North Shore adventure

What a fun day today! We hopped in the car this morning and drove to the North Shore (famous for surfing in the winter). We drove past the Dole Plantation and made it to the beach. Then we drove along the ocean. We stopped in Haleiwa for the famous Matsumoto's Shave Ice. Its like a snow cone but a bit more fun.



We had them with the works since we wanted to try all the things you could put on them. So we picked our flavors and then they put vanilla ice cream and azuki beans in the bottom of the shave ice. Azuki beans are sweetened red beans that are in a lot of asian desserts. It was really good, although I should have gotten the small.


Then we drove some more. The houses there are really cute. They are all decorated with surf boards and have beautiful flowers planted. We stopped at a beach where there were about 5 other people there and lounged outside for about an hour. There's no shade so we couldn't stay out for too long because of Brian's sunburn and my potential sun rash. Then we continued and stopped at a roadside stand to pick up some of local sweet corn. They have a Hawaiian variety and I want to compare it to DeKalb corn.

We stopped at a "shrimp truck" for lunch. They are all along the highways and serve the local dish of choice...the plate lunch. You get some sort of meat (shrimp obviously from the shrimp trucks) with a scoop of rice, a scoop of macaroni salad and some cole slaw for about $8-12. Its a lot of food, so we split one. You eat on picnic tables outside. It was fun.

Then we found another beach with an even better view and went for a swim. Not much though because the waves and current was strong. We then took the road around to the windward side of the island (north east) and cut through the mountains we saw yesterday.

Tonight we plan on cooking up our sweet corn, purple sweet potatoes and some steaks. We may go out for some drinks later.

The drive today was cool. You could really tell how they filmed "Lost" on that part of the island. No spottings of any polar bears, mysterious mist, or "the others".

I also touched base with Dr. Le, someone who I thought had filled the position at her practice in Honolulu. Turns out she hasn't and wants to meet me on Thurs. So that was great news. She is looking for someone to take over more of the general dentistry so she can focus on ortho and implants. That may be a good place for me.

Tomorrow we have another day off without interviews, we are checking out houses and hopefully doing something else fun. I still haven't gotten to try poi (mashed up taro- looks like purple mashed potatoes), so I hope we do that tomorrow.