Hawaii 2017 Day 5

Sunday was spectacular.

We went to the airport to pick up a friend who came from Maui for the day.

Went to Kaka'ako Kitchen, which is ok but not like it used to be. It's all fancy and doesn't have the weird home-grown veggie burger that we used to like. You know -- every once in a while we go to Hawaii and it seems like our favorites are rotating out. This was one of those trips. You roll with it and find new and different places to love.

After lunch we went to the Wiki Wiki One Day Vintage Sale. We ended up buying some Dansk candlesticks. There wasn't much to get into. And now we know.

Our next destination was Barrio Vintage, which I would have not known about if not for our friend who lives on Maui. She is a delightful girl -- an old friend of mrguy's from his recording studio days. I'd heard of her band, which was locally famous, but I've really only gotten to know her via Facebook. While we were planning our trip she saw I was going to Wiki Wiki and said she'd come over. Then she mentioned Barrio Vintage. Awesome shop that sells vintage aloha wear. Has a buyer there whenever it's open for business. On a whim I packed 22 aloha shirts in my luggage for this trip and BV bought all but two. It's been fun seeing them on the Barrio Vintage Instagram feed since our trip, decorating lithe and fashionable models of all sexes. I walked out of there with a sweet stack of bills and got to buy our friend something pretty. They were SO NICE there. Bye, shirts!

I haven't mentioned at this point that it was blazing hot the whole time we were in Honolulu. So hot. No rain. No trade winds. And here we were on the sidewalks of Chinatown in the blazing afternoon. We ended up going to Smith & King for a cocktail. I can't recall how this ended up happening, but the owner bought us a round of breakfast cocktails. Jameson's, orange juice and bacon. Such a sweet lady. And it was mrguy's birthday, too!

 

For dinner we went to Nico's 38, which is another venue where some of our friends have been playing lately. Perfectly fine, but I don't think I'd go there again unless someone really compelling was on the bill. After dinner we took our girl back to the airport, passing the IBM building on the way.

 

What a fantastic day.