So I went to Hawaii with my friend Jhumpi. Jhumpi won an award for being a vip.
first we went to Hilo. It is like Ocean Beach there, they call the Salvation Army Sally Ann's boutique and have a lot of county run drug rehab facilitys. We ate dinner at a nice Thai restaurant with a nice guitar player
For breakfast on the first day we went to Ken's pancake house, and the whole wheat cakes were very good. It is a great place and everyone there is very nice and down to earth.
the first day we went to the saddle road to do a little hiking with the intention of ending up at the observatory. It was cool and cloudy, there were a lot of old growth trees and flowers growin up out of lava. We were looking for birds, and we heard a lot of them but we didn't see them, except for a green one and a red one. Also the tour guide forgot the binoculars, dumb@$$.
the red bird was messing around with some red flowers in a tree that reminded me of a bottle brush.
We built up an appetite hikin around and went to Waimea for some chow. The road to Waimea was lovely, with cow fields and wild turkey type birds as well as a pheasant by the side of the road. We didn't see any cows.
We went to some place that had good chicken and grilled veggies for Jhumpi, and I had a veggie burger. Jhumpi also had a Ginger Rogers, which was very froo froo.
There were huge poopies left by 1000 lb pigs, too. That was at the trail, not at the restaurant.
After lunch we took a hike to look at a crater, or cauldera, and lots of big trees. There were people behind us, but they seemed to take the wrong trail and never end up at the cauldera.
It was very pretty, and looked out on fields of lava.
We had some Mochi that we had bought at the 7 / 11, and decide to snack on them on the way to the observatory. Totally unprepared for the texture of the thing, which turned out to be like a jelly fish, I spat it across the car.
Then we went up to the 9000 foot mark at the observatory, on Mauna Kea, and it was cloudy, and there were a lot of Japanese tourists eating with chopsticks. I was tired, and didn't feel up to hanging around waiting for it to clear, so we went back to Hilo, and the Thai restaurant.
