You’re now allowed to feed the birds, but we just love the doves (cute and small – and the cardinals) – so we bought some bread and had a nice afternoon in the park feeding the birds.

Kim picked us up and took us to a Japanese steakhouse – where we had a lovely family style dinner – ppl. we didn’t know were also seated around the table – you can have a look at the pics below

Kim picked us up for dinner – taking us to Helena’s  for some real Hawaiian food.

Lomi lomi salmon – the bowl with the red tomat and salmon salad.

Poi (the bowl with the purple stuff in) is made from mashing up the core of the taro plant. It doesn’t really taste much in itself, but Kim told us that she added the Lomi lomi salmon – and some chili sauce which gave it a bit more flavor.

Kalua pork - it’s actually pork who is slowly cooked.

Luau chicken - chicken cooked with taro leaves. Taro is often substituted with spinach. It’s all cooked with coconut milk into a mild dish! (really yummy, though it’s looks like green sh*t)

Laulau – (the dish in the top right corner) – is usually pork – and here it was pork and fish – wrapped in taro leaves (and then wrapped in some other leaves) and cooked in an imo – underground oven.

Haupia is a Hawaiian jello-like dessert made of coconut. You can eat it like we did – just as it is, or you can use it in cakes.

This was a really yummy dinner. I didn’t like the poi, but JO really liked it. I think we should open a restaurant in Oslo with such simple dishes!

We drove on to Hanauma Bay – a place we didn’t visit the last time we were here. There are things I like about the states, but there’s one thing I really don’t like – and that is that you have to pay to visit or use what I would call a public place. To get to the beach or use it – you’d have to pay a fee – you can’t drive down to the beach and leave your stuff and then park – no, you then take a train down or just carry all your stuff. I would call this a public place and such places should be free! (there – I said it!)

After Hanauma Bay we stopped at the light house. Well – you can’t see it, but we thought about taking the hike to get there, but we ended up just taking pics of the sea. JO saw a seal – so did the ppl. besides up, but Kim and I think it was only a trick (post continues after the pics)

From Hanauma Bay Kim took us to her fav. beach (which I can’t remember the name of). It was so quiet and nice – quite few ppl and the the sand was so fine I had to collect some. We then took Kim to a place that JO had read about that was in a place called the Fiji Market – which actually are just some tents I think. The “restaurant” was an old indian woman making yummy food in the corner of a store! We had some spicey, hot lamb curry – it was really good, but I’m not used to having the lamb on the bone, but it was stilly really good! We had rothi on the side – there was no nan. As the woman said “we call nan for rothi” – well – it’s not the same, but it was good enough!

On the way home we stopped at Kim’s fav house – it was really beautiful and I can see why she loves it (she’s moving to California with her husband (he already left and started his work there) – I bet they could build a house like this there).

After a long day of driving – taking pics we went to our hotel and decided that we’d go to the Big Island the next day. Kim was nice and called Hawaiian Airlines since the webpage was a “a bit down”, but the woman on the other line was probably in India and didn’t really give us a good deal – so we ended up using the web page as far as getting the flights ($86 per person one way) – and then rent a car from a different agency. I bet we’ll come back with some more nice pics

Here are the last pics of the day – thanks for following us

We were looking for a place called Lulu’s, but since we just had the name and an idea of where it was – well – after walking around the block a few times we gave up on the idea of a breakfast there. So we walked around a bit – bought a new bathing suit and eventually ended up having another brunch at Cheesecake Factory. We asked to be seated where Eleani worked and she was happy as ever! We were seated outside – which might look nice, but with the huzzle and buzzle from the traffic it’s just ok I – Anett (who seems to be the desinated blogger for this trip) had a nice pasta dish with chicken and Jan Ove had some sandwishes with sallad – both tastes yummy as ever – and again we got our drinks to go

We went to the International Marketplace and saw a man with two cockatiels on his shoulders. As we were leaving we saw him again and just had to go and talk to him. One of the birds where 24 + years old – the other one was a youngster called Pocket – since the owner used to carry him around in his pocket when it was young. We got to hold and pet Pocket – what a cute bird! We miss our Kitty!

Kim picked us up at the hotel at 1645 (pm 4:45) and we drove off to Chinatown – which was a bit boring really. We saw mostly homeless ppl. and no cute shops. After a bit to and from Kim took us to her favorite restaurant – some kind of dim sum place. Dim sum are just a lot of small dishes – mostly steamed meat of some kind. It wasn’t too bad – not my best meal, but far from the worse!

I think Kim is a bit bored since her hubby got a job contract in California and left before we got here – so she was so nice to drive us to a comic book store! The kind you see in the tv show ”The big bang theory”. We haven’t counted them all, but came out of that store with comic books for $300 +

We then took Kim back to our hotel – showing her the view Not as good as last time, but still worth a look. Then she got her chocolate! If you’ve ever tastes Norwegian chocolate you know what I talk about! Compared to most American chocolate – this is a taste of heaven

Another nice day here in paradise Meeting Kim again tomorrow for some new adventures