Hawaii Vacation 2010: Girlie Grille

broderic on January 29, 2011

Hawaii 2010/Yakinuku

Best story from the vacation…

Wednesday night before Thanksgiving we make it into Town, Waikiki, to see the Bob. We’re also hungry, so after he closes up shop at the Mall, we go out in search of food.

“We’re gonna go to that Korean barbeque joint next to the strip club.”

And we’re off. Two cars looking for that Korean joint by the nudie bar. The car I’m in stops at the first Korean joint, nudie bar combo we pass. There’s Yakuza hanging out front. This must be the place! In we go.

“Table for 15.” “Right, away!”

“Water.” “Here you go!”

“What’s this button?” “Summon you waiter!”

Five minutes pass.

“Should we order or should we wait some more.”

“How many Korean joints next to nudie bars are there in Honolulu?” “This HAS GOT to be the place, right?”

*BRRRRIINNNGG*

“Where you guys?” “We’re at the Korean joint next to the nudie bar.”

“No you’re not. We are.” “No. We are.”

Sorry, Yakuza Korean grille, we’re at the wrong place.

We’re in the car and drive one more block over. Here’s the Korean joint next to the strip club. Who knew?

But look at this picture. It says volumes about how happy we were to eat yakinuku.

Hawaii Vacation 2010: Azusa in Sunshine

broderic on January 28, 2011

*Nya!*~

This winter is for real. There’s several inches on the ground and it looks like more coming our way. Now if this doesn’t make you want to go back to Hawaii, I don’t know what will.

I had brought my Azusa nendoroid with me to help document where we went. I did because, as an otaku, you do stupid things like that. Bring your doll to work day! Anyhow, I didn’t get too many pictures because my sister-in-law kept harassing me about it making me feel very embarrassed. I know that I shouldn’t have been, but what can you say about a grown man carrying a doll around?

Hawaii Vacation 2010: Desktop Photo

broderic on January 19, 2011

Hawaii 2010/Four Lagoons/Palm Tree Study 2

This picture would make the perfect desktop photo. Don’t you think? Here’s how: click the picture, visit all sizes, select the largest, download. Install as per your own operating system.

I think I’ll install this at work and pretend that I am on the beach.

Hawaii Vacation 2010: This is the life

broderic on January 16, 2011

Hawaii 2010/Go West

Can you make it while living in Hawaii? It is really a beautiful place, but could you make a go at it like our cousin Bob? Is even cousin Bob making a go at it?

But it really is a beautiful place, the fake Hawaii, not withstanding.

Hawaii Vacation 2010: Good Eats

broderic on January 14, 2011

Hawaii 2010/To Hilo and Back/Mmm burger time

It was all about the food. Visiting Bob was a side effect. Wonderful that it happened during Thanksgiving. More like a coincidence.

There was the usual plate lunches of kalbi short ribs, fresh tropical fruit, roasted pig, and fish, lots of fish. Fresh fish. Raw fish. It’s always so good.

Hawaii Vacation 2010: Golf!

broderic on January 9, 2011

Hawaii 2010/Waikoloa Golf/Hit it there!

So you’ve seen me old school that golf on Kiawah Island. Now fast forward 15 years and see that I can still play. Of course my stupid scoring is still at the same place as it was back in the day. Except I can hit a driver now, but my short game is gone to pot. My iron play was also terrible no idea why.

When we were in Hawaii, we played golf a couple of days. This is the first day of the vacation and we had a fivesome going but we still played in under 4 hours. Thanks god as I hate how long a round takes.

Hawaii Vacation 2010: Tropics

broderic on January 3, 2011

Hawaii 2010/Thursday, First Day/Palm Tree Study 1

While it was Hawaii, whose temperature never changes, there was a lot of trade winds blowing. You would think that it wasn’t all that bad, but it was. It was a little bit chilly. Getting in the water took a quick jump or a slow ease into. Once in though, it was delicious. We spent every day at the beach or by the pool and the trade winds blowing finally convinced me to get a wind shirt for the water, a pretty little navy blue one from T&C.

More pictures in the flickr set.

Hawaii Vacation 2010: Drinks

broderic on January 2, 2011

Hawaii 2010/First Leg

Let’s drink. It’s the new year, but we’ve been drinking since Thanksgiving. We needed the drinks considering that it was already 15 hours of traveling and we had not yet made it to our destination. Anytime you travel that long, a beer will taste nice.

More pictures at the flickr set.