saturday started out simple enough... we woke up early because mom wanted to go to the KCC Farmer's Market... so i dragged the girls out of bed and we headed over the hill... our timing was perfect as we found a parking space right in front of the cactus garden... score...
we started off at my favorite booth, Nalo Farms... great produce, always fresh... next we stopped at the Kukui Sausage booth... pineapple sausage on a bun... yummers... we walked around and found sunny sunflowers and interesting taro delight and yummy paniolo popcorn... we got our produce and headed home to drop off our purchases...
next stop, ala moana center... the hustle and bustle of people moving around us... the yummy smells wafting into our noses from the various food vendors... the excited chatter of a group of teen girls... everyone seemed to be in high spirits...
we made our rounds to our favorite stores... macy's, the apple store, town & country... we finally wound down at barnes and noble... our most favorite store... i could live in a bookstore...
after we got the final shopping trip out of our systems it was time to pick up the real goodies... Baked manapua, sticky rice cake and malasadas... yummers... we headed to Island Manapua Factory in the Manoa Marketplace...
the minute we stepped through the doors my nose was greeted by the yummy smell of baked manapua... aii i ordered one right away... nom nom... while i was devouring my yummy manapua i failed to notice that my mom was ordering ten dozen manapua and rice cake... yikes... i asked her who was going to eat all of those goodies and she replied, "oh, my friends." aii.. how many friends did she have... i politely reminded my mom that she would have to carry all of her goodies onto the plane herself and she quitely relented and setteled for just a dozen of each... lol...
now that all of mom's goodies were purchased it was time to go home and help her pack... that was easier said than done... if you remember, earlier in the week i had gone out and developed a little over a thousand photos for my mom... i really wasn't kidding about that... and she really did organize all of those photos into photo albums... well my a thousand photos and seven albums later my mom was wondering how she was going to get all of her albums into her little carry-on luggage... lol... omgoshie...
so my mom's packing with the help of the el's and they convince her that she has two options: 1) leave all of the albums and come back for them when she's with my dad or 2) leave all of her clothing and take home all of the albums... guess which option she chose... lol...
so my mom's little carry-on luggage stuffed with photos ready to go... the goodies all tied together so that they wouldn't fall apart... it was time to head to the airport... we got there on-time with a half hour to spare... we shared hugs and i called my dad to let him know that we delivered "the package" at the airport and that she would be home soon enough...
well what should have been a short thirty minute flight turned into a three hour delay... omgoshie... i called my dad, my dad called me... we were both so worried about my poor mom all alone sitting in the terminal waiting for the plane to come... wanna know what my mom was doing while we were worring about her...
she was flipping through her photo albums... oblivious to events around her... lol...
the minute we stepped through the doors my nose was greeted by the yummy smell of baked manapua... aii i ordered one right away... nom nom... while i was devouring my yummy manapua i failed to notice that my mom was ordering ten dozen manapua and rice cake... yikes... i asked her who was going to eat all of those goodies and she replied, "oh, my friends." aii.. how many friends did she have... i politely reminded my mom that she would have to carry all of her goodies onto the plane herself and she quitely relented and setteled for just a dozen of each... lol...
now that all of mom's goodies were purchased it was time to go home and help her pack... that was easier said than done... if you remember, earlier in the week i had gone out and developed a little over a thousand photos for my mom... i really wasn't kidding about that... and she really did organize all of those photos into photo albums... well my a thousand photos and seven albums later my mom was wondering how she was going to get all of her albums into her little carry-on luggage... lol... omgoshie...
so my mom's packing with the help of the el's and they convince her that she has two options: 1) leave all of the albums and come back for them when she's with my dad or 2) leave all of her clothing and take home all of the albums... guess which option she chose... lol...
so my mom's little carry-on luggage stuffed with photos ready to go... the goodies all tied together so that they wouldn't fall apart... it was time to head to the airport... we got there on-time with a half hour to spare... we shared hugs and i called my dad to let him know that we delivered "the package" at the airport and that she would be home soon enough...
well what should have been a short thirty minute flight turned into a three hour delay... omgoshie... i called my dad, my dad called me... we were both so worried about my poor mom all alone sitting in the terminal waiting for the plane to come... wanna know what my mom was doing while we were worring about her...
she was flipping through her photo albums... oblivious to events around her... lol...
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