ICE CREAM, I want some ICE CREAM!

Saturday, 29 March 2008

We cleaned the bathrooms and did loads of laundry before heading out for a late lunch to Aiea. I wanted to try some Hawaiian food before we decided on catering. So, we went to Marujyu Market, a little place across the street from Waimalu Elementary School. Chris got kalua pig, chicken long rice, lomi salmon, and rice for $5.50, and I got a shoyu chicken plate with rice for $5.25. We took our plates to Blaisdell Park down the road and sat under a shady tree to enjoy our food. The food was good and reasonable. (Plus for catering purposes, they will deliver the food to our party site, which is nice.) Chase enjoyed eating rice and trying to eat handfuls of grass. There were lots of families picnicking, a belated Easter party where people were hiding hundreds of colorful plastic eggs for the kiddies, and a 1st birthday lu'au with a huge tent and two bouncers. The highlight of the lunch was the haupia with shredded coconut inside. Yum! I don't think I ever had haupia like that before. (Although I still love the haupia sweet potato pie at Yama's.)

As we were leaving, we heard familiar tunes coming from the parking lot. "It's an ice cream truck!" Chris said. We went to check it out, the only "big" kids in line with all the little ones. We just HAD to get some ice cream (as the Eddie Murphy skit ran through my head, I must have had a huge grin on my face.). Chris was excited they had the choco taco, and I tried the watermelon bomb pop (After all, that's what the other kids were eating, so it must have been popular, and I love watermelon.) Boy, was it messy, and super sweet, the sherbet-style red ice cream melting down the middle of the hollow stick. Good thing I keep wipes in the car! You hardly ever see ice cream trucks these days, so that was a treat indeed. On a nice, sunny, breezy day like today, the popsicles were perfect.

Tonight, we're going to an HMSA (Chris' company) credit union party at the Sheraton Waikiki Hotel. It's a buffet dinner with supposedly great door prizes. We're dropping off Chase at the Halsall's, so we'll see how that goes. Our last evening event out WITHOUT the baby was the Lion King show in November .... and Chase screamed nearly the entire time because he wouldn't drink milk from the bottle. He should do fine with eating tonight (though he still doesn't drink milk from a bottle), but we'll see how bathtime goes for the Halsalls as well.

Update at midnight:

So, the food wasn't great for a hotel dinner buffet (odd selection), the entertainment was okay (oldies but goodies group and a couple of local Hawaiian bands); we didn't win any of the prizes (ranging from a porcelain vase to a $600 travel voucher), and the parking cost $8 with validation! Probably the most entertaining part of the night (besides Chris' table of coworkers) was the gay man with the bad hairstyle getting his groove during the music and the emcee flubbing up everyone's names and telling way too much information for a 60 plus year old. We both agreed that we do not need to attend this shindig next year, and that going out to dinner with his coworkers would have been more fun. Chris said I get to pick the next "date night" next time. Got to the Halsalls after 11 pm, and although Chase was asleep, he did not have a good time in the bath tub tonight (as we expected). We successfully put him to bed when we got home. Now it's time for me to go to bed as well.

Good night!