Monday, January 14, 2008

top 10 lessons learned in hawaii

1. bananas, quite possibly my fave food, are local (holy crap: i may have to move there!)
2. not much else is, food-wise, unfort. (guess i won't move there.)
3. holl and i have been friends--good friends--for 20 years without a rift, pause, or break. ('cept for one ill-advised detour on a road trip that caused a bit of feather-ruffling for a few weeks one college summer.)
4. often, we were the youngest and friendliest tourists around (maybe someday i'll blog about the overwhelming percentage of tourists with entitlement and rudeness issues).
5. sand, giggles, and long talks make for quite a restorative sesh.
6. Tales of the City was best read out loud, on a beach. we loved it SO MUCH, and had SO MUCH fun reading it, that we plan to read the sequels during each return trip (did i mention we've decided to make a january trip to hawaii a habit?).
7. my room last year was not haunted (holl decided to sleep in it this trip just to be sure. what a good friend!).
8. shorty pants (what holl calls kids) surfers are more fun (and thrilling!) to watch than their elders.
9. best food is found at Sunshine Markets (kauai farmer's markets) where lady finger bananas and butter avocados are in abundance. mmmmm....
10. returning to seattle (dreary) was much harder than returning to the city (sunny).

6 comments:

jini said...

sounds like a lovely vacation spot. i'm glad it worked so well for the two of you. luscious photos of flowers and greenery. i think i remember things being green.....many months ago. sigh

sarah said...

indeed, the greenery was top rate and quite luscious. the blue skies weren't bad either...

Marianaria Sra. bibliotecaria said...

I'm glad Tales of the City was so much fun. Hope the two of you can watch the DVD sometime.

sarah said...

hi marianaria,

me too--thanks again for recommending it. and yes, we've been thinking about what dvds to bring next year, and that one might be a goodie. :)

nancy said...

WHAT??? coconuts? pineapples? mangoes? none of those are local? Well I tell you, when we go in Feb we're going off our local diet because we're going to eat tropical food whether it's local or not. Now don't tell me they ship in the little umbrellas for the fruity drinks too? Don't tell me you didn't enjoy a fruity drink...

sarah said...

the pineapples and mangoes are local, and if you get one from a farmer's market--at least on kauai--they're delish.

on our fridge, there was a hand-written note that said, "beware of falling coconuts." while sitting on our lanai (that's porch), we witnessed a coconut bounce into the grass from above. alas, we didn't eat it. we *did* enjoy a non-alcoholic fruity drink--some super tasty smoothies from hanelei.