Hawaii part 2: more Waikiki

Started the next day off with the McDonald's Deluxe breakfast-- SPAM, eggs, and rice plus Portugese Sausage. The sausage wasn't that great... would have preferred more SPAM instead!

Since Alice was still working, I had another day to explore Waikiki by myself. Went to the Honolulu Zoo, which was ok, but pretty much your typical zoo. There were a few things I had never seen before, like a Komodo Dragon:

and the endangered Hawaiian Nene, which may or may not be related to the SuperDuck:

After the zoo it was the beach, then some shopping, then some soba noodles from an ABC Store, then more beach. Overall, plenty of relaxing time on the beach, but not a very exciting day, so here's a pic of a nautilus I took at the aquarium the previous day:


We met up with Alice's coworker Jen for dinner at Roy's. Now that's what Hawaiian seafood is all about... I ordered the Roy's Classic Trio of blackened ahi with spicy soy mustard butter sauce, hibachi grilled salmon with Japanese citrus ponzu sauce, and Hawaiian style misoyaki butterfish with a sizzling soy vinaigrette. Amazing. I expected to be the least impressed by the ahi, I mean, come on, it's blackened tuna, right? But it was cooked perfectly (i.e., almost not at all) and the sauce was unlike anything I had ever tasted. A chocolate souffle and a glass of wine later, and I was ready to turn in.