A month in Hawaii 2025

The morning start from John’s meeting at 7 AM. He’s a hard-working guy! After that, we had tropical fruit breakfast again lol. We just enjoy all different fruits we can have. Kids hang out on the porch and exploring the nature around the cabin. I was doing some housework like fixing beds, vacuuming the floor, and three of us besides John headed out to Hilo to grab some more cacao beans. It’s his favorite snack now.  They made necklaces with abalone shells We stopped by at the nearby 7-Eleven convenience store to grab a lunch for ourselves. Thanks to Japanese influences, they have bento boxes, riceballs, and Chinese steam buns available there. Oh, I will miss these things when I go home. Although, I happen to find a Japanese lunch place on the way to the chocolate shop. Absolutely no English on sign? Impressive confidence lol! I’m gonna try that place next time. I found there’s a different chocolate shop just around the corner from where we went last time, so we decide to try that ...

  We are trying to absorb as much Hawai’i-ness possible while we are here. Tropical breakfast is one of them. Meg loves starfruits, picky eater Bo accept pineapple, so we are adding it. John loves papaya, and I’m fascinated for apple-banana. Those are small bananas than regular bananas we see at grocery store (Hawaiian local grocery stores carry both kinds), it’s much lighter flavor, meaty texture, perfect size for those who feels regular banana is too big to finish all of it.   Since we don’t have regular power source, we are still depend on solar power. Thankfully, we’ve been having no problem with power for over a week without using generator. Still, at night we try to be conservative for usage of power, we use rechargeable lights. That means, we have to take them out in the sun during the day time. Pineapple is not rechargeable lol but the fruits stand lady told me that I should keep it in warm place one more day, so I let it sit next to the lights while they are charging ...