Oooo…I just love surprises!

Reece loves to surprise me and most of the time (apart from one occasion) he is successful in doing so.  Airplane rides, no reason flowers, dinner cruises and the list goes on.  I don't mind though, or rather, I quite enjoy it!

We were invited out to a friend's place Friday night to which Reece responded 'We've already got plans'.  We do?  I wasn't aware of this. Turns out Reece had a surprise date night planned for Friday.

Lucky for Reece I still don't know where many things are on our beautiful island. So, I really had no idea what was in store when we headed out to Honolulu. We parked in a parking garage downtown and headed down the street.  We passed by a number of nice restaurants and each time I waited for him to turn in until finally we stopped in front of HirOshi.  It was a small Eurasion (which apparently is a combination between European and Asian) restaurant.

When Reece first got to Oahu he made of list of all the restaurants that he wanted to try out.  HirOshi was one of them.  Being the dutchman that he is, he discovered that the restaurant has happy hour between 5:30 and 6:30 on weekdays.  Half price entrees and $3.50 martinis.  Now that's a good deal.  We ate till we were full (SO delicious) and enjoyed a couple of very tasty martinis.

After dinner Reece had yet another destination on the agenda.  He made me close my eyes this time.  I could tell we had gotten to a parking lot because I could feel the speed bumps under the truck, but he still wouldn't let me open my eyes.  He escorted me out of the car and led me by the hand (eyes still closed) to the entrance of ICE PALACE! A little taste of home in Honolulu.  The ice was bumpy, ridged, thin and crappy and I don't think they know what skate sharpeners are around here, but it made for some very entertaining skating.  Normally I'd consider myself to be a good skater, but in these conditions I looked like Bambi from the scene where he is just learning to walk with his long, awkward legs.  After many laps around the ice, a warm cup of french vanilla coffee and a Churro (I'd never had one of these until I moved to the US) we finally headed home.  Thanks to my hubby for a wonderful evening :)

With love from,
Krissy

Our delicious plate of Swordfish.  Yumm!

Strawberry Lemondrop Martini

So ghetto, but oh so fun :)