Friday Night

This morning, Evan, Jon and I went hiking at Makapu'u Point Trail/Lighthouse Road. It was a very neat hike, and great because it is on an old abandoned road, so the entire hike is paved. It's about a 1 1/4 mile hike each way, the views are of the mountains and the ocean. And of course, it's another Lost filming site, as it seems anywhere that's worthwhile to hike on the island has been at one point or another. It was very funny, because Evan wanted to "hike" part of the way. He did a great job trying to walk up some of the hills, and for some reason, does this funny thing when he walks where he swings only his left arm, which you can see in the picture.

We grabbed lunch on the way back from a Mexican restaurant called Azteca. The food was pretty good, but what we've learned is besides various asian and seafood restaurants, ethnic cuisine can be limited in Hawaii. It's difficult when you come from a city like Cleveland that publishes an entire book on Ethnic Eats and compare. I will say that the guacamole was really tasty though, and for Mexican food in Hawaii, this place was great!

We took Evan for a swim in the afternoon, and then he took a brief nap. Jon didn't have to work again this evening, the computer issue remained, so we decided to take Evan over to the Hilton Hawaiian Village to see fireworks. On our walk over, we stopped at the Hilton at one of the shops, The Pearl Factory that lets you pick an oyster with a pearl in it, so Evan picked one out fo rme, and I had a beautiful ring made.

This was Evan's first time ever seeing fireworks. We had a blast. It turns out the best place to watch the fireworks, which we hadn't anticipated, was nearby the lagoon on the Hilton's property. We had actually walked around this back way to try to get to the beach to watch the fireworks, and were stopped by security, because that's near where they launch the fireworks. So, we grabbed a patch of grass and sat down, and were among a group of about ten people to sit and watch the fireworks right near where they were shot off.

We ordered sandwiches from Giovanni Pastrami again, walked over there to grab them and bring them back to the condo and ate, and now the boys are in bed and that's where I'm headed. We leave for Maui tomorrow afternoon.

Good night.