Hawaii Day 6- Hike to Diamond Head

So today, after breakfast, we packed up and decided to head out to hike Diamond Head Point. We heard that it has amazing views, and it is a fairly easy hike. After talking with one of the hotel concierge people, he had said he has even seen some asians hike it in heels. Haha not recommended. So we made the journey to Diamond Head. We wanted to go early, because if you wait to go too late in the day, I guess it is a pretty popular spot, so it just ends up getting crazy busy. Which..yeah...we no likie!

So we got there, and we started up the mountain. It was pretty easy, until you reached nearing the top and it starts getting a lot more strenuous...and then at the very peak..you basically have a squillion flights of stairs to the top to navigate. So, Yes, a high touristy area..but wonderful all the same..

We overheard this guy tell us, that the day before some guy put his kid on his shoulders and then totally ate it coming down the stairs, and I don't think he died..but he got seriously hurt..like honestly..what are you thinking!?! You weren't...Obvs.

Anyway though...pictures will tell it best..

Pretending to die...I didnt.

On our way up!

Abandoned stuff

So populated

A rainbow for my picture!

More abandoned things

The peak from the bottom

After we did the hike, we wanted to basically have a beach day...but the parentals wanted to go to this Hilo Hattie place...they had been raving about it all the days..Turns out..it is like Hawaii threw up in this store..seriously every cheesy Hawaiian tacky thing/typical souvenir you can think of..was thrown into this shop.

Just to get a glimpse...

The worlds largest Hawaiian shirt

Ugh totes Vom.

They even had these hula girls in blue tinsel glistening hula skirts, dancing to Mele Kalikimaka..really!?!

And they had these things where you pick your oyster...and then they ring a bell, make you yell ALOHA!! as they "bless" your pearl, and then they open it and see what color you got. I had to do it..I wanted my pearl dammit..and I got a pink pearl. Boo. I wanted a black pearl.

Anyways, after that, we were basically donezo with all of the shopping and stuff, and we wanted to just eat dinner and hang out by the beach. So that is exactly what we did, and just kind of kicked it the rest of the night.

xoxo



Hawaii Day 5 Character Breakfast & Surf Competition

So being that we were staying at a Disney resort, of course we had to attend a character breakfast!! I fell in love with character breakfasts when Jason and I went to one in Disneyland. They are so amazing, especially for the Disney freak, like myself. You get a delicious breakfast, with amazing food, and you get to meet the characters-Win.Win.

So we decided to try out Aulanis' character breakfast. We were not able to secure a reservation, but we got up super early and were basically the first ones down there to try and get on a wait list. We succeeded! They told us that they were not sure, and we would only get in, if a family cancelled. Well lo and behold our names were called first! We were the first ones into the character breakfast, EEK!!

So this one is really cute, because they have this sweet old Hawaiian lady come around and dance and sing while she plays on her ukelele. When you first come in, she stops you and tells you about her secret recipe Hawaiian Sweet bread, and gives you the recipe, then you get your picture taken with Mickey, and then proceed to your table.

Early morning at Aulani

Still dark!

Just some flowers they keep at the front desk for your hair, mine would never stay!

I joined the side that loves Disney for breakfast

Totes Adorbs.

Minnie Mouse wears Hawaiian dress..of course she does

Please forgive the ick factor face..it was early...but I was definitely double fisting the drinks

I am not sure what the point of this picture was..but I think we were stealing pastries for the day

After breakfast, we decided to head to the North Shore, because they have been having competitions for the Eddie Aikau surf competition. In order for the wave to be suitable for the "Eddie" it has to reach a minimum of 20 feet. They have only held this surf competition 8 times total, because of how high the swells have to be. They only invite 28 surfers, and a jet ski is not allowed to tow you out to the waves. Pretty dangerous if you ask me!! But they have been having "Eddie" type waves, so we went to check it out.

Unfortunately, no Eddie waves were to be had, but they still had pretty big waves, and plenty of surfers to boot! We went to this first beach, and there wasn't a whole lot going on. We didn't spend a ton of time here, but when we left the waves were definitely picking up!

Here are a few pics of this beach...

Starting to curl...

Squall!

My little foot prints

Makes me want to watch Blue Crush

Since the waves were not very big at this beach, we decided to head over to Turtle Bay because we heard there were a lot more surfers there, and that the waves would be bigger then what we were experiencing here..

This is what we saw..

I would be so nervous to be out there!

Just like in the movies

Seriously amazing. Some of those guys are so fearless, I am so jealous...hopefully I can be like that someday! After walking by some of the surfers that had been out there, I over heard one of them saying that the waves were crazy that day, and he was suprised not one person had been injured yet..Yikes!!

Watching all that surfing made us work up an appetite. We went to Kua Aina Burger and Sandwich shop. This place is seriously amazing!! I guess they have one in Japan too! But anyway, these burgers are GINORMOUS!! I could not even put my mouth around it..and they put WHOLE avacados on your burger. I wish I was kidding! Seriously so amazing. It was delicious! MM I am craving one now. No pics, because I was wanting to eat my burger so bad.

After we went to Kua Aina, we decided to walk around a little bit at the few shops they had there to settle our food and do some shopping a little bit. I didnt see anything I couldn't live without...oh except for Hawaiian shaved ice...with the ice cream in the middle!! Seriously...MMM.. So we of course had to stop. I got 3 flavors in mine, Cake Batter, Strawberry, and Orange. If that doesn't sound amazing, I don't know what does. So we had that, then were pretty much ready to take off for the day. The rest of the crew wanted to stop by a few surf shops to look around, but Amanda and I just waited in the car.

After we left the North Shore, we came home, went to a not so yummy Teriyaki dinner, and then pretty much went to sleeps.

xoxo