THE BEACH, THE THEATER, THE (PRE)PRO BOWL

We had a lazy day today, though it's not going to sound like it.  We got up and ate our bagels from the bagel truck last night.  Not really all that good, but would have been better warm.  The peanut butter one had a Reese's in it and the chocolate one had chocolate chips, all in the center.  It was a good plan, though. 

Following that, John went to the exercise room to work out, and I went to the pool area to use the hot tub and exercise my arm.  The pool area is quite nice.  Yesterday when I went there, I was totally alone.  Today there were four people playing cards or something. 

The funny thing about this pool area is that, although there is a shower for rinsing off before you go in the pool, there are no changing rooms or anything.  But then why would you need that?  You're staying here at the hotel.  Except that on the exit door is a sign that says "No wet suits beyond this door."  So, you are either supposed to strip and walk to the elevator naked, or lie out by the pool til you dry off.  I'm a scofflaw, so I just leave with my wet suit on. 

Then we took a little walk to the beach, sat around and watched the ocean, and then hopped on the bus to go to the Manoa Valley Theater to see God of Carnage.  We've managed not to see this play in New York and Sacramento, so we finally got to see it here.  It was really a good production.  We both really thought the character who played Alvin (Alan?) stole the show. 

We got up there about 40 minutes early, so we walked around the neighborhood and stopped at the crack seed shop.  Crack seed shops are a Hawaiian sort of specialty.  They sell a lot of things that look Chinese, some things that are, in fact seeds, a lot of gummy bears and gummy other stuff.  We bought some dried, sweet olives.  Can't tell you what all is in them, but I got a hint of ginger, and they are covered in very fine sugar.  Oh yes, these olives are pink.

After the play we came back to Waikiki.  Tomorrow is the Pro Bowl and tonight they were having a 5 hour celebration and street fair with live bands, tschachka vendors and food vendors.  I had the coolest sandwich, which was a whole softshell crab, called a crabcake sandwich.  It was wonderful.  The crab meat was sweet and creamy and because they were deep fried it was crispy and crunchy.  The fries, while thicker than I usually like were also wonderful.

 I'm guessing they use some different type of potatoes.  The sandwich had no dressing, but they offered a tomato based sauce with basil which I put on the French fries, (and would have put a lot more on if I'd tasted it before I walked away from the stand) and a garlic aioli sauce on the sandwich.

 We hung around for awhile, eventually saw a cheerleader, saw a band doing a sound check for about 2 hours and decided to come on back to the hotel. 

And after all that, we stopped on the way home and got an ice cream cone at Hu-La-La.  This time John had Cappucino chip and I had a Maui mudd pie. 


Haven't decided what we'll do tomorrow.  We met a guy at the bus stop today who told us if we take the Manoa Valley #6 bus all the way to the end of the line, we can take about a 45 minute walk up to a hidden waterfall.  That sounds like fun (right now, while I'm sitting around in the hotel room).  We'll see.  We could also just go to the beach.