From now on, I should always spend my birthday in Hawaii because it's just awesome to be in Hawaii on your birthday!
I woke up the morning of my 39th year of birth and we meet our friends, The LaScala's at Sloppy Cakes for birthday breakfast. We also ran into some of Dan's (the grooms)family. I had marked it as a place to visit but had delegated it to a maybe list. It wasn't looking like we would make it there but the LaScala's suggested it as a place to meet up to celebrate my birthday. I am really glad I went because the food was delicious! We later found out, that everyone who was there for Bree's Wedding tried and loved Slappy Cakes. It must have been the lemon curd sauce! Hum? ...Basically, the theme of this restaurant is pancakes. You can either make them on a griddle at your table or you can have the kitchen make them. We elected to have the kitchen make ours and we made the right decision. Hubs and I decided to share two orders of pancakes. So we go the blueberry pancakes with lemon curd sauce and then we ordered a multigrain peanut butter with chocolate sauce. We also ordered biscuits with gravy and an order of maple bacon. We agreed the blueberry with lemon curd was the winner but really, everything was tasty.
After breakfast we had an hour to burn before Bree's Day After Brunch so we headed to Front Street to this little shop with the cutest knickknacks. I had spied it on one of our earlier walks of front street and vowed to return with cash in hand. I looked a long while. They had cases of gorgeous jewelry, it was hard to elect one thing. Luckily the lady was nice to show me several pieces until I found a gold bracelet with a pretty blue green gem and starfish. I also bought a starfish candle that smelled so good, magnets, and a turtle because I always have to buy a turtle when I am in Hawaii.
Happy with my purchases we walked around town going in a few more stores until it was time to go to Dave and Verona's. We immediately jumped into the ocean and stayed in the water for hours. There is just something about being in the ocean that is so relaxing. We visited with the LaScala's, Bree, and other wedding guests. We spent all afternoon there. In the afternoon, we took Gabriel on a walk with us to get some shaved ice. Once again, I got the Pink lemonade and Sour Apple. It was sooooo good.
When we returned, we left to go back to our hotel. I had to grab the gift certificates we had bought for the place we were going for dinner. We drove about 50 minutes to the Hami'maile General Store which was a restaurant and not a store. The place is run by a popular Maui Chef. Everything looked so good. I perhaps ordered too much food but oh well. I started with a cocktail, then had wontons, then a cesar salad, next roasted tomato basil soup, and then sushi napoleon. I ate so much I actually didn't have room for dessert and I really wanted to try dessert there too. Oh well! We had an enjoyable meal the three of us. Penny got a great kid's pizza and hubs actually ordered the sushi Napoleon as well.
As we got in the car on the way home Penny started singing happy birthday to me. It was the sweetest thing ever and I got teary eyed. She continued to sing it on the way home. I will always remember her sweet voice. Plus, I got it on video too.
It wasn't a super busy day but it was just perfect!
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