12 August 2011: Honolulu, Hawaii

We woke up late and went down to Jimmy Buffett’s At the Beachcomber Bar (their website is here and their TripAdvisor page is here). Being serious Parrotheads, Cin and I were stoked to be there. We ended up getting some beers and lunch items off the menu…all of which were okay but nothing to write home about. Cin’s sandwich advertised a good quality type of lettuce…and came with iceberg. The same was true with most of what we got…it was generic food in place of higher end stuff and the higher end price tag was still attached. The service was really good, and the chips with salsa, queso, and guacamole appetizer was delicious, but otherwise this was pretty lame. Jimmy, if you still care about what you put your name on, please fix this place.

Between lunch and dinner, we spent time on Waikiki and an incident occurred. Cin and I are fine. But, out of respect for others involved, I’m not going to write about this. I’m sorry but that’s the way this is going to be.

Anyway, afterwards, we headed to Duke’s (again, their website is here and their TripAdvisor page is here) for dinner, having secured a reservation a few days before. The service was amazing…it reminded me of Bloody Mary’s in Bora Bora. I ended up with Huli Huli Chicken and Cin got the salad bar. We had some excellent drinks and then walked back before heading to the Doubletree to clean up. We then went back to the Hilton to view the Aloha Friday evening fireworks, which seemed pretty awesome but we missed the bulk of (I thought they started at 8pm but they started at 7.45pm). After they were done, we headed back and went to bed…ready for a new day tomorrow.