Saved By The Bell Hawaiian Style and Beyond
Hi everyone, Deepta here! It’s been a while since our last update but we’ve been up to a lot! First and foremost, we had a fantastic vacation in Hawaii, first stop being the Big Island and second stop Oahu with Daisy and Justin. Believe it or not it was my FIRST time in Hawaii ever (practically a crime living here in California), but it was beautiful. The two islands were very different; on the Big Island we were on the Hilo and Volcano side and all our activities centered around Volcanos, lava and volcano formed nature. In our short time, we hit up the 5 mile Kileau Iki (sp?), black sand beach, lava tube exploration, a helicopter tour and watched a live molten lava flowing into the ocean once it was dark. Pretty awesome. Another highlight was where we stayed. It was a really cute bed and breakfast in the town of Keauu between Hilo and Volcano, and we couldn’t have had a better experience. Best of all, the couple who owned it were fabulous and gave us lots of reccos, not one of which failed us. Oahu was great, but the highlight had to be visiting my best friend Dax and her boyfriend. We really miss her here so it was awesome for her to take us to all the great places and meet all her buddies she’s been talking about since she’s moved there. We went on a mai tai caterman sail at sunset, hung out at the north shore (biggest waves EVER), ate shaved ice and had an unfortunate incident with a malasada (portuguese doughnut). We fit in some snorkeling at Hanauma Bay and hiked Diamond Head and of course ate and walked around all in between.
Onee big glaring thing—our flight back was ATA and it went out of business two days before—AUGHHH! It was a pain and expensive sorting it all out but luckily we are back safe and sound. Overall though, our first bigg-ish vacation since the Honeymoon as a married couple was a success! We’re already planning the next (and sticking to big name airlines!)
This past week was busy at work for us catching up from vacation. We had a rare exceptionally warm spring weekend in SF and we took advantage of it every moment. Friday we had a happy hour—in our balcony (or lunaii as Daisy and the Hawaiians say). This was inspired by our Hawaii trip where everyone always hangs out on the lunaii. Saturday we saw our friends Rene and Martha and went to dinner. We tried to go to Schnitzelhaus in Soma, a fun German restaurant that comes with beer in a boot, but they stopped serving food by the time we got there. Instead we went to Basil Thai down that street, which was excellent. That neighborhood can be considered a bit sketchy, but after living in Berkeley for four years, I am not only not afraid, but a little endearing of homeless people! So I don’t mind. We definitely are going to hit that area up again, we passed a lot of good stuff.
Yesterday, we did our east bay rounds—Didun, my parents and on the way back stopped at Jupiter—one of my favorite bar/restaurants from the Berkeley days that has an outdoor patio. It made me miss those college days….until I saw people with their backpacks, studying ;) Don’t miss that.
Anyway, we have an exciting week ahead of us—this weekend we celebrate Victor’s birthday and are going to not one, but TWO hip hop concerts (we didnt plan it that way but they were on the same weekend)—Kanye West on Saturday and Jay Z on Sunday! I’ve seen Jay Z (or HOV, Jigga Man, Sean Carter if you plase), but I am def most excited about Kanye.
Have a great week and enjoy the nice weather while it lasts! (Unfortunately, it has already dropped 30 degrees today. Boo).
