We started out our last day by driving up the center of the island and viewing all of the Dole Plantations and farm land. Then we headed to Haliewa up on the North Shore. It is a cutesy touristy town right on the ocean. It has a lot of sale boats and a little harbor. So adorable!
But the best part of Haliewa is the Shave Ice. Matsumoto is famous for his Shave Ice. The traditional shave ice at his store has vanilla ice cream and Azuki beans (japanese red beans) in the bottom covered by the shaved ice flavored on top. You can even get it snow capped which is sweetened condensed milk drizzled on top. I don't care for the beans, but its a must to get the ice-cream when you visit Matsumotos! We had all kinds of flavor variations. Hanna likes pina colada and pineapple, Jake had rootbeer, grape, and cherry, Carter likes grape and watermelon, and I like watermelon/cherry/grape depending on my mood. I think Jared got a rainbow? Gr'ma and Gr'pa shared the original with the beans, because if you've never tried it before you just gotta when you are there! Those of you who know me, know I LOVE SHAVED ICE. Except no imitations in the form of snow cones and such!
I'm drooling just thinking about this day. It was still like 10 in the morning. Shave Ice for breakfast?....only in Hawaii!
We came back to Haliewa after the Waimea hike and ate lunch because we like the city so much. Haliewa Joes was super yummy and we had a great table right by the harbor. The food was awesome. The kids had soup, burgers, and chicken, the grown ups ate: Fish tacos, Hawaiin chicken, and pulled pork sandwiches. This was the best food we had all Week!!
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looks like such a fun trip!
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