Wednesday is the day of the swap meet a Aloha Stadium and it is a not miss visit. Before shopping for your trinkets and gifts at the resorts, go to this swap meet and you will find most things 1/2 price or less. I bought several Christmas presents here. It is held at the Aloha Stadium and encircles the whole place. You can get food, t-shirts, blankets, jewelry and local goods for very low prices.
We pick up Lora and head tot he North Shore. Along the way we stop at the Dole Plantation Visitors
Center and the place is filled with everything pineapple! You can find food items, clothing, pineapple shaped and scented items but the best was the pineapple whip. It is a soft serve pineapple ice cream.
In addition to the tourist items, they have a small display of different types of pineapple. I never thought of pineapple in different varieties, but like an apple, there are several. At one end they have a large koi pond where you can feed the fish.They also offer a short train ride and a small botanical garden walk for an extra fee.
Off to Haliewa for lunch in the North Shore. There is a small park that is filled with 5-6 food trucks,
so we pull in to make our choices. Oahu is filled with food trucks much like we have fast food restaurants on every corner. I had one of the best home made burgers ever at this small food truck. Patti like the garlic shrimp from Giovanni's where the garlic out flavors the shrimp!Next stop at the He>I store (He is greater than I). I have seen these decals on cars for years and didn't get it, but it is very clever. Right down the road is the Clark Little Gallery and et me tell you that large photos on metal are fantastic! Clark is an extraordinary photographer to begin with, but putting his images on 4' x 5' metal is so lifelike. He now sells these images for $1200-$2500 and offers hats, t-shirts, socks, coffee table books and many other photographs for sale. I follow him on Instagram and you can feel the ocean waves in his images.
We stopped at a local beach and stayed for sunset and it was beautiful.
Last stop is another food truck that produces malasadas. Patti and Gary try to explain that it is fried dough shaped with different filling. So I am thinking, kahula pork, eggs, cheese, pineapple and other Hawaiian delights. So when Patti ordered cinnamon and showed me....it was a donut!! A no whole in the middle cinnamon sugar donut! But I will say they were warm and lighter than our usual donuts. Gary had chocolate in his, I liked them with cinnamon sugar.
It was a long but great day.
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