Aloha Sprinklerinos!
So, like the title says, there are gonna be lots of pics of food! And I also realised there will be quite a few selfies too.
I'm just getting more beautiful obvs.
First up is a bowl of udon noodle soup from a Japanese place at Ala Moana:
Mmmmm, that stuff on the left was like, this crispy deep fried stuff that you could help yourself to. So good!
That day was a Friday, so we eventually found ourselves at the amazing Cheesecake Factory.
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| Left: Mango Key Lime. Right: Fresh Strawberry Cream |
We ate these while watching the Waikiki fireworks. Magical experience.
The next morning, Georgia, Shaun and I did the Manoa Falls hike, always a good'un.
Then, because it was Easter Weekend, we went on a search for hot cross buns. We went to Liliha Bakery which had so many delights, I couldn't just have a hot cross bun!
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| Just a small selection of Liliha's beauties |
We took our bakery goods to the rooftop of Shaun's apartment and had a poolside picnic!
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| Coco Puffs! (choux pastry filled with chocolate) |
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| Hot cross buns and a danish |
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| Their version of a hot cross bun |
The hot cross bun was a bit different, it had like, a passionfruit glaze on it, but it had the same sort of flavour and texture as a normal one, so I was satisfied :)
Went to a party in one of the dorms, and a drink was made from boiling candy canes.
Not the best, but it was an experiment!
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| Cookin' |
Georgia and I cooked up some chocolate macadamia pancakes so everyone loved us.
Got a pretty açai bowl from Da Spot:
Made some kumara chips!
Made a salad from lots of stuff I had left over! It had chickpeas, roast kumara, spinach, avocado, celery and lots of italian dressing :D
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| Skyped a few weirdos |
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| Coconut overnight oats with choc chia seed pudding |
I treated myself to a lipstick:
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| This is apparently the dupe for the lipstick Audrey (or Holly Golightly) puts on in Breakfast at Tiffany's |
Got some cheap as food from "Taste of Manoa" on campus. $1.50 per plate!
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| Tostadas! |
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| It was a wee bit spicy - yum! |
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| Chocolate pudding tart! Was so good, I got 2 |
Went to a party in Waikiki then headed to Jack in the Box to get some kai!
But they were closed and only had the drive-thru open :(
But that wasn't going to stop us.
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| Preparing to take on the drive-thru on foot |
They wouldn't serve us, jerks.
But our friend Vincent picked us up and we got our food, suckers!
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| My Pie <3 |
Tried out a super cool place called Banàn. They make frozen banana ice cream in their food truck and serve it in papaya boats!
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| Mine was topped with coconut, chocolate and granola |
On Fridays, they do this thing where you get 3 free toppings if you have face paint on!
So we got whacked some blueness on our faces and got our ice creams!
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| Banàn posted this on their Instagram - we're famous |
Tried out our VW:
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| Photo shoot in the hippie mobile |
Then it was off to the beach for us!
Prepare for lots of pictures of me and selfies
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| Me and Waikiki |
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| So happy with my Avatar face |
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| It's supposed to look like I'm holding the palm trees... |
Selfies of me and Georgia beachin' it:
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| Got a yum as burrito for linner |
And it was Friday, so you know what that means!
CHEESECAKE
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| Left: Toasted Smores. Right: Blueberry White Chocolate |
The next day we embarked on a crazy 7 hour hike to Ka'au Crater.
Had many near-death experiences but I'm ok now.
It was pretty much muddy rock climbing and river crossings the whole way. Good work out!
There were three waterfalls and a crater which made it worth it.
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| Waterfall One |
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| Getting a good posi |
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| The team |
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| Got above the first waterfall |
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| Waterfall deux! |
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| Closer up to the second waterfall |
Getting up that one was pretty tough. Lots of muddy rope climbing!
But we made it. This is the river that leads into the second waterfall:
And this was the third waterfall:
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| The rope you can see on the right is what we used to climb up |
I got this picture off google because I didn't take my phone out around here. I was concentrating on not falling off the waterfall.
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| About to cross a flatter part of the waterfall |
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| Inside the crater - doesn't look that impressive but it was cool in real life |
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| Making our way back down! |
We went down a bushy track which was soooo much better.
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| Loving the hike |
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| My muddy leg |
Slept well that night! My legs were aching!
Probably the most satisfying shower.
The next morning I had a scuba dive up the east coast.
It was A.Mazing!
I was surrounded by beautiful tropical fish the whole time, explored some reef caves, swum with four turtles and saw a shark!
It was the best feeling being down there, exploring stuff.
I couldn't take any pictures underwater :(
But these hills looked pretty cool when I left the dive:
I was staaaarving when I got home so I got a Thai Coconut Curry with saffron rice from Da Spot for dinner:
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| Adding egg to the pot |
We ate it with rice and it was super yum! Tasted just like it was from a restaurant.
And I learnt how to cut carrots without chopping my fingers off!
Tuesday meant cheap movies so we went to Ward Theaters to watch The Longest Ride!
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| Outside the theater |
It was also Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry's!
So we joined the queue for a quick ice cream before the movie.
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| Pretending to be ice creams |
The line went pretty quick and we got our free scoops!
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| Mine was strawberry cheesecake |
Cheap Tuesday also meant $2 popcorn! Wooo!
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| Happy faces after seeing Scott Eastwood ride bulls |
Two movies for $6. Bargain.
Yeah, so that's it for now!
Update ya later alligators,
Madeleine :)
