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Welcoming Center, Management and General Chat => Chit Chat => Topic started by: Halex on October 09, 2011, 08:44:43 pm
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Just a really quick message to say hi.
Hawaii is so busy, our hotel is like Grand Central!
Love hawaii, the food is not quite what we expected, lots of greasy fried food, havent found much healthy food as yet, but working on it. Did find a great italian last night, i had wild mushroom risotto, dh chicken scalopini, ds 1 giant meatball with spaghetti. The food was great. The coffee shocking!!
Beach is fab, water sooo warm. We are of on a snorkeling trip soon.
H
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Anxiously awaiting photos!!
Yeah, Hawaii is not the best place for a lot of healthy food - I was shocked to find deep fried Spam! Oy!
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Hi Hally. Great to hear from you. Sounds like your having a great time.
Deep fried spam sounds absoulutlly discusting. Yuck.
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Hi Hally, keep having fun.
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You sound very busy hally , you will need a holiday when u get back
Yuk that does sounds absolutely revolting
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Could be worth checking out the food at local markets... Have a good time Hally!
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Nice to hear from you Hally - miss the chatterbox on the forum ;)
Keep searching for that healthy food fix, there has to be some decent eating places there somewhere surely.
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l was wondering how your hoilday was going
good to hear your having fun
and l hope you find some healthy food soon
theres only so much fried food you can eat
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Being an American state I believe there is a lot of American inspired food there - if you can call that inspiration! Good luck!
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Hi Hally. Keep enjoying yourself. Have you found any kitchen shops yet?
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We managed to find a few restaurants that served great healthy salads but they were few and far between! fortunately (or unfortunately) we loved the ribs, chips and maui onions rings. We also found an amazing mexican that served the best pulled pork tacos I've ever tasted.
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great to hear you are having a fab time Hally. Pity about the food but it's not forever ;)
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Glad you are having a good time, you will have to do lots of walking to get rid of the fried food. Looking forward to seeing photos
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hope your having fun hally and yes looking forward to photos (think everyone is missing the alien ipad messages lol) :)
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glad to hear you are having fun 8) love to see a pic of you on the beach and we can try and spot you from everyone else (a bit like Where's Wally :-))) I'm sure there must be some nice food somewhere, but if not at least you have that big bit of meat waiting for you at home.
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Glad you're having a great time, Hally :)
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Hope you find some decent food soon!! :-\
But, I bet the beaches and the weather makes up for the bad food!
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Great to hear from you Hally. :)
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Keep enjoying yourself Hally, I think we are spoilt with out TMX food.
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Hi again, not much luck in the food dept yet. Laua so far the best, the pork melted in the mouth and they had a salad, we were the only people that a whole plate of salad!!
Cloudy today so of to a large shopping centre havent done any shopping yet, lots of tours and beach. Pearl harbour was a great tour, very emotional but def wodth a visit.
Went to a magic show poor dh was pulled up on stage, he was not impressed.
Got to find a money changer and of to the shops.
H
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hally go to that outlet store i told you about.....lots of bargains on good quality items :)
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I assume you went to Ala Moana shopping centre - hope you enjoyed the buying Hally - agree with you regarding Pearl Harbour visit. Keep enjoying your break!!! :) :)
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how about the cocktails b4 dinner any good? ;D
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I love laua's - glad you finally got a decent meal Hally. Hope the shopping is rewarding. Missing your postings. :-* :-*
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Cocktails good :)
California wine good too :)
Yes robyn ala moana shopping, huge, but spent short time there as there wasnt a bank to change money. Back to hotel to spend arvo at pool, very nice. Bought ds a load of Lego about 50% cheaper than hime, plus its a new character sets, alien conquest.
Frozzie will do outlets another day WITHOUT DH & DS.
Five o filming diwn the road in 2-3 days time, hoping to see some action.
Car hire tomorrow shoukd be fun.
Still no really heathy food.
Hally
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It was lovely to 'hear' from you Hally.
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can understand that...sounds like your enjoying your break
oooo five O..might see you in a corner of a future episode ;D ;D
thanks for the update :)
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Hally, do look for Japanese or Thai restaurants. The last time I was in Hawaii I found those were the best options for me. I don't eat seafood because of allergy but there are many other options.
Even the Japanese fried foods, such as tempura are much, much lighter than other fried foods I found there.
I do have to admit that mostly I consumed a lot of fruit for breakfast and lunch every day, then walked as much as I could to counter the sugar content.
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Had a great day out with a hire car. DH managed well with it all being the wrong way round!!!!
The scenery is amazing here in Hawaii. No wonder they film so many movies out here. We had lunch in this cute place called Buzzs on the east side, it was the cutest place i have been too. Very busy, it wasn't far from where Lost was filmed and a lot if the cast ate there regularly. Adam Sandler was in recently as he had been filming out here and even Obama has been to this place.
We had the buffet dinner in the hotel last night, some veggies and salad but very pricey $55 each plus tax plus tips! Lovely prime rib too. DH &I ate as much asparagus as we could, it was yummm. The bread out here is sweet its not Nice at all, even the milk is odd!LOL
Today the boys are checking out where the 5 0 is being filmed and i am off to the outlets. Hope to catch the filming later when i get back.
Talk later, missing my TM, it would be great to have it here
BTW sitting on balcony looking at Diamind Head, listening to the waves, its 7am here and surfs up, heaps of people on boards. DH at gym, so i am babysitting.
H
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the hard life :D
enjoy your hols hally and have fun shopping (so wish i was there :P) ;D
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Hally, sounds like a great holiday. Keep us posted, when you have time.
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Great to have wifi,found this a problem in UK and Paris. Had to re- register every 24 hour in our hotel in Paris.
Sounds wonderful, enjoy.
Hally, have you got the iPad camera connection kit, I loved it for transferring my photos while OS, also lovely looking at photos on iPad.
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Absolutely loving it here.
Tired after the day shopping, no cook stores :(
But heaps of clothes & shoes. I shopped till my transport turned up, was thirsty, hungry, needing the ladies but couldnt waste time.LOL, got to keep gooing, got to help the US economy.LOL... ;D ;D
So quiet night in, dh gone to get pizza,yes more fat.... But pizza is the better of the evils. LOL
Sitting on the balcony, sun setting, hotel next door has great band playing so enjoying that.
Up early for snorkeling tomorrow.
Aloha & Mahalo, which is hat they would say.
H :)
H :)
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I love reading of your adventures Hally and the food there.
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Got up really early today to go snorkeling at Hanauma Bay, fantastic, swam with the fish and turtles, it was amazing.
Came home lunchtime, wentu out for brunch as ds was dying with lack of food, even thiugh he had a museli bar and a hot dog. The restaurant was a 20 minute wait so managed to buy a dress while ds & dh waiting!! So cool.
The traffic lights crack me uo, they have a light of a white man walking to cross, so i tell dh & ds cross now "white man walking" we always crack up, we get odd looks, nit sure why!LOL
Lunch well we ordered an appetiser to share, it was huge, chicken quesadellas, the guacamole was yum.
Did some more shopping, then booked ds in for a one on one surf lesson at waikiki beach tomorrow.
Love the shops and the people.
So tomorrw just hanging at the beach, floating in tubes.
On the balcony waiting for the fireworks from the hilton then of to dinner at siome " portioned controlled organic restaurant" shoud be good.
H :) :)
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Hanauma Bay is certainly beautiful Hally - so pleased you are having a holiday filled with such wonderful moments :) :)
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Yes Robyn packing in as much as poss.
The restaurant last night was lovely busy vibe and the food amazing, we all loved each ane very bit, the downside $40 in taxis, so glad we went hough.
Today ds has his 1st surf lesson, so proud he stood up and rode most his waves to the end. Ok waves not big here but we were the proudparents, went to buy the cd of the 59 photos and the chip wasnt working, they are hoping to try it out on another computer tomorrow.
Down to rumfire in our hotel tonight as we have a day out at wet n wild tomorrow.
Still loving Hawaii
Mahalo
Hally
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Went to tne kahala last night, the poshest hotel on tne island. The food the best we have had here, we went by limo it was only $15 more, stretched and streched, 2 tvs, seating at the back and the front and a sofa up the side, about another 1/2 length of limos out here. It was great. Shopping today then the beach later.
H :)
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You are certainly living in style over there Hally. Glad you found a lovely restaurant and good luck with the shopping today. :-*
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Great shoppinng at williams-sonooma
Limo ride for 20 mins $35 cant say no to that
Will take a photo of my purchases when back in perth :)
H
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The sun is shinng, surfs up and its our last day >:( :(
How did it go so fast ???
Shopping and beach, our flight leaves early tomorrow and we get into sydney at 4.30pm, one night then back to perth.
Looking forward to seeing my tm and my cats :)
H
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have a safe trip back home hally and can’t wait to see some photos ;D
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Safe travels Hally looking forward to seeing the pics
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Safe travels Hally
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All good things come to an end Hally, enjoy your final day and I look forward to seeing you regularly on the forum. :-*
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:) Hally, Glad you bought lots.
Have a safe trip back home.
Robyn
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Thank you everyone.
Just had my last float in the sea. I will post jd a few phtos and she can out them on the site.
Hally :)
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have a safe trip home hally and look forward to seeing some photos also :)
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Thanks again,
Well apparantly we are the most photographed family at the hotel, for some reason they love us all. LOL, must be the special lenses they have....Hide celluilte, wrinkles and make you look good.Ll
One photo of ds is being blown up, he is underwater doing a kung fu/combat shot, they love it, they are using it as their promo shot all over america!!!!!!!!!!!!
Plus a few of us are being put all over the hotel.
Go figure, we are just n average family, which is probaby wt tey want.
They are sending all advertising material to us later!!
H :)
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With a free voucher for another stay at the resort Hally ;D ;D
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Gosh who knows J D, tney are loving ds
H :)
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Why wouldn’t they love you hally .............we all do :-*
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wow how funny but an added experience for you all...yes like Jd hope your getting something out of it..I know how much it costs hotels like that to get advertising and models etc..and its a bit cheeky to use hotel guests to use for free without giving htem something in return..but again lovely and safe trip home hally ;D
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Still in Hawaii.
Got up at 5am to get the shuttle at 5.45, in shuttle, receive a text flight home delayed until 10.25 pm, so back to rhe hotel.
We couldnt get our room but we have another room until 7pm tonight, complimentary.
I can imagine some unhappy people, hotel has been good to us, just wish jestar had let us know last night.
Oh well a bonus day in patadise.
H :)
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Don't you hate it when you are all packed and ready to come home - then this happens :D :D :D Does it mean you will still get home to Perth On Saturday Hally? Enjoy your extra day :-*
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Yes still shoud be home the same time. A night flight now which we all hate but an extra day in paradise was good. All in room having some quiet fime :)
H :)
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Hope you all get some sleep on the flight.