We woke up late on Wednesday with a pretty simple agenda. Walk to the nearby shopping center at Ala Moana and do all the USA shopping that we needed to do in one day. We walked over in the morning just as the shops were opening, and then I went bananas. I got lots of long sleeve business shirts (my proportions aren’t easily available in Japan), business shoes (my size is also not available in Japan), and then we went bought lots of other small things that we’d been meaning to get. My cousin had thoughtfully supplied many things that I was looking for (Rice a Roni, antiseptic cream, and spices) but there were a few other items I wanted (Chef Boy Ardee Ravioli, mint extract). After shopping so hard we went back to the hotel to drop off the loot, and then walked across town to a Japanese restaurant called Gyotaku. Our waitress the previous night had recommended it as a good place to get local (Hawaiian style) sushi, and this place was perfect. We ordered a rainbow roll that had lots of avocado along with the raw fish, and a poke roll that had a wonderful salty/spicy poke sauce with sesame oil. Two rolls of sushi and we were good for lunch.
The rest of the day we spent hiking around town burning calories, sitting on the beach, getting more calories via the hotel bar, and napping in our room. We decided to go out and try to find some good prime rib, since Kuniko had never had it before, but thanks to the lack of internet access on my phone I couldn’t get us there. We stopped for directions and were pointed to the wrong place completely across town, but by the time we got there (around 8 pm) we still weren’t all that hungry. We decided to just get some (more) sushi, this time to go, and we brought back three unusual rolls back to our hotel balcony with a six pack of beer. It was a nice relaxing evening listening to the cheesy hula show below, and looking out over the ocean. We had pretty much fallen into a state of complete relaxation by then.
