• North Shore gluttony

    We did pretty well with not over-eating (or over-drinking, amazingly enough) while we were in Hawaii… except for the day we drove up to the North Shore. That day, in addition to the pineapple float and shave ice, we tried all manner of magical things. But we really had no choice. We couldn’t just pass […]

  • Shave ice

    I didn’t know until recently that snow cones, snowballs, shaved ice and other flavored ice concoctions varied from place to place. I mean, some are better than others. Duh. But I didn’t know there actually is a difference between, say, a snow cone and a snowball. In Baltimore, they are very proud of their snowballs. […]

  • Surfing

    I have wanted to learn to surf for a really long time. I know I should have done it in North Carolina, but I didn’t want to do it by myself and Toby was deployed most of the summers. So when we were planning our vacation, I said it had to be somewhere we could […]

  • Pineapple float

    Have you ever seen pineapples growing? And did you know they aren’t native to Hawaii? They were brought over from South America. Now there are lots of pineapples growing in Hawaii — and lots of ways to consume it. The one I was most excited about was the pineapple float at Dole plantation. It’s not […]