Day 17: Foundering in Honolulu

We started our 17th day by sleeping in a bit. We got ready for the day and made our way back toward Koko Head because we needed to return our SD card (as it apparently wasn’t going to work with our camera). The day before we had seen that there was a Kona Brewing Company right by Radioshack, so we figured we might as well. It was yummy, as always. After we ate and exchanged our SD card for one that would work, we headed to the Waikiki Aquarium.

We decided to take the scenic route which took us around Diamond Head. It was nice…though nothing TOO special. We made it to the aquarium and found a parking space (Hallelujah!). The aquarium was pretty small, but cool. My favorite things that we saw were a really cool octopus, a GIANT clam, and a spotted (and very friendly) stingray.

Unfortunately Nephi started not feeling very well this day and was really tired by this point. We headed to the hotel and took a much needed nap (well he did). Afterwards, we headed to dinner. I had my hopes on getting Thai in Honolulu and I had looked up the highest rated restaurant. We headed that was and got hopelessly lost. That is a lie. You could never get hopelessly lost with me in the car. No truthfully it was confusing, but we didn’t even take a wrong turn…technically.

We arrived at our destination called Siam Garden Café. I ordered the Pad Thai with chicken, extra hot and Nephi ordered the Pad Kea Mow (or something like that…Drunken Noodles is another name for them), medium. Mine wasn’t very hot nor was it very good. Not horrible, but nowhere in the same universe as Wild Ginger. Our service was atrocious, but I wasn’t in any hurry so it wasn’t a big deal. The entertainment was fun though. They had Thai music videos on the television. They were hilarious. Mostly they involved girls crying…because of lame boys (I think). We really enjoyed that portion of the experience.

On our way home, Nephi ran a red light. To his credit he was turning right and in honesty it was BARELY red, but a policeman saw him and pulled him over. Thankfully he had pity on us in our orange Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder and didn’t give him a ticket. There is an expense we don’t have to worry about.

We dropped off our car and decided to get Haagen Dazs (my current favorite ice cream). It was SOOOO yummy. We walked back to the hotel and tucked in for the evening.