Aniversary Weekend

So as Francesca said, I had a late class on Friday so we couldn't really do anything. In that class, Logic, I had my first test and will be ashamed if I haven't got 100% it's that easy at the moment. Come Saturday we were still undecided as to where we wanted to go during the day and where to eat but as we had loads of washing to do before we could do anything we settled on not going far. Ala Moana beach park is only a 5 minute bus ride away so seemed the sensible option. In Hawaiian terms, it was a horrible day, there was loads of thick dark cloud and it rained a couple of times, in real terms it was still lovely. The beach is long but not as nice as Waikiki, quite a lot of small rocks though the sea was amazingly calm as the sea gets very shallow a few hundred yards out breaking the waves away from shore creating a perfect area for advanced bodyboarders. So although the beach wasn't the best, we had a nice time out of our room making the most of the weather and enjoying watching the bodyboarders show off.
When we got back we finally decided on P.F.Changs, an American chain of Chinese restuarants. It's only a few minute walk away so sufficed perfectly. We were seated immediately and served just as quickly. Although I cheekily tried to order a beer (it's been over a month sinse either of us touched a drop of alcohol) I was, unsurprisingly, IDed and my claim of having left my passport back at the room wasn't good enough. Though in fairness the waitress did all of this in as pleasent a way as you could imagine explaining that unfortunately they have to ID pretty much everyone as in America they're big on sending around spies who make sure that people are IDing and fine those that don't.
We ordered VIP Duck and Orange Peel Beef with white and brown rice. And WOW! It was soooo goooooood. Francesca prefered the VIP Duck and I the Orange Peel Beef. Tasted amazing and was surprised that brown rice is as nice as it is, it was also very filling and so we had them put the left overs in one of the American Chinese take-away boxes which was exciting in itself!
To then top the night off we went to the Cheese Cake Factory for cheesecake. Man that place is busy. There was a huge que of people waiting for tables, and then I've heard you're looking at an hour wait before they even call you back (they give you a buzzer). Thankfully, as we were just there for cheesecake we could push through these people and go to the shop. Francesca got white chocolate raspberry truffle and I got chocolate moose. I wasn't anywhere near ready to eat mine having forced so much of dinner down but Francesca fancied going down to the beech and trying hers. So we did, and wow, Francesca get me a bite and wow. Wow. She had a few mouthfulls and couldn't manage any more it was so filling, soooo rich.
On our way back we thought we'd stop in to the Kings Village, the small shopping centre in the Victorian style, as when we had walked past it on the way to the beach it had looked pretty by night. Every day they do a 'changing of the gard' and in the space where that is done there was now a gazebo with music coming from it and a large crowd around it. As we got closer we could see that there was a guy in the gazebo wearing a gas mask with spray cans in his hands. He was spray painting on a small table in front of him, sort of moving along to the music and behind him was a board that said 'art in motion'. I don't know who this guy was kidding, his supposed 'art' was just an A3 piece of paper covered in about an inch of paint from his cans that had all merged into making an iky brown mess. I wanted to quickly move on but Francesca thought that this guy was entertaining. My moaning finally prevailed and we moved on.
That was essentially our day, not a bad little anniversary day, if not on the exact day but was nice. I very much enjoyed my cheesecake yesterday, was once again unbelievably rich but delicious. Although the two slices of cheesecake combined cost nearly $17 they were completely worth it. I'm sure that just one slice could keep a small family going for a week.
Tom