PARADISE

Due to an inconsequential time difference of about two hours we fell asleep last night at 8 o'clock. So of course we were up early this morning. We walked over to Ala Moana  mall to get our five dollar bus stickers so we can ride the bus for the rest of the time we are here.  But I had forgotten that at that satellite station they don't have the stickers after about the fifth of the month.   So we took a half hour trip out to the Kahili transit station so we could get our stickers 

We decided to return to the shopping center,  but on the way back we noticed a farmers market that we had been to two years ago that we really liked, and it was next to a Walmart downtown, so we stopped there, hoping John could find a pair of cheap sandals at Walmart as well as go to the nice market. It turned out it was a craft market rather than a farmers market, and there were no sandals at Walmart, either. 

So, back we went to the shopping center, still in search of sandals, where he got some nice Teva sandals and I got a cute new iPhone cover.   

I am so bummed out about the way they have torn down the old international marketplace and are replacing it with just another fancy developer oriented mall with expensive shops. It appears that for the moment they have saved the big banyan tree

that was in the center, but usually things like that end up getting killed when they start doing all the digging and plumbing lines and pile driving.  

Here is a developer's rendering of the new and improved International Marketplace.  All they saved was the name.  

Just for comparison, here are some old pictures I took off the web of the old funky tourist trap marketplace.  

Not much else to say. we had green curry and grilled salmon for lunch. Other than that, just another day in paradise.