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Deep Sea Fishing Off the Kona Coast

March 24th, 2011 · 3 Comments

At 5:30 a.m. we got up and headed down to the Honokohau Marina near Kona. Chris chartered a boat for us to go deep sea fishing! I thought it would be really expensive, but we were able to get a private boat and captain for a half day and it came to about $50 per person and we got to keep any fish we caught!

Captain Bob took us out on his boat, the Thrill Seeker. When asked what kind of fish we wanted to catch, I said “Delicious ones!” Danny planned to cook up the fish we caught for dinner that night, since they were staying in a condo with a full kitchen and grill. Captain Bob said he’d try to get us some ono, ahi or mahi. I think he also goes for marlin (black, blue, or striped).

At the marina, before heading out, we each took Dramamine. No one wanted to be stuck out on a boat for 4 hours puking their guts out because they were seasick.

Unknown side effect of Dramamine: Drowsiness. Not even just a little tired… but like crash-out sleep!

The good news is that no one got seasick. The bad news is that we all slept for most of the boat ride! The good news? No one missed anything. The bad news? We didn’t miss anything because we caught ZERO fish!

We did get to see some schools of spinner dolphins and a bunch of whales, not humpbacks, but a smaller kind of whale.


Sign in the bathroom: “Please do not put anything in the “head” unless you have eaten it first. “Head” is boat-speak for “toilet.”

At the end I was kind of disappointed, but it’s not like Captain Bob can guarantee that you’re going to catch fish. He did tell us that about 35% of his customers are repeats because they’re happy, so I’m sure he catches fish often… just not with us! As Chris said, “this is why they call it fishing, not catching.” So, we paid for a chartered boat to take us on a beautiful sunrise trip, basically. It looked like this. For four hours:

Since we still wanted to Danny to cook us dinner, after we were done fishing (or not fishing) we went to the Bite Me Fish Market at the marina and to Costco in Kona to buy fish and things for dinner!

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Hanalei Valley & Lappert’s

March 17th, 2011 · No Comments


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From Queen’s Bath, Jess, Ted, Richard, Amanda, and Stephanie went to Kilauea Lighthouse to watch the sunset. Paul Baker, Kate, Tien, Shannan and I decided to check out the Hanalei Valley Lookout….

…. and then, more importantly, stop for Lappert’s ice cream. As if there would be any doubt about it, I got the Kauai Pie, my favorite ice cream ever! It’s Kona coffee ice cream swirled wtih chocolate fudge, coconut flakes, macadamia nuts and vanilla cake crunch. Someday I will try another flavor, but not this day! This was my only Lappert’s on the whole trip!

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On the first day of the trip some friends made a Costco run and we had them pick of several bottles of white wine and several of red. We were buying the wine for our wedding and needed to know which to buy cases of. During the week we had wine tastings and chose a white wine, but somehow we never tasted or picked a red wine.

Well, Jen didn’t go ziplining and just hung out by the Ho’Onani pool all day, so I assigned her the task of tasting the reds and picking one! Tough day for her! So, Jen texted me her choices and on the way home from the North Shore we met up with Dallas, Matt and Ross at Costco in Lihue where we bought a case and a half of our chosen white wine (Menage a Trois California White) and our red (Mirassou Pinot Noir). Yes, everyone had a menage a trois at the wedding!

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The smell of a man that showers in the joyous tears of falcons while climbing up a mountain.

February 10th, 2011 · 2 Comments

On the back of a 3-pack of Old Spice body wash that Dallas bought at Costco.

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Dallas’ Spring Rolls

November 29th, 2008 · 4 Comments

A couple weeks ago we were watching Food Network and for about 10 seconds they showed someone wrapping a shrimp in some sort of wonton or wrap or roll. This got a brain worm in Dallas’ head that he wanted to make it for Thanksgiving… never mind that he never had before and didn’t have any sort of recipe.

Last weekend when we rented car to go to Wisconsin we also ran errands. We ended up going to Costco, Jewel and Whole Foods to get everything we needed… it turned out we were making spring rolls, which I didn’t even realize until we were buying the spring roll skins. About mid week Dallas made a couple rolls and we taste tested.

On Thanksgiving we started making spring rolls. Well, Dallas did most of the work. I just chopped up a few things and prepared the skins. We made a few with different ingredients and sauces and adjusted until we got to something we really liked. In the end we did shrimp marinated in 7 Paths Sesame Ginger Sauce, diced jalapenos, chopped cilantro, chopped leaf lettuce, diced water chestnut and chopped green onion. We tried a bit of Thai chili sauce but it was too hot with the jalapenos. For a dipping sauce we used Iron Chef Sesame Garlic Sauce because it was a bit thicker and it had a sweetness that offset the spiciness of the jalapenos.

What we didn’t think about is how labor intensive the rolls are. Not hard to make, but tedious. I mean, you have to stuff and roll each one and get a technique down. .. which our technique was a little sloppy. .. but at the end? Everyone seemed to love them. It was a fun, unique addition to our meal and was fresh and light in comparison to the other comfort foods that we eat at Thanksgiving.

A couple notes: We got two different kinds of spring roll skins. The ones on the left in the photo below were square and a bit thicker. The ones on the right were round and a bit thinner. Dallas preferred rolling with the thinner round skins.

Not the most attractive presentation, but we layered the rolls between sheets of damp paper towel so that they wouldn’t dry out. Dallas saw online that you were supposed to serve spring rolls within a few hours or they’d get dry. Using plastic wrap and damp paper towel helped keep them moist even until the next day when Dallas and I and Jill and Brian ate the leftovers.

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Confusing Snackster Labelling

October 12th, 2008 · 3 Comments

We sometimes buy these Hershey’s and Reese’s 100-calorie packs of Snacksters at Costco. They come in a multipack and have boxes of the chocolate flavor and boxes of the peanut butter flavor. Typically we store them in the cabinet like this. What’s annoying is that when you look at them they seem as though they’re labeled with what’s inside. So you want chocolate? Take a pack from the box with the Hershey’s logo on it. In reality, the labeling is promoting the other flavor, so the box with the Hershey’s logo contains the Reese’s snacks. So annoying.

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