Waikiki

We drove down to Waikiki on Friday night to eat at our favorite sushi place on Oahu- Doraku! We even had a celebrity sighting at the restaurant-Stephen Rannazzisi from the TV show The League!  Don't worry if you've never heard of him or seen the show...I only recognized his face because Ely's XO had just been telling him about how funny the show is so we watched it a few times, but our friend is the one who actually remembered what show he was from and we googled his name later :-)

Checking out the fish

You can't tell from this picture, but Noah had a crazy grip on Ely's hair!

Splashing in the puddles

Attempt at a family photo (unfortunately, the best one of us was a little blurry)

Family photo #2  :-)

Noah must have really missed being in the sand (apparently shopping is no replacement for the beach in Noah's world...) because he made a beeline for the sand the second he saw it!

Definitely something we don't have in Kauai, escalators! 



Fun fact for you: Kauai is the only major Hawaiian island with a height restriction/ordinance, so no building can be taller than a mature coconut palm tree - which is approximately 40 feet, or four stories tall!

 

 So Noah spent lots of time riding on as many escalators as possible while we were on Oahu :-) 

Group photo with the Goyers at Doraku

Noah drinking out of the funny little glass they brought his water in

Yay for sushi!!! (or ginger chicken, in Noah's case ;-)

Noah saw a couple of Japanese children taking their picture with this, so he had to have his taken, too! Hopefully it doesn't actually say something inappropriate...haha