If only I had remembered the camera.

(all the pics in this post are lame because I forgot to bring the camera with us to any of the places we went, so these are all phone shots)

We were up bright and early -7:30am! Why? Because I found a free dishwasher on Craigslist! We drove down to Honolulu to pick it up. It fit neatly in the back of the golf, and we were back home and running it in no time! It works very well considering its probably 15 years old. I'm so happy to have it I could burst :D

 

As you can see they decided to make it Ivory, White, Black, and Butcher-block, that way it would match with every kitchen it was put in lol.

We also had to get the golf safety checked so we can get it registered here. While we were waiting for the mechanics to check it out we walked down to a tiny nursery. They had cool air ferns, waterlilies, all kinds of succulents, and some of the biggest most beautiful orchids:

You can't tell from the pics but several of these had a perfect iridescent shimmery coat of what looked like fairy dust on each of their petals.

We have been using the Unreal Hawaii blog for tracking down good hikes. This time we decided to try Waimano Falls. It was BEAUTIFUL! It was actually a very popular day for the trail so we only went swimming in the smaller top pool. "Cardiac Hill" a particurally steep section on the way back up from the falls has my calves still burning! I wish I had taken my camera so you could be impressed by the size of this root gnarled hill but we'll be back there again and I'll be sure to remember my camera next time. David Chat took some awesome pictures of the same trail back in Nov 2010 so go check those out!

As you can imagine after the hike and the swim were were FAMISHED! Lucky for us it happened to be Eat the Street Mililani. Its a food truck rally where food trucks from all over the island cram into a few parking lots and have a big party. There was live music and delicious food smells everywhere. We ended up having Fire Roasted Guava Chicken from Hula Shrimp and Kalua Pork from Aloha on Wheels. For desert we had the Romeo and Juliet Crepe(Nutella, bananas, strawberries)  from Le Crepe. Here is a picture of the Guava Chicken:

 

All the non-chain fast food is served this way in Hawaii. They are called plate lunches. I LOVE THEM! If we ever live somewhere else I guarantee I will lie awake at night craving plate lunches.

It rained on us as we were getting our food but they had big tents to eat it under so we only got moderately soaked. We need to learn to put an umbrella in the car along with our camera every time we leave the house :)

On a sad side note that night Richard got really Really REALLY sick ( I think food poisoning from the mac salad ) So that was the end of our weekend adventure :( 

He's feeling better today though so that's nice :)

Also, I finally got all the pictures off his phone so here are of some of the gecko friends he's been making.