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Hawaiian chocolate & Kona coffee

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  Tomorrow is another moving day, from Kona to Honolulu, and the flight is 8am, so I might not have to write blog. I’ll add pics from today and short writing for today’s adventure.  This morning, I cooked American breakfast: pancakes, bacon and eggs. I cooked for 9 people and it was a quiet hassle. I’ve been already but now respect Ms Treva extra more, every time she cooks breakfast for all of the family of 10. (John just swing by and said I’m being a brown noser, but I’m not. I seriously thought about Ms Treva while I was cooking. The reason I was offering to cook this morning was because I’ve been watching her cooking for 10 all the time and she makes it look like it’s not a big deal. I just learned it sure is.) Then we went to the local item stores to get Original Hawaiian Chocolate Factory’s item. That’s one thing we all (me, Ayako, my mom) wanted. Unfortunately we missed the chance to go to visit the factory, but their item should be available in some stores.  Ayako ...

Let’s relax, we’re in Hawaii

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  After a full schedule moving day, we were exhausted and wanted to have a relaxing day. So, pretty much we didn’t have any strong plans, besides we sent parents to a Swedish couple massage and visited a local recommended beach.  Ayako & I went to a quick shopping to the convenience store for breakfast. They also had rice balls and Japanese style bento boxes. We grabbed variety of stuff so we can pick whatever we want to eat.  It was the first Swedish style massage for my parents. I helped them to translate what they need to keep on (although they said they can be totally naked if my parents want to, they decided to keep the underwear on lol). The rest of us wanted to walk around the Kona town, so we tried to arrange who drives which car, and it was Ayako’s first driving in the United States with her international driver’s license. I’m sorry but it was scary lol She’s not a bad driver, but the sense of the which-side and how-far the side is totally off, since Japanese...