Hawaii 2010!!!

A huge bowl of Saimin noodles. And look at my pretty dress! I love trawling through Crossroads Trading Company for crap I don't need; so this whole trip was a great excuse to wear all the crap I buy there.

The view from our hotel in Waikiki! This is Queen's Beach, it's always sunny and I had no qualms about spending 6 consecutive hours in the sand getting my tan.

The balcony from our hotel room in Waikiki. Also, another great example of dress-prettiness.

This is in North Hilo on the Big Island. Soooo beautiful. Moving here is my new long-term goal.

All the above are from North Hilo. This here is a Banana tree. Those purple things are baby bananas!

All the above are from the Jungle outside of Hilo, on the Big Island. Love, Love, Love.

Local flora. "Bird of Paradise", just hanging out.

More local flora. A "Hibiscus" flower. They live here!

Baby pineapple! In a pineapple patch right outside the door of my friends house! These are "White Pineapples"... they are small, have white flesh and make regular pineapples taste like poison!

This is the kind of Hawaii I like! Ponies in green rolling hills!

Oh did I mention I stayed on a farm out in Hawaii? Here are some sheeps!

Hawaiian farm chickens! Eggs taste better on the Big Island.

Hawaiian Pony with a "Roodle" (1/2 Rottweiler, 1/2 Giant Poodle). Loooove Roodles!!!

This is the biggest flower I've ever seen in my whole frakking life! I had to take a picture of it! Someone was randomly taking a machete to the brush around his barn and found it just growing!

*Le Sigh*

Hapuna Beach, Kona, Big Island... my future home.

Everything comes up Nekayah

I just bought a plane ticket to Hawaii! I'll be out there for 10 days on the Big Island. There, I will ride ponies! I might see some whales. I may even go to the beach. Whateves. Did I mention I will be riding ponies? Yeah!!!
The price was right for a plane ticket, too. Last time I went to Big Island it was like $1,200; and by "like $1,200" I mean $1,230. Sheesh.
This time it was a much more affordable $480. I don't know if it is because I'm going in January, or the economy is still so, so terrible, but $480 is great! Not as stupendous as our $416 round-trip tickets to Europe, but I'll take it!

Pictures will be coming. Now if you'll excuse me: I have to go throw away all the sugar in my cupboards and start working out!

Boston... the blog

This is Landsdown street next to Fenway park... apparently very famous as it was home runs hit onto this street that caused the creation of the "Green Monster" (or 'Mon-stah', if you're from Boston).

This is me eating a Fenway Frank. Look how stupid happy I look! My priorities in life are obvious.

Me, raising a glass of Sam Adams Boston Lager. Once again... my priorities are painfully shallow.

My friend Shannon (the other director in my office) and the other girlie's of Boston '09.

I should explain: Lobster in Boston is like Chicken everywhere else; cheap and ubiquitous! This is a Lobster Roll, a Boston staple like chicken salad is everywhere else. This was bought in a supermarket and was $2. It was chock-full of gigantic lobster chunks and was unbelievably great!

We went to Harvard!!!

The Harvard Library: Nicer than yours.

All Harvard. They aren't joking, they really are better than us. A lovely, old school (see plaque below for dates). But there was a startling lack of Ivy. I had to seek some out...

Seriously, the only Ivy I found at this Ivy Leage school!

The Charles River. Named after King Charles, right next to Havard and a fine representation of Boston's landscape.

We went on a tour of Fenway park. It's REALLY old! These seats are original from the 1910's.

This is me with the "Green Monster". It's the Left field foul wall behind me. I never knew THAT'S what it is, I thought "Green Monster" was the field itself. Nope!

I think my wanderlust is fading because everything is starting to look the same. If you take out the buildings in the background, this could be Amsterdam.

Olde-Tyme Court House, with modern Boston built up around it.

THE MOST IMPORTANT THING I LEARNED IN BOSTON: THE GOD-DAMNED YANKEES SUCK!! GO SOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Beer beer beer!

Why can't we step up our Beer game here in California? We went to a brewery in Boston (btw: breweries in Boston are like Starbucks out here, one on every corner) and they had this amazing beer pictured above. Its a micro brewed Heffewisen with blueberry extract added during the fermentation process! Then, they serve it with Blueberries IN the glass! Genius!!!

The clam chowder in Boston does not disappoint! BUT! It is SUPER clammy, like it's hard for a west-coaster to handle. Tastes of the Atlantic... I'll let you ponder if that's good or bad.

This is at that same brewery. It turns out, they give you free samples of any and ALL beer you ask for! Shannon and I are sporting the "Cherry Bomb". Same principle as the Blueberry beer: Cherries are added during the fermentation process so the beer comes out red (see above) and tasting ever-so-slightly of cherries. Genius.
There are no more pictures after this one because this is when we discovered the free beer samples and I had the (amazingly prudent) foresight to put away my camera before things went nuts for the two ladies pictured above!


So that was Boston! It was never on my list of places to visit but after going, I realize it totally should have been! It's a great, great town with a lot of character, super beer, an idiot-proof public transportation system, tons of history and a Dunkin' Donuts every 6 feet... whats not to love?
GO SOX!