Sunday, March 2, 2008

Some new adventures!!!

We got an awesome deal renting a Jeep for a week. Now that we are both finished with our work assignments here we've been given a few days to continue to sleep here with nothing but free time. Now its time for some exploring...

That's Midnight, a work trader busy with rat assignment on the hood:

Having a chance to drive around the island under our own propulsion has been AWESOME!!! The first night that we had it we drove up to Hilo for a late night diner run. We went to Ken's Pancakes with Caroline, another volunteer here. It was like a traditional New Jersey Diner with a Polynesian flare. The coconut or macadamia nut pancakes are served with a variety of tropical fruit syrups-- coconut, lilicoi, or guava. They were totally awesome. After this we did what any other local would do in Hilo at 10:00 pm, we went to Walmart. Seemingly normal activity, the Walmart in Hawaii has a myriad of treasures. From a wall refrigerator unit displaying leis to the wall of rainbow aloha prints. Craft supplies here are dangerously tempting, and slightly unusual.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

With all those bolts of cloth mom would lose her mind! :) I'm glad you're enjoying yourself, send me back a Hawaiian shirt hehe.

Jenna said...

oh man pretty :D

black eyed susans kitchen said...

Midnight is a beautiful cat! Did you know that if you click on the pictures, that you can enlarge them? Well, I can see the fabric very clearly, and if they don't rearrange any of them, I can choose a few. Can you find out if they are 100% cotton? Great colors. The scenery and the trip to the lava flow are awesome. So glad that the two of you are experiencing this. Love, Mom