{"id":407,"date":"2009-05-28T00:49:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T15:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/28\/wednesday-2009-05-27-big-island\/"},"modified":"2009-05-28T00:49:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-27T15:49:00","slug":"wednesday-2009-05-27-big-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/28\/wednesday-2009-05-27-big-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday 2009-05-27: Big Island"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n


\n\"Go!
\nGo! to Big Island<\/a><\/p>\n\n


\n\"Ken's
\nKen’s House of pancakes<\/a><\/p>\n\n


\n\"pancakes\"\/
\nPancakes<\/a><\/p>\n\n


\n\"blood
\nblood sausage burger?<\/a><\/p>\n\n


\n\"Kilauea
\nKilauea Volcano<\/a><\/p>\n\n


\n\"Thurston
\nThurston Lava Tube<\/a><\/p>\n\n


\n\"Ning's
\nNing’s Thai Restaurant in Pahoa<\/a><\/p>\n\n


\n\"Lunch
\nLunch at Ning’s<\/a><\/p>\n\n


\n\"Then
\nThen back to Oahu and dinner at Roy’s<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n

\n

1.13.1 Volcanoes! <\/h4>\n

\nWe spoke to Eric the day before or two days before and he was going to
\nHawaii’s Big Island<\/a> after the wedding. I thought it would be fun to
\ndo a day trip, so I bought us tickets (on Go! airlines<\/a> for about $90 a
\nperson) for a day trip. I think this is the first time I’ve done a
\nflying day trip. We were supposed to fly out at 6:40am, but got there
\nat 6:20am and didn’t make the flight. We got the next flight, and
\nmade it there by about 8:20am.\n<\/p>\n

\nEric met us and we had breakfast at Ken’s Pancake House<\/a> which was
\ngreat. I really liked that place. We had done an IHOP breakfast
\nbefore, so I’m sure Risa was like, “Man Americans eat too many
\npancakes!” but I was like “yeah! Pancakes!” We split a dish because
\nlike I said, I think I was about to explode. It was great though. Go
\nthere. Eric had a Filipino sort of burger sausage thing, and it
\nlooked amazing. We had banana pancakes and they were great. I didn’t
\nreally like the passionfruit syrup (too citrus-y) or the coconut syrup
\n(too coconutty) or the guava syrup (uh…) but the raspberry and
\nnormal syrup (not to mention the bacon) were great.\n<\/p>\n

\nThen we hit the volcano. The volcano was cool. Especially cool was
\nthe lava tunnel. We could have used more flashlights. It was super
\ndark. I felt like a real spelunker. I really enjoyed it. We also
\nsaw lots of steam fields, there was lots of stink, and it seemed
\npretty volcano-y all around.\n<\/p>\n

\nFor lunch we planned to eat at Thai Thai restaurant in Volcano Village<\/a>
\nbut it was closed until 4pm. So we went to Ning’s Thai<\/a> in Pahoa<\/a> which
\nmakes the Hippy list. The food was quite good and reasonably priced.
\nThe spicy Tom Yum soup was really spicy, while the pumpkin curry was
\nsweet and tasty.\n<\/p>\n

\nAfter lunch we got a coffee (thanks Eric! Man I am hopped up on
\ncoffee lately) and then hit the airport where we did make our trip
\nback.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

1.13.2 Dinner at Roy’s<\/h4>\n

\nWe had a bit of trouble getting an address, but eventually I got one
\nand we headed out to Roy’s<\/a> for dinner. (Or see yelp reviews<\/a>.) It was
\nvery nice. Since I messed up my Filet Mignon order at DK’s
\nSteakhouse, I got Filet Mignon again and did it medium rare this
\ntime. Very good. They gave our table an appetizer as well: the fried
\nsomething balls that were very good.\n<\/p>\n

\nMy filet mignon was great. Risa had the rack of lamb which was quite
\ngood. I liked the place. The concierge was great. There were a lot
\nof Japanese people there (not a bad thing as far as I am concerned,
\nbut that does seem to bother others – strangely, mostly Japanese
\npeople from what I can tell!) It was nice eating with the Tanaka
\nfamily again, but it would have been nice to have more Evans – Tanaka
\ntime. That is a bit hard though due to the language problems, like I
\nsaid before. I really need to work harder at being a better bridge
\nbetween the two worlds.\n<\/p>\n

\nWe then headed home and brought a bunch of Pyramid Beer<\/a> to the Tanaka
\nfamily. We bought a sampler pack (12 beers, 4 types) when we first go
\nhere, and had half of it left. So we dropped that off at the Moana
\nSurfrider, and Risa’s sister Rie tried on her wedding dress. It
\nseemed to be a fun time all around, except for me because I was
\nexhausted. I brought a book and read, not engaging the translate lobe
\nfor as much as possible.\n<\/p>\n

\nThen we came home and I tried to sleep, Risa stayed up late doing
\nlaundry and playing on the computer. I somehow managed to get bitten
\nby something on Hawaii, so was itchy and had a hard time sleeping.
\nVolcano bugs?\n<\/p>\n


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