forgot to mention that day one was also a day to allow my cankles to un swell.  I don't think my feet had been THAT swollen since I was pregnant with Matthew.  You will be glad to know they are back to "normal" so I can get back to walking with ease and NOW we can hit the sights.

Ian's breakfast day one pictured above. Local fare, white rice, brown gravy, fried spam topped with two eggs over easy. When you order ask for A LOCO MOCO yum yum.  I opted for hot tea and french toast, no pictures needed.

I'll let you know what day 2 has in store for us once we get day 2 started.

Keep checking back!