so i just got back from honolulu with my homie jonbrown
and my homegirl kirra
After our first soccer game, jon and i got packed up an ready to bounce out to that airport. We both had giant backpacks stuffed to the brim with clothes, food, and cords. Around 3:30 AM, before leaving, we decided to make a giant pan of nachos instead of ironing our nice clothes for first class. It was probably one of the best descicons of our lives... those were some “mucho grande bueno” nachos! We left my house around 4 AM and had a very smooooth time going through security. This may not sound too unusual, but it is actually a very rare occurrence when Jonbrown and I travel together, infact, i think it is the first time nothing went wrong. Anyway, we got to our gate and boarded the plane but had a very turbulent ride to San Francisco. There was no one clownin on my kicks this time, cuz i was wearing hiking boots!
When we landed in SF we had to rush to our Honolulu gate but we got there and on the plane on time. We were sitting in the middle seats of the middle section of the plane. Because we habnt slept the previous night, we spent much of the flight dozing in and out of sleep, but was all good, bra, no worries!
We landed in the ‘Lulu and exited the aircraft directly into Kirra’s open arms. It was pleasant, but very surprising. Plus we were still half asleep, so anything with as much energy as Kirra had the potental to give us heart attacks. So we changed out of our fresh business casual and into really cool outfits consisting of shorts, hiking boots and t shirts, we looked like serious tacky tourists!
Now, what is the greatest thing about Hawaii? a.) weather b.)surfing or c.) hawaiian BBQ.
If you answered c.) Hawaiian BBQ, you are CORRECT!
So we had some the first of a few hawaiian bbq plate lunches (chicken kastu/kalbi) then went swimming at Ala Moana park, even though we hadnt waited 20 minutes after eating. I warned Jonbrown but he is just such a rebel...
I seem to have forgotten everything else from that day up until we arrived at our campsite on the leeward side of Oahu several hours later only to discover it was a hobo village, but it was all good.
oh wait no, we went to waikiki and walked around and my main man jonny b bought hizzself a fresh pair of $4 sandals from one of the world famous ABC stores. then we went grocery shopping at Foodland, then had saimin, THEN went to our campsite.
After setting up camp, jon and I ventured to the bathroom, which is an expirience i will not soon forget. words cannot describe the filth of this place, that only seemed to be exagerated by the fact that it was pitcj black outside and the building was lit with one very ghetto anti-vein finding (with drug needle) light. There was a hole in the wall with two little strings cominig out of it wiggling up and down. Curiosity go the best of me so i went and took a closer look and found myself staring into the eyes of the cockroach king himself as he sat upon his thrown. This was seriously the hugest most cockroachy cockroach i have ever seen, or ever will see, i assure you. So then we all got into our tent and fell asleep. We woke up in the morning in extreme pain from the lack of comfort offered by a somewhat rocky dirt ground with no pad or anythiong. Very painful indeed...
but regardless, we were ready to attack the day.
We had a healthy breakfast of dry frosted flakes, sun chips, and chewy bars, then hit headed out to find a trial we had read about that would lead us to the highest point on Oahu. We got to the trial head and started out hike but for some reason the description of the path was very wrong. after about a mile we decided this was the wrong place and went back. We eventually found the correct trial head and began our REAL hike. Several hours later, we came back down the same hill, tired and “sunkissed”. No one but the three of us will EVER know exactly what happened and what we had to do to get out of there alive, but I will say it involved many trial forks, wrong turns, high cliff edges, trial mix, boulder throwing, tree destroying, nut tripping and a dried up creek. oh and a wild bore.
Oh and if Jon and I had our way, we might still be in there right now. Who is to say if thats a good thing or not. None but The Great Eagle Spirit!
So feeling beat, we scarfed down some L&L BBQ plate lunches, in the company of hundreds of flies, then went swimming at a beach in Waianae, before buying some tarter sauce and heading back to our campsite. We sat on the rocks by the shore and ate sunchips and m&ms and brushed out teeth then went to sleep. The next mornign we woke up and headed back to Honolulu, to our hotel in Waikiki. We got checked in nice and early, and headed to Diamond Head. We hiked diamond head quickly with ease, enjoyed the view, and headed back down and back to our hotel. Kirra wanted to go to the beach to mack but Jon and I told her that it is disrespectful of women to flirt with them as a sport and she quickly changed her chauvinistic ways and we decided to go to L & L for some orange chicken instead. It was very delicious, though we spent most of the meal time talking about either not being able to eat certain foods because we have thrown them up, the size of our bladders (pssst Christina, you were mentioned in this conversation). Jonbrown stole a free refill of coke and we didnt buy the shirts and went back to our hotel. After going down to the beach for sunset we went back to our hotel and jon and kirra decided it would be a good idea to try to throw things out our window and make them land in the pool of the hotel next door. It started with the papa johns pizza ad and ended with the scope bottle. Then we went out to the international market place and a sneakily took a picture with a scarlet macaw and got harrassed my a chinese ring saleswoman, but eventualy made it out to to buy a deck of cards from the shell necklace general store from last time (see last time’s blog).
We took our cards to the beach and played 13 then went and had ice cream and french fries from Mickey ds. It was starting to be the time when things needed to get really cool or really sleepy so we went to Fort deRussy and played Kirra 13, a cool new version where each player stands under a palm tree then you must run to the center to make your play. We played this a little but and did some sounders chants, then decided it was meditation and tea time. So we went out in search of some green tea.
We eventually found some and went back to the room to make it. Apparently a $55 a night hotel does not have proper tea making facilities so we used what we had. With the two glasses our hotel room had, we boiled water in the microwave then poured into an aluminum waterbottle with tea bags inside, CALIENTE on the hands!!! After filling th bottle, we taped the tea bags in place, wrapped it in a t shirt and snuck the glasses out in a backback and headed for the beach. We meditated and drank tea until the wee hours of the morning, then headed back to the room to apply aloe to our sun burns and go to sleep. The mext morning Jon and I were attacked by crazed Kirra trying to wake us up at an hour we didnt even know existed! She wouldnt give up and eventually got us out of bed after some serious physical fighting and hours of trying. Then 10 minutes before we needed to leave, we decided we needed to leave earlier than we orginally had planned so i frantically threw my stuff together and jonbrown rushed to the beach to gather sand and we caught our bus to the airport just in time!
We are back in the mainland
It was another very succsesfull jonny b dommy b vacation, plus kirra k this time and hopefully the kings of waikiki will be back to bless their people soon enough!
Mahalo for reading, bras!
