Touristing + Food Truck Hopping Through Oahu

While I was in Hawai’i, I spent the weekend with a college friend I used to dance with in Na Keiki O’ Hawai’i. I was originally going to hike the Pali Puka trail with her, butttt we opted for a lazy beach day instead!

(If you missed my vacationing on the cheap in Oahu post, my Diamond Head hike, and/or my Waikiki food tour, make sure you check those out too!)

Twas definitely an awesome idea, because I happened to join in on a free yoga class at Lululemon that morning, and apparently tweaked something in my back.

My back had already been hurting a lot  (for a while, it was really painful to even sneeze! ;_; ) due to a month’s worth of working on things whilst lying on my stomach but…rest assured, I’m actually okay now because yay for ocean therapy and movement!

A photo posted by Farrah @ fairyburger (@fairyburger) on Jun 4, 2016 at 4:17pm PDT

Liz and JT have their beach packing list down to a perfect science, so we had everything we could possibly need! We spent Saturday at Sherwood Beach in Waimanalo catching up on life, eating the world, and enjoying the sand and/or ocean.

On Sunday, our first stop was Tropical Farms. If you’re at all a fan of macadamia nuts, you should definitely stop by here! :] They have a bunch of free samples of different flavors of macadamia nuts + kona coffee!

If you watched Jurassic Park as a child…you should also make a stop at Kualoa Ranch!  That’s where part of the movie was filmed! :] We just stopped to look around, but they also offer horseback riding, ziplining, ATV tours, movie tours, and a whole lot of explorations!

A photo posted by Farrah @ fairyburger (@fairyburger) on Jun 5, 2016 at 2:31pm PDT

If you’ve seen Forgetting Sarah Marshall and can recall the part where Rachel (Mila Kunis) and Peter (Jason Segel) jump off a cliff…we stopped there too! La’ie Point is absolutely beautiful…and yes, I jumped. I feel like I have enough content about La’ie Point to make it its own post, so more on that at some other time! ;P

Afterward, we went food truck hopping to obtain sustenance! We got Oasis drinks (sugarcane juice + coconut milk <3) and banana lumpia and stopped at Romy’s Kahuku Prawns and Shrimp (I can’t actually have shrimp, but their corn was good)!

We randomly bumped into another mutual college friend I hadn’t seen since I’d graduated (also from NKOH!) so we all ate lunch together…and then went for a second lunch at another food truck place! (Hooray for fish & chips and shaved ice!)

We also did somewhat of a drive-by of Sharks Cove and Chinaman’s Hat along the way to North Shore! There was a ton of traffic, so we didn’t quite get to hit up all the places on our list, but I like to think we put a good dent in it! I just need to move there so I can finish the rest of it! :P

Our last stop was at the Turtle Bay Resort since my friend is a part-time Polynesian dancer and performs there twice a week. :]

A photo posted by Farrah @ fairyburger (@fairyburger) on Jun 5, 2016 at 9:07pm PDT

I decided to go up during the “audience participation” section to support my friend and she told the band I’d just graduated from med school and was on my post-graduation celebration trip. I ended up getting roped into going onstage with one of the dancers. (Why did I not see that coming?)

So here’s me just wingin’ it. (It was a lot of fun though! It also made me really miss dancing, so I’m super glad that it’s back in my life again, kindasorta!)

A video posted by Farrah @ fairyburger (@fairyburger) on Jun 9, 2016 at 3:34pm PDT

• Which of these places would you have wanted to stop at most?
• If you’ve been to Hawai’i, what’s your favorite eatery/place to go?
• How do you feel about audience participation at events? Have you ever volunteered as tribute?

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