A Sweet Honolulu Birthday

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​A SWEET HONOLULU BIRTHDAY

...Continued from previous post:
     The following day, Wednesday, was my grand daughter's 12th birthday. 

     We started off the day with breakfast at the Koko buffet (see previous post).

...with its great food,

...and ocean view.

     After breakfast everyone came up to Tom's and my room for a birthday party, where we all snagged  a spot wherever we could,

...while the birthday girl opened her gifts.

     After breakfast Tom, I, our daughter and grand daughters walked into downtown Waikiki for some shopping.        

     Though Kalakaua Avenue, the main drag through downtown Waikiki, is lined with fashionable Fifth Avenue shops,

...our grand daughters, fortunately, were happy to do their shopping at Kawaii Kawaii (which means "cute cute," In Japanese),  a sort of local equivalent of Claire's,

...and the ABC store, a ubiquitous sundries chain that one finds on every street corner in Honolulu.

    After we finished our shopping we continued down Kalakaua Avenue to the Royal Hawaiian Center food court,

...where we went to the Kulu Kulu Honolulu,

...for ice cream and their famous double cream puffs.

      Then we walked back to the Hale Koa,

...where we later ate lunch at Happy's.

       That afternoon some of our group went out banana boating, though some of us, myself included, opted to forego that activity, I for one preferring a nice stroll around the Hale Koa botanical garden, 

...and along the beach, 

...to being flipped into the sea off a boat shaped like a banana. 
   That evening we all met up at the Olive Garden at the Ala Moana mall for my grand daughter's birthday dinner, where we had a fine time, in no small part thanks to the over-the-top friendly staff.

...who were kind enough to bring the birthday girl a piece of cake and lead us in a round of "Happy Birthday."

      Then we walked across the mall,

...and across the street, to Sweet Creams, 

...for a special birthday dessert of ice cream rolls, a frozen confection made by spreading a thin layer of a creamy mixture on what appears to be a quick-freezer slab, 

...then scraping the frozen layer into frozen curls.

     Delicious frozen curls, I might add.

     We ended the day with the pleasant mile-long walk in the balmy night air from the Ala Moana mall,

...back to Waikiki.