Back In Hawaii Post Two

Hello lovelies, I'm back again with another Hawaii post. For those of you who don't know already, i visited my homestate Hawaii on the island of Oahu (I am currently residing in California for school) last July, and I had lots of fun! This is post two, which is another day with my bff, Juvy. We ventured to town again, and this time stayed in the Waikiki area which is my favorite place in Hawaii and one of Juvy's too ~ I really love the touristy cheesy part of Hawaii that visitors love. Especially since they have all the japanese owned unique clothing boutiques here! I vow to do most of my clothing shopping in Waikiki if I ever move back to Hawaii. LOL! That's a promise!

Teddy's Bigger Burger

The first thing we did was stop over Teddy's Bigger Burger, which is this famous burger joint in Hawaii mimicking the 1950s themed burger joint atmosphere, with unique favorites like Kailua Style & Hawaiian Style Burgers. My friend Lani also told me the peanut butter shake here is delicious, I have yet to try it! I used to love going here when I used to live in Hawaii. This time I had the Cajun Burger with garlic fries and Juvy had the teri burger~ soooo good! The cajun burger had the right amount of spice, and tanginess... *drool* I'm seriously craving some right now! and I might just buy a plane ticket just to eat here again ! LOL - Seriously though, I think they should open up one in San Francisco.

Kimo Bean Coffee

We walked around some more and walked into the open outdoor walkway at the Hyatt Regency Waikiki hotel with lots of expensive shops geared towards more rich tourists, and a pretty waterfall in the middle. Decided to refresh ourselves and get some iced coffee. I am so glad that there wasn't a Starbucks in sight. (Although there probably was). I vowed on my vacation that I would try to support local hawaii businesses, so I was glad when we came upon Kimo Bean Coffee. It was my first time trying it (and Juvy's too, I think), so me and Juvy went with something familiar. We each got the mocha blended freeze. It was very refreshing and tasty. I'm not really a coffee aficionado, but I say, this tasted better than all of the other blended drinks I had. Next time I need to venture more and taste their kona coffee which is a must when you're in Hawaii, and also try the Cappuchino Cookies and Cream Freeze, and Coconut mocha which yelp viewers mention here. After taking a break to sip our coffee by the waterfall, we decided to explore more of the shops around the hotel.

Genius Outfitters

We ended the day at two japanese owned clothing boutiques. The first one, was a new boutique called, Genius Outfitters. When I first heard about it, I honestly thought the name was a little lame only because it kind of reminded me of the nationwide clothing chain, Urban Outfitters. But I got over that really quickly, because this clothing boutique is sooooo cute! And it is sooo not like Urban Outfitters! (although I do like Urban Outfitters). Genius Outfitters features more of the japanese trends than the US ones. Since it was summer season, they had a lot of hime stuff like what you would see in Popteen and Vivi magazine, like a lot of basket bags, and frilly bohemian styled dresses, as well as cute rompers, and lots of cute cute hats (similar to Can Can hats). I was in love!! They also had cute frilly lace shorts, cute tote bags, cute keychains.. ok, I'm overusing the word "cute" too much. I literally squealed in here and if I had more vacation money, I would have bought more but I didnt. ;_; *cries* This is definitely on my top 10 favorite Hawaii shopping spots now.

Pineapple County

Afterwards, we headed over next door to Pineapple County, which is another clothing boutique, and ironically smells of Pineapples. I did ask one of the workers though what gives the store that pineapple-y smell, and she told me - so now my living room smells like the store. Now tell me, who actually goes out of their way to make their living spaces smell like their favorite store? Hmm I guess I'm the first ~ LOL. Anyway, Pineapple County is known for their really cute unique tees with their signature mascots. I don't remember their names or if they even have any names, but they're really cute. They have gorgeous unique dresses which are really affordable. Fun fact: Both Pineapple County and Genius Outfitters have the same owner so if you like one store, most likely you will like the other. And tha pretty much sums up our day. We also hit up other cute stores, like Le Grand Marqet, Neo Plaza, Spark, and Happy Haleiwa ~ sorry, no pictures though. ><

Buys

And finally, below are the purchases for that day. Believe me I wanted to buy more, but I didn't have much money. I did make a deal with Juvy that I will send her money later to purchase more stuff from these two stores for me, since I can't right now unless I go on vacation to Hawaii this December (very unlikely though ;_;) Anyway, what I got - Cute bow dress from Pineapple County, denim looking ruffled shorts with suspenders, cute black skirt with middle lined gold buttons, and floral one piece romper from Pineapple County.

Purikura

Before I go, here is the purikura we took for that day. (Stolen from Juvy's page). Sorry, I'm lazy to actual edit each individual one right now. Thanks Juvy for making it easier. LOL. Anyway, that's all for now. See you in the next post!