we arrived in honolulu hungry which worked out
well because we were able to head straight to our reservation in waikiki at tonkatsu ginza
bairin i ordered the kurobuta pork loin kotsu with curry rice and my fiance got the specialty
pork tenderloin katsu set and they both came with miso soup and salad and they were both good and
really crispy but we both agreed my kurobuta pork was definitely juicier and tastier so that's
what i'd recommend and also the curry was amazing dinner was maguro brothers and they already had
a really long line 15 minutes after they opened we got our order after about an hour
of waiting and i'd recommend it to anyone who loves sashimi but be prepared for wait later that morning we went to our snorkeling
reservation with pure aloha adventures and i picked it because they just had really
great reviews so we went to the dock across honolulu got on the boat and then we had a
sail out further from the shore to get to where we are actually getting into the water
to snorkel it was a perfect clear day with beautiful weather and we got an amazing view
of the honolulu skyline during the boat ride after snorkeling we went to inaba
where they make fresh soba noodles and it ended up being one of my
favorite meals of the whole trip the good food day continued at miro kaimuki
for dinner where one of my best friends works we were actually celebrating her birthday that
night and this is more of a fine dining spot with a five-course tasting menu with french-inspired
japanese food and it's about eighty dollars a person before add-ons but everything we had
was amazing so flavorful and so interesting and honestly i think it's really underrated
right now in terms of food in honolulu if you're looking for a nicer dinner during your time
on oahu i definitely recommend checking it out we arrived where we were zip lining and
after gearing up and some instructions we got into an atv and rode through the farm which honestly felt like a jungle to get to
the top of the hills to the zip lines thank you do i look cute looks good it's perfect for the weather the next morning we wanted to try the musubi shop
close to our hotel for breakfast where they sell a huge variety for a really reasonable price but
they also have a bunch of really cute merch like buttons shirts bags and masubi kits i actually
ended up buying a bag and t-shirt for myself but we ordered our spam misubi one classic
one with egg along with spicy cod romeo and a curry tuna which were all really good and
then ate that at the hotel before heading over to the kcc farmers market the main
reason i wanted to go to a farmer's market during my trip was to try local food
that wouldn't be available at home and it didn't disappoint i ended up buying
a couple different local products to try but there were a ton of things that i
don't typically see back home in california the farmer's market was walking distance from the
diamond head hike trailhead so we headed straight there afterward and it was really rainy and cloudy
at the beginning of the hike but as we started getting closer to the top the skies were getting
more clear and we still had some beautiful views so we had a big breakfast the next day with misubi
from the same place as the day before along with our hotel breakfast some local papaya and
longins from the farmers market which are kind of similar to lychee and after breakfast we
headed to the hardest hike of the trip which was coco head and even though the hike is only a
mile and a half it's a straight steep incline the entire way up these old railroad tracks so
definitely had to take a bunch of breaks but the nice thing is that there are still views along
the way that just get better the higher you go there was one stretch called murphy's bypass
that was a little scary because there's no solid ground beneath you
as you step over the tracks do you feel and baby tell me if you need my wonderful fiancee thought it'd be a
good idea to do yet another hike right afterward and makaputu is a generally easy
hike but i definitely wouldn't recommend doing it after a hike like cocoa head so
please do not follow my fiancee's example but with that said the views
were undeniably beautiful can someone tell me why every time for dinner we went to sato seafood it's
an underrated spot right next door to the hugely popular marugame udon which always has a
pretty outrageous line down and around the block and sato is never as crowded but honestly
they deserve just as much as a crowd they sell hand rolls and poke that were
all excellent definitely recommend and right in the same plaza there's a
dessert place called mantra cafe mico my favorite thing there of all time is
the vanilla and matcha swirl soft-serve on day six we started the morning with just the
hotel breakfast which still had some really great local fruit and then we drove to our last hike
of the trip at manoa falls and this trail was very unlike the other hikes that we did very
super rainforest jungle like and really unlike anything that we had ever seen but like many of
the other hikes in hawaii still super beautiful what is this then for our post hike lunch we tried yet
another poke place in the neighborhood called off the hook where we got a combo poke bowl to
share along with the pokey sampler and man you are really spoiled for choice when it comes to
poke and oahu because they were all really good we actually moved hotels for our last two nights
because we got a free suite with points with hyatt so quick room tour we had a spacious bedroom
with a lot of dresser space plus a separate living room area which was actually really nice
where we looked over the spa and wading pool from the window and you can also kind of see the
beach in the very back behind the pink building is me conflicted with what you said i tend
to second guess myself like too much just a face just
