Honeymoon in Hawaii, day three.

Today we spent most of our day off the resort property. It was a good change of pace, and the flea market we went to at Aloha stadium was a neat place to shop around. I'd highly recommend visiting the outdoor market the next time you find yourself on Oahu with a few spare hours. I stocked up on work socks, lots of shirts (@ 8 for $20), and nice work socks ($6 for 5 pairs).

Next on our list for the day was the Dole plantation. But don't think that we pass a 7-eleven without stopping for a Musabi first.

I really think they ought to sell these delictable wonders in the states. In case you don't know what a Musabi is, it's a seaweed wrapped rice and spam snack, and costs about a buck. Really quite delicous, try one if you get a chance, but be warned this is not a low carb food.

We'd passed by the Pineapple fields during our last trip here, on our way to North shore, but this time we made sure we stopped.

This is home of the largest human maze and the Dole fields that produce most of the islands and US states Pineapple. Perhaps you've heard of Dole? We took the Pineapple express train (a 20-minute tour) that circles some of the fields and helps give a little perspective on how Dole influenced the Hawaiian islands and it's diverse population. I won't spoil it for you, though this is another recommended stop for your next trip. As we've done in the past, we stopped at Matsimoto's grocery store for a refreshing treat. I really get a kick out of saying that, because this place is not known for selling groceries. In fact, it's known for their world famous shaved ice. Well worth the stop, but it was a bit out of our way. I didn't realize we'd end up backtracking about 20 miles in some of this islands' worst traffic. This was the first trip we've had the BlackBerry 8800 GPS to use to aid us in getting around.

The restaurant we've gotten used to for our daily breakfast let us down this evening. The buffet that we both ordered looked good at first glance. In fact, I'm sure the food was good. The problem was the food wasn't getting refilled. In fact, about twenty minutes went by after our first plate and the selection had been further reduced. I ended up going straight to dessert, but not after letting our server we were disappointed. It didn't sound like we were the first of her tables to complain. So now you ask, what did they do to make this up to us? They comped our wine. Wow, glad we ordered the house wine. Disappointing considering we've been there every day.