I've been so tired lately. Even talking to people online feels draining. I don't really know what's up with that...

It's been long enough, I really ought to post my Hawaii pictures now.

My uncle introduced us to a vegetarian restaurant called Govinda's. It's run out of a Hare Krishna sanctuary place. You pay $10 for an all you can eat buffet, and they have a different entree every weekday.


I took a picture the day they were serving nut loaf.

The food is very good, but it's a bit hard to find the place, since it's just in a neighborhood and there are no clear signs to tell you where to go.

A photobooth over at Ward Warehouse (a shopping center).

I don't really know why you'd want poop and toilet paper as the motif for your photo strips.

Looking up from the inside of a sculpture at the Aloha Stadium.

The swap meet they have at the stadium really sucks now... it's all just commercial vendors, no actual normal people just selling flea market type stuff.

I did buy some sea grape jam though.


We went to a food truck gathering and I got some lemonade... it was cucumber cayenne I think?


My mom had a problem with her eye or something while we were there, so we had to wait at Long's Drugs for a super long time while we waited for them to fill her prescription... We each took our blood pressure about three times, and I saw this on the shelf while we were there.

I was not aware babies needed special water?

I went shopping in Waikiki with my mom and we got these cute hand creams from a Korean beauty store.


There was a dish of Okinawan sweet potatoes in the specialty deli at Foodland.


Hiking to a lighthouse...

(It's not much of a hike... you just walk up a paved path)

The view is nice.


There are some of these buggers on the path though.


A love lock at the top.

The fences are extremely rusty because of the salty breeze from the sea.

We went to Shirokiya a few times during the trip... It's this big Japanese store that is sort of a collection of a bunch of different shops, and it has a food court on the second level. Here's a guy making animal shaped waffles.


And one of the waffles we bought. They're all filled with different things, like custard or jam.


A shot of the food court...


Takoyaki stand (octopus balls).


More food court stuff.

Since I am used to the big food court at Shirokiya, I kinda thought the one at the Mitsuwa in New Jersey was going to be similar, since it was advertised as being the biggest Mitsuwa in North America. You ought to visit Hawaii sometime, iki. :P

One of my uncles wanted to visit a friend who owns a... store that mainly sells Vibrams and wheatgrass, and there was a big praying mantis hanging out there.


There were a bunch of boxes with wheatgrass growing in them there, and my uncle's friend gave us free wheatgrass shots! Turns out wheatgrass is gross, though.

Regardless of the health benefits, this isn't something I ever want to be consuming regularly.

On a less healthy day, I had shave ice and a chocolate peanut butter cupcake.


When Hanauma Bay closes, mongooses (mongeese?) come out to raid the trash cans for food.


My uncle has a friend who has a house that's being built, and there there's a tree on the property with an old treehouse platform on it...

I climbed up into it, but the quality of the wood made me very concerned for my safety, though my uncle's friend seemed to consider it pretty sturdy.

I think this is a picture of a beach called Shark Cove, but I could be wrong.


Here are some ducks that live around the beach.


I had to take SO many pictures to get a clear shot of this fish. It's a wrasse, and my dad was throwing it bits of a riceball he found on the ground...


Here's my dad eating lunch near the cliff he was feeding the fish from.


A cool teacup chair at the mall... They didn't allow sitting in it though. :(


Cha Cha, my uncle's cat. He likes to wait in front of the door for people.


Near the end of the trip we hiked up Koko Head mountain. Basically you just walk on/along these old tracks until you get to the top. At the bottom of the trail, before we actually went up to the mountain, a bunch of people had thrown their shoes on a power line...


The view from the bottom.


A double rainbow!


I took a picture looking down at my parents. The incline is pretty steep.


When you get to the top there are some old abandoned military structures.


They pretty much all have graffiti on them.


I wish I could have climbed down into this shaft... the ladder is REALLY rusty though, and it was very dark in there. I couldn't actually see into this-- I just held out my camera to try and find out what was down there.


This was the thing they used to pull up carts on the tracks.


Here is a different view of the shaft I showed before. The other picture was taken from the hole in the concrete that you can kind of see to the side there. This one was taken from the hole in the rusted metal door.

People have written their names on the wall in chalk... I guess since it's sheltered, they don't wash away.

This guy went up and down the tracks like three times while we were there. ಠ_ಠ

I felt super tired after just doing it once...

We all ate out as a family on one of the nights and I noticed this...


FIGHT THE SYSTEM, YEAH.

At the mall we tried out a dancing game for the Kinect in the Microsoft store.


(Those are my uncles and my cousin)

Got lunch from Kale's, a health food store in... Hawaii Kai, I think? Mmmm, falafel.


A scary pigeon hanging around.


Malasadas, yum yum.


On the way back to California, our plane had some troubles... one of the generators apparently failed and we had to fly back to Hawaii an hour into the flight. Had to wait for HOURS until they got us a new plane... Meanwhile, these dudes were fixing the plane that had problems.


They gave us free juice and some free airport food certificates (only valid for a short time) to compensate...


And... that was the selection of Hawaii pictures I decided to share. I actually took like 400+ pictures, but for hopefully obvious reasons I am not going to post them all.

My birthday is this week and I don't think any of my friends know that. >_>

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This video is interesting. Not very surprising, but interesting.

That's certainly a mangy looking pigeon o.O All of these pictures look really cool!
» LostSoul13 on 2013-09-15 09:32:23

All of the food looks so good...
What day is your birthday? 3:
» Unicornasaurus on 2013-09-16 10:18:04

Sea grape Jam???? and a giant preying mantis!?? Looks like you had a good time :)
» Midnight on 2013-09-17 08:22:40

Yes, wheatgrass/juice is disgusting. Yet hella good for you.
But also sososossogroooosssss.
(My uncle is a true believer. He tells everyone about wheatgrass and its benefits.)
» invisible on 2013-09-17 01:36:19

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