Thursday, December 15, 2005
Woke up around 5:30 or 6:00 AM this morning, couldn't go back to sleep so I started reading Harry Potter 6 (The Half-Blood Prince). Breakfast at home (Chris and Nate's): Dole fruit cup, a banana, raisins, a pfefferneuse cookie. Nate did grading at the school where he works. Chris and I did the Diamond Head hike. The crater of Diamond Head is an inactive volcanic cone. You can drive through a tunnel into the center of the crater, then hike up the inside edge of the crater to an observation station at the top which offers beautiful panoramic views of Waikiki and all the surrounding land. The hike is 0.8 miles one way and climbs 560 feet. Chris had brought a flashlight along because there are two tunnels along the hike, but we found that they had installed lights for the tunnels since Chris had last done the hike. After the hike, we lunched at Bogart's: roast chicken sandwich with potato chips, water, kona granita for me. Errands: cookie store, Long's drug store, flower shop. Home, shower, computer time. Dinner at Mariposa, a fine dining restaurant in Neiman Marcus in Ala Moana Shopping Center with Chris, Nate, Becky (Dr. K), Marta, and the birthday girl, Lillian. I had scallops with spinach, portabello mushrooms; corn bisque with lobster. Home, sleep.