Aloha tout le monde!
Last week was full of midterms so there were a few days that weren't suuuuuper exciting, but I still managed to have some excellent adventures!
Peanut butter announcement: I finished off another jar. Such a sad moment.
It comes around too fast every time.
As a post-class, pre-study break, I went to the coffee place next door and got a refreshing iced coffee coz it was hooootttt!
It looks like coke. But it's not.
It's iced coffee.
While sipping on that, I read a novel called Little Kahuna and Da Menehune.
It was so good, 10/10.
Da Menehune are little magical Hawaiian people who can run really fast and are super cute.
This is the coffee scene:
Georgia and I went to Bubbies for ice cream.
They're famous for their mochi ice cream (the balls on the left) which are balls of ice cream surrounded by like, a chewy sweet rice layer.
So you hold it and bite into it.
On the right is our scoops of ice cream + cones coz we get special treatment.
My ice cream flavours were coconut dream and strawberry cheesecake.
And my mochi flavours were red velvet:
Peanut butter and chocolate:
And then a passion fruit one in the background.
Très délicieux!!
On Friday I didn't have class so Richard and I went for a hike up Mt Tantalus which gives you a view of Honolulu and Pearl Harbour.
It was a very long, very bushy hike.
So much bush:
That's Pearl Harbour in the distance:
And this was the view of Honolulu:
It was real overcast so it looked a bit gloomy, but it meant we didn't get super hot on the hike!
Some pretty flowers growing along a power line:
On the way down we walked along the roads which were real narrow and surrounded by bamboo!
Later on, we went to the French/chocolate food festival and I got a yum as cheesecake which I ate while we sat and listened to the live band:
On Saturday morning, we went kayaking to the Mokulua Islands.
It was pretty overcast still but it was a fun (and long!) kayak out there.
We got off on one of the islands and explored for a bit, and we found a "queen's bath" which is like, a super deep tide pool that you can jump into and swim around in.
It was pretty cool coz there were waves crashing around us and we were just chilling there in our tide pool.
Then after dinner, Georgia and I went on a late night Cheesecake Factory adventure, stopping only for Honolulu Cookie Company samples and to go into the Moana Surf Rider hotel:
It was beeeeautiful on the inside.
Gonna make it our new hang out spot.
Then we made it to The Cheesecake Factory!!
We shared two cheesecakes, one was Oreo Dream:
And the other was Chocolate Chip Cookie dough:
And my goodness gracious, they were a.mazing.
Had a good sleep-in to get over our cheesecake comas then we hit Waikiki for some top tanning time!
Swum heaps, sun bathed heaps.
Got Jamba Juice bowls:
Then chilled out at the Modern hotel for a few hours.
Trying to suss out how we can stay in the penthouse.
They have their own private outdoor elevator up there! :O
Went to a bbq in Waikiki with a big group of friends after that which was swell.
When I got home I booked my flights and accommodation for a spring break trip to Maui!!
I'm super excited.
After class on Monday I joined some of the frenchies to go snorkeling at Hanauma Bay.
This was my view from the bus stop:
Not bad.
Then the views got even better at Hanauma Bay:
That's the reef we snorkeled in:
It was so so hot, and the water was so refreshing.
Saw heeeeaps of amazing, beautiful fish.
And this time we saw a turtle!!
OMG it was awesome.
I was like, swimming right alongside it for ages.
Best experience.
He was super chill.
On Tuesday we went to Wholefoods for tacos which were delish!
And then because we like to take advantage of every opportunity presented to us, we caught the bus straight to IHOP to celebrate National Pancake Day!
Free pancakes for all!!
Holy moley there was a lot, but we got through it all!
What a lovely sight:
But it was fund raising for a children's hospital so we donated a bit of money as we left.
Mahalo IHOP!After class today I went on a weeee bit of a shop in Waikiki and Ala Moana.
The new Walgreens is the boooomb.
They even have coconut bras:
And all sorts of good stuff for Easter:
I'll show you my shopping haul. It's all necessities, keep in mind.
A new bikini:
A pair of good old Levi's 501's:
A plain cropped singlet from Forever 21 (it was $4 and i decided it would go with lots of stuff I've got):
A shower jelly from Lush which smells like delicious lollies:
A plain, yet useful cropped t-shirt from Hollister (it goes well with my 501's and my Hollister polka dot shorts from the last post):
The over all haul:
Ok, so it doesn't seem that bad, but I felt like I'd gone crazy.
Maybe it's coz I tried on 10 times more than what I bought and it was super fun and super overwhelming.
Now I'm home and satisfied with my day's work.
I really do feel better after some good retail therapy.
I'll sleep well tonight!
Talk to ya later!
Madeleine
xoxoxoxox
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