The day began with trade wind warnings and lots of clouds mixed with occasional rain. Not a very good day to venture out and do more "Hawaiian" activities. These are a couple shots from our window of the front of the condo this am:
and the ocean view from our back door:
As you can see - lots of clouds and nasty winds.
There were things we could do in the condo which gave us an opportunity to rest for the day. I thought it would be interesting for everybody to see the relative costs for items here in Hawaii versus whatever you pay at home for the same items. These examples were from a receipt that we have from Safeway:
6 eggs - $4.00
1 orange - 1.74
2 apples - 2.50
gallon of water - 3.00
store brand small cereal box - 4.00
1/2 gallon milk - 5.00
1 lb bacon - 10.49
paper shopping bags - .15 ea
We don't know how people can survive in this state and this is just a small example of the ridiculous prices. The fruit that we purchased was from Australia and it wasn't anywhere near fresh. Oh, well.
We also did some research on restaurants and decided to switch our anniversary dinner from a recommended Italian restaurant (Assaggios) to Buzz's Steakhouse which had a higher rating and a nice menu. Both restaurants were fairly close and neither was low cost. We made our (early) reservation for 5 PM.
Our dinners were wonderful. Josie ordered Shrimp Scampi and I had their specialty BBQ Spare Ribs with Jack Daniels sauce - yum on both choices. This is the shot that will be our 50th anniversary photo:
We only have one day left of our anniversary trip - tomorrow - and we are hoping for better weather to close it out before leaving early on Thursday. I will get our boarding passes tomorrow and, hopefully, be able to keep our suitcase under 50 pounds. That may be a huge challenge....
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