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FRIDAY:
We attempted to go pick Chris up from base = epic fail. Security was tight for some reason...whatever. He came over later, met the next door neighbor who is his new best friend, and then made his way up the spiral staircase to our humble abode. Mom and Dad his up a local Italian restaurant for their anniversary, and Chris and I headed to Waikiki to eat at Hy's steakhouse, which was RIDICULOUSLY expensive, yet delicious. We roamed around for a while, went shopping, exploring, and walked on the beach and made it home at a VERY reasonable hour. Sort of.

SATURDAY:
After a lovely breakfast of toasted waffles, we headed to the beach to "get our tan on" and swim for a while. We eventually came back in and went parasailing in Waikiki. Well, mom and dad watched, Chris and I actually went up in the air. It was awesome. When we got done with that, we explored Ward Center (I think) to find coffee and a restroom. But Hawaii doesn't pee enough, according to Chris. There aren't a whole lot of public restrooms. Anywhere. That night we ate at Buca di Beppo's Italian restaurant and it was almost better than Hy's. But not really, that steak was like butta. After attempting to do the cool kid thing and go to a dance club, we discovered that, in fact, we are NOT cool, and just went home.

SUNDAY/TODAY:
Breakfast was a local crepery...they make awesome crepes. And yes, crepery is a word. I got a nice combination of strawberry, bananas, and nutella with ice cream, and Chris got cinnamon apples something...with ice cream. We walked around downtown Kailua, found a cool pair of sunglasses at Macy's that I wouldn't let Chris buy me, and then hopped in Marylan's Cab Van to go to the base. That was exciting...lots of guys yelling at each other. It pretty much looks like what the picture shows on google maps. Yes, I look at it all the time.
As of now, we're getting directions to the luau and gonna have us a good ole time, Hawaii style.