Hawai'i part 3

If you are sick and tired of reading about our trip...I apologize but I'm trying to get it all done before I forget something.  I swear, the older I get, the more I have difficulty remembering anything, unless it's written down and posted in a VERY obvious place, like on my forehead!

So, I was completely amused by some of the things we came across.  For instance, shrimp trucks!  The road between where Chris and Sarah live and where we were staying was only about 5-7 miles but along the way, there were plenty of places to stop and get nourishment...I really wanted to stop and give it a try but I have to admit, I chickened out.  Take a look at these places and tell me if you would have stopped and eaten there!  Lots of people do, but I didn't.

They serve people right out of this truck!

Seriously?!!

This one looked okay but...

Every time we drove by, these places were packed!  Several limos were stopped there so even the wealthy must know something I didn't.
I did, however, eat garlic shrimp at a place called "The Kahuku Grill" and it was yummy!  Unfortunately, I didn't get a photo...I was too busy eating!

On one drive, Sarah & I stumbled upon the Kahuku Golf Course.  Wow!  Having lived in Mesquite where golf is king and where the courses are well maintained and finely manicured, let me just say, this was NOT Mesquite golfing!

This is the clubhouse for the golf course, nice huh?

If you look at the grass to the right, yup, the pale green/brown stuff, that is what the entire course looked like.

Of course I had to add a photo of the fire station

One of the funniest things were the police cars...Or lack there of.  We kept seeing these random makes and models with just a single blue light strapped (literally) to the top of them.  I'm not kidding.  I think we figured out that if you are a police officer, you use your own car and when you're on duty, you strap a light on top and that makes you official!  But what if your car was a piece of junk and couldn't keep up with anyone?

I don't think they care about stuff like that because we also found out that there is no such thing as stealing.  It's called "borrowing" and it appears to be the Hawaiian way.  Stuff goes missing all of the time in fact, a couple of doors down from Chris and Sarah, a girl got her bike stolen, in broad daylight and we were there when it happened.  Incidentally, Sarah had her bike "borrowed" too.
We quickly learned that if you don't lock up EVERYTHING, EVERY TIME, it will get "borrowed"!  Problem is, you never seem to get it back again. 

This is the place were Sarah taught swim lessons for while

I asked Sarah if she had ever gone into this place before.  She hadn't, so I stopped the car and we went inside.  Not much to look at...They had a tiny bit of fresh produce (we bought some star fruit and some apple bananas).  They do sell eggs there but ironically, Dave was told that they ship them in from the mainland.  I'm not really sure why because there are chickens running all over the place!

This is the name of the place used in the movie "Fifty first dates" but it's not the building they used.

We had breakfast here one morning.  Dave and Chris chose dishes that were purely Hawaiian.  Dave had the "famous" Logo Moco and I can't remember what Chris had but it was something like that.  Loco Moco consists of rice, a beef patty, gravy, and a fried egg.  Talk about heavy!!

Dave and I have been to the coastal resort areas of southern Mexico two times and this area of Hawaii was not all that different from there...only a whole lot more expensive.  I can honestly say that the best part about it was seeing Chris and Sarah!