Day 5

Today was our first day to entertain ourselves since Aaron was at work. He had to be at the Marine base for a run or something at 5 AM, so we had to get up at 4:30 to drive him there so that we could use his car during the day. After dropping him off, we went back to the apartment to get a couple more hours of sleep.

After waking up again, Ashley had her leftover Chicken Katsu for breakfast, and I planned on eating later. Ashley wanted to check out Chinatown, so we attempted to go find it based on what we had looked up on the internet. Once we got to "Chinatown," it didn't look like what Ashley had expected, so we ditched that idea and just went to nearby Waikiki instead.

At Waikiki, we went to McDonald's so I could grab a bite to eat. I ordered an expensive Big N Tasty with fries and a tray of pineapple (it seems that all meals come with some pineapple). While we were there, we saw that they served not only apple pie, but taro pie. We didn't try it, but we thought it was cool anyway.

We walked along the Waikiki strip just looking in shops, trying to find souvenirs and stuff. We found this cool little area called the International Market Place. There were a bunch of little carts, a majority of which were selling the same jewelry and stuff. After some wandering around here for awhile and not buying anything, we walked back up the strip and got some Häagen-Dazs. We shared a Big Island Dazzler which consisted of Macadamia ice cream, pineapple and coconut ice cream, fudge, shortbread cookie chunks and chopped macadamia nuts, all topped off with whipped cream. It was delicious!

Next, we bought some cookies from the Honolulu Cookie Company. They had free samples of each of their 12 cookie flavors (all in the shape of little pineapples.) We wandered around alittle more, then walked back to the car and headed to the apartment. Not long after getting back, Aaron was dropped off at home by a fellow marine. Then, all three of us went to the Saigon Noodle House for some phở since Aaron had never had it. It was pretty good, but it still wasn't nearly as good as Phở Hien back in Wichita. Aaron didn't seem too impressed by it, but Ashley told him he had to try the phở in Wichita before he wrote it off.

We walked to the nearby Safeway to buy a few groceries. We bought some Applejacks, vanilla wafers, Garden Salsa Sun Chips, and sunblock. We prcoceeded to the apartment and watched Pirates of the Caribbean 3 on my laptop since Aaron didn't remember ever seeing it. Then we went to bed.