Mele Kalikimaka

is Hawaiian's way to say Merry Christmas to youuu!!!!!

(can't stop singing this song!!)

After some after dinner drinks @ the Yard House last night, we headed home to CRASH from our long day. I also had to be up at 3 am Hawaii time to call back for a job offer that I missed yesterday while hiking. In order to call when the NJ work day started, I had to be up by 3 at the latest to call by 9 am. Ends up she was in a meeting so I stayed awake for 2 more hours waiting for a return phone call. After holding my eyes open with toothpicks, I called back to try again. She was in another meeting, but “this one should be short and she’ll get back to you soon.” So, I stayed up for as long as I could (roughly 20 more minutes) before passing back out/waking up every 5 minutes to make sure I didn’t miss her call again. In the end, I ended up waking up at 9 am and called again, got a hold of her (at the END of her work day) and accepted the job offer!!!! Woo-Hoo! Have to wait til after Wed. to get approved by the board, but all should be good & I should come back home with a job back in teaching:) YAY!!!

After very little sleep, it was time to start our day. I lathered up on my SPF (which I still got burnt anyway) and we headed out to Bogart’s for a bagel works (bagel with sundried tomato cream cheese, capers, sprout, & tomato-YUM!) and coffee!!

Dana and I then cruised over to the North Shore (about a 45 min. drive) and beached it up at the Waimea beach. The waves here are crazy huge!!

You are not allowed within like 20 feet of the water or else you will be called out by the lifeguards over the mega phone, which is quite embarrassing.

This beach is famous for people just coming to watch the surfers.  It’s like stuff you see out of movies. The surfers were far out so you can barely see them on my camera, but check out these waves they were riding…

From Waimea beach we cruised over to pick up a six pack of red stripe and sushi roll for the ride.

Then we headed to Giovanni’s shrimp truck for some deliciousoooo skimps!!!!!

We ordered the shrimp scampi & spicy shrimp.

The aftermath….

The spicy shrimp left our mouths on fire and the whole thing left our hands stained with garlic and butter, but it was AWESOME!!

With our bellies full and our lips numb from the hot sauce, we cruised over to do some shopping in Hale’iwa where there’s tons of little stores full of jewelry, trinkets, art, etc.

On the side of the road there was a fruit stand, so we stopped to check it out.

Dana tried super hard to bargain with these precious little fruit women. The lady asked Dana what “8 + 6 was” to confirm the price, and Dana was like “It’s 2” and the poor lady was so confused. Lol “5+4=9” no “8”…this continued until we got whatever deal we got on some delicious lychee, sour apple, sugar fruits, mangos, and one big green prickly fruit that I keep forgetting its name....

At one point driving to go shopping, Dana pulled over to a beach that’s popular for turtles. It was roped off because of the tide and the lifeguards not wanting people to get swept away by the current, BUT we did see a turtle!! One on the rock (that looked like a rock itself)

and one in the water…

During our shopping excursion, the one lady took some time to teach me about the Hawaiian alphabet.

A = /a/

E = /eh/

I = /ee/

O = /o/

U = /oo/

and whenever the letter “w” is between two vowels, it is pronounced as a /v/, but any other time it’s still /w/.  Pretty interesting…..

After being schooled, we watched the sun set as we took the H2 back to Honolulu.

We chilled out for a bit then headed over to TACO TUESDAYS!!!! @ ChaChaCha’s.

After 2 hours of sleep last night and 2 margaritas I was about to to go face first into the quacamole, so we ate our $2 beef tacos, hung out for a few then went home to pass outtt.

Tomorrow’s another day :)

Mahalo for reading!!!!

Aloha<3

xxoo