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Visiting the Apple Store Waikiki

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Took a quick visit to the latest Apple Store in Hawaii located in the Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center. It is big and surprisingly empty. Not overrun with kids like the Ala Moana store and no local celebrities like the Kahala location. I wonder how the tourist traffic is faring?

The exterior lava rock facade looks awesome. There’s a metallic sheen to it, but each panel isn’t perfectly patterned like every other panel giving the store a strong but organic feel. Here’s a closeup of the lava rock material.


Hey, cool, educators can schedule a class field trip to this Apple Store where students can create projects using iLife or display their work in the store.

On the way to the Apple Store, I stopped by Island Vintage Coffee for a pick-me-up.


They have a good location at the junction point of the escalators of the renovated Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center. Reminder to self, stop getting dark chocolate-based coffee drinks. The dark chocolate is bittersweet making the drink, well, bittersweet.

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Sunday Brunch at Halekulani

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So you spend time watching what you eat, trying to exercise when you can, and getting shown the results through HealthPass. How do you celebrate? You pig out at Sunday brunch at Orchids in Halekulani!!

All hotel brunches are expensive, and this brunch is probably the costliest around, BUT the food is so good! The variety and freshness of all the dishes are all top notch (this is Halekulani after all). You can’t beat the service, not only at the restaurant, but from the entire hotel staff starting with the friendly and fast valets.

Back to the food. Check out the slideshow for more pics of gut busting decadence.

And oh yeah, any outing is an open invitation for any LOST members to attend. I was delighted that Sonya Walger decided to take up the offer and came to brunch. Sonya plays Penelope Widmore on LOST and appeared as Michelle Dixon on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

Unfortunately, I didn’t want to bother Ms. Walger during a meal since that’s a celebrity no-no, so I don’t have a good pic. Instead LOST fanatics have to settle for this LOST-arazzi shot.

From Brunch at Halekulani

The photo album also has pictures from the new Waikiki Beachwalk area and the huge Kapahulu Safeway.

Went to the Waikiki Aquarium

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Went to the Waikiki Aquarium to show our daughter different kinds of fish since she seems to like them. Haven’t been to the Aquarium for years, so it was kinda neat to see what was there again. The jellyfish are fun to watch floating around.

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There’s some big fish on display.

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I never heard of or seen a sea dragon before, but they look weird.

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The seals were swimming around and having fun.

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All in all, an enjoyable outing saying hi to the fish.