Saturday, May 12, 2007
Woke, showered, coffee. Chris drove us down to the hotel. We dropped off Nate so he could pick up his dad. Then Chris, Nate, Brian, Patrick, and I met at the Kapiolani Community College Farmer's Market. Patrick got a Pacifikool ginger cooler (Hawaiian ginger syrup, sweet basil, lemon, carbonated water) to drink. We bought some produce for Wednesday night's dinner. We saw a machine which made rice cakes—it spit them out with surprising force. Patrick and I had breakfast: packaged Japanese food from Xotic Eats—very delicious! I had soba noodles. Patrick had a lunch combo with rice. We drove to the entrance of Diamond Head and met up with Lou. The six of us did the Diamond Head hike, and it didn't seem as hard to me since the last time I did this hike a year ago. This restaurant is freezing cold inside! After dinner we got cream puffs at Beard Papa (808-593-0107, Ward Centre, 1200 Ala Moana Blvd, Bldg 6, Bay 25, Honolulu), stopped at Long's on the way home, then chatted in the living room. Peter and Nate and Brian arrived after picking up Peter at the airport. We chatted until about 10 PM about kitchen disasters, unusual pets, snoring, collector's edition spam. Bedtime.