Sunrise at Maks.

Sunset Beach

Malia, Tammy, Me, and Wen having a lazy Sunday on the N. Shore.

February has come and gone, 2011 has been flying by. And I'm glad, it seems like just what I need; keeping myself busy, doing things I love with the people I love. 

Last weekend I worked on both Saturday and Sunday, and even though I had Monday off I had to do the Great Aloha Run (running = work). Which by the way I complete in 1.5 hours, cheehooo. And in between all that working and running, I managed to get in dinner with Wendy, Villa, Waikiki Bar night (we hit 5 bars in one night!), and taco night at my house. It was a busy busy weekend. So this weekend I had the entire weekend off, and there wasn't anything else I wanted to do but be at a beach with good company. So my goal for this weekend was to spend 80% of it in a bikini, and that I did. Now I don't get many 2-day weekends, so I felt as if I had all the time in the world to do whatever the hell I wanted, I took advantage of every minute. Here's what the weekend consisted of:

Friday evening

• Eat The Street in Kakaako with mom. Just like last time lines were ridiculous! But I did get to try my first Let Them Eat Cupcakes cupcake (li hing mui mango). LTEC is my old TGIF coworkers Nick and Kawehi's cupcake company, I'm incredibly proud of them! The cupcake was amazing, moist and tasted so delicious, I can't wait to see what's next for them! Also I was able run into a handful of old friends and coworkers.
• Not wanthing to wait in line, Wayne picked me up and we went to eat at Camilias with Anna and Wendy. ALL YOU CAN EAT YAKINIKU! I had the meanest yakiniku cravings all week, totally satisfied it.
• After yakiniku Wayne and I had a Glee Karaoke sesh at my house! "Don't tell me not to live, just sit and putta..." ahhh favoritest Glee Karaoke song right now.

Saturday... longest day EVER

• Sunrise hiking with Matt at Makapuu!! Something I've never done before and it was AMAZING!! We also got to see a whale (I effing love whales).
• After hiking and a beer run at Foodland (that's right an 8 am beer run), we headed to Sandy's and got prime parking spots close to gas chambers. The Bong kids came (Kat, Mark, Chaz, Christina, Rachel, Sean, and Tony) and we spent the whole day posted at the beach. I still couldn't find the guts to get in the water but, we did get to bury Chaz in the sand and he couldn't get up, it was pretty entertaining. Hopefully Matt posts the video of that.
• After 8 hours at the beach, I headed back into town and got ready for an evening with Courtney, whom I haven't seen in forever. We hit up the Melt food truck for dinner, and I got my first taste of the greatest grilled cheese sandwich EVER. You people need to follow @meltHNL on twitter.
• We then headed to Makiki Park to meet up with Matt, Tony, and Christina to play some basketball. Here I thought we were going to just shoot some hoops, it turned into a full court game. I haven't played basketball like that since the college days, so I was pretty rusty. Hopefully we will turn this into a regular thing because I forgot how much I love the game.
• You'd think my night would've ended there. No it kept going with beer pong at Tony and Christina's place. By the end of the night, I renamed the day "The return to college" because cruising Sandy's, basketball, beer pong, reminds me off the carefree college days.

Sunday (lazy day with the girls)

• ROAD TRIP! Time for my monthly trip up country and thankfully it was a wonderful sunny day. I was joined by Wendy and Malia.
• We started with li hing margaritas at Cholo's (it's almost like tradish already).
• After meeting up with Tammy we decided on spending the day at Sunset tanning and girl talking. It was a beautiful day, clear skies and the sun was blazing. I unfortunately was fried from 8 hours at Sandys the day before so I reapplied sunscreen EVERY hour. And Anthony stopped by to visit!
• Someone at Superbowl watching told me that Banzai Sushi at the North Shore Marketplace had the "best sushi" on the island. That being said I of course had to try it out, so before we headed back into town stopped in for a bottle of Sapporo and couple of sushi rolls. Read my review on Yelp.
• Our day ended back in town at a bbq at Magic Island with Ala and Joey. Tired and sunned-out I only stayed for a hour (sorry Ala I'm pooped!).
• Now to ended this wonderful weekend I'm watching the Oscars and typing this.

I'm exhausted, thank you to all my friends (and the weather gods) for making this weekend AMAZING.