Day 3: 06/07/13 Touring tasting the island!
Our wedding rehearsal was the start of day 3 in Hawaii, however, that will be part of the CJ and AUDREY wedding edition series, coming soon... So here is what we did after the rehearsal.
Just so you know in advance, we ate A LOT. Don't judge CJ, it was all my doing... heh
OK first off, Hula Dog.
CJ is such a great photographer!
Our wedding rehearsal was the start of day 3 in Hawaii, however, that will be part of the CJ and AUDREY wedding edition series, coming soon... So here is what we did after the rehearsal.
Just so you know in advance, we ate A LOT. Don't judge CJ, it was all my doing... heh
OK first off, Hula Dog.
cool combinations!!
The relish station
Where the magic happens... and I really mean magic!
My combination: Taro bacon bread, polish dog, hot, mango relish with lilikoi mustard
CJ's combination: Taro bacon bread, polish dog, hot, papaya relish with guava mustard
Pigging out to much delight... ***Lilikoi lemonade was SO AMAZING, too!!!
So good that I want to eat BOTH!!! =)
Read our review of Hula Dog here
On to our road trip to north shore!
We arrived to Turtle Bay resort and decided to check out the beach area
So glad we did because it is beautiful!!
I can't stand how blue the ocean is! I miss this...
my handsome (at the time) soon-to-be husband!
CJ is such a great photographer!
Continuing on our road trip...
I REALLY wanted to try Giovanni's Shrimp Truck so we headed towards that direction next.
Stopped at a little hut area and got CJ a coconut.
Decorated nuts!
Nothing beats coconut water from the coconut!
Trust me, we know.. We LOVE drinking coconut water -- coconut, canned, bottled, boxed. Everything!
FINALLY found Giovanni's!!!
This is what it looks like. All the people inside look really young and fun.
CJ of course wanted the spicy shrimp plate. And I ordered the shrimp scampi!
Shrimp scampi... DROOOOOL
CJ and his extra red hot and spicy shrimp!
Almost didn't take pictures because we wanted to dig in!
(everyday I'm yelpin it! Giovanni's review here)
Had to get a sno-cone afterwards because his mouth was on FIYA!
Next up, we visited the temple in Laie.
Beauts!!! By the way, this is the first temple that I've seen where it's not high up on a hill that you can see miles away... it's ok, location is everything here and the temple was still beautiful!
PICTURE TIME!
I wanted to take a picture in front of this awesome looking tree.
SWIMMING POOL AT THE TEMPLE?!!
As you can see there was an overcast which still looks cool
but I'm sure when it's blue skies it's even more beautiful!
Back to the road we go to head home, we stopped by a few beaches to look around.
Take a look at our vlog in the car... because I know you LOVE watching our car vids!
This is where Hawaiians camp... Next to the ocean! JEALOUS!
Loved these mountains! They reminded me of Jurassic Park so I kept calling them Jurassic Park mountains. They are so distinct to Hawaii though... When we came back to the states, we saw our ugly mountains & realized how much more prettier Hawaiian mountains are.
Our way back into Waikiki we saw this amazing rainbow!
CJ said, "No wonder they have a rainbow on their license plates!"
We needed to drop by a lei shop to buy a lei for my soon-to-be-mom-in-law...
Where do you go for a good lei at a reasonable price? Uh, Chinatown, DUH!
So pretty!! And only for $5!!!
Tired after a long day of traveling... I know, life is rough.
That evening CJ and I went downstairs with my pops to check out the International Market Place and the "block party" that was going on...
Two very important men in my life! (Missing Carl and my gramps)
Me and daddy
BLOCK PARTY TIME!!!! WEEE!!
Obviously our first stop!!!
Blue Hawaii, strawberry guava
Lilikoi, Pistachio, Salted Caramel, and red velvet
My first bite of Blue Hawaii... OMG OMG OMG.
I could've died and lived a happy and full life (OK not really because we still had to get married)
but it was THAT good.
CJ's salted caramel -- we REALLY liked the macarons
I HIGHLY recommend you seek out the macarons from Life is Sweet!
Video of us at the block party.. At the end of the video some girl came up to us and was like "Do you want me to take a picture of you two?!" I was like, no I was just talking to my peeps.
CJ wanted needed picture here because the sky looked amazing!
Some random lady who was nice enough to take our picture.
a little concert going on by the beach.
Ended our Pan-Pacific festival festivities with Aloha Pops!
They were practically out of every dang flavor we wanted
I chose lilikoi (my obvious choice in hawaii) and CJ had the Lychee (I think?) he wanted the passion orange guava, but like I said, they were pretty much out of everything.
POI MOCHI?!!!
CJ wanted to take a pic by this palm tree...
We walked back to the hotel and said our good-nights early because the next morning was Wedding day!!!! yipee!!
Day 1: Click here
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