L & S

Thursday, April 8, 2010

How to Order a Matsumoto Shave Ice

After many years of going to Haleiwa to eat some delicious shave ice from Matsumotos (even since I was a kid!), I have come up with some tips on how to get the best shave ice possible!

1. Order it in a bowl.

This is probably the most important step (and its free)! You just have to ask.

Look how much bigger the bowl is compared to the dinky cone that they give you:

Plus you don't have to pay and extra $0.25 for those plasticky holders!

2. Get ice cream!

MMMmmmmMMMMmm....shave ice is SO SO SO much better with ice cream in it. This rule reflects on #1 because you actually get more ice cream if you get it in a bowl! **We ordered one bowl and one cone...they put 4 scoops of ice cream in the bowl while putting two in the cone.** Ummm, to me thats a huge difference.

You can also get beans on your shave ice....I'm personally not a fan.

3. Try some new flavors!

A lot of people go pretty safe on their flavors...like getting strawberry, grape, or the "rainbow" combination....which are delicious... but I think their other flavors are so much better!

My personal favs are guava, mango, green apple, sour lemonade and creamsicle. Seth likes melona, strawberry cream, and rootbeer.

4. Eat.

My favorite part...

except for when you get it in a cone!! It drips and crumbles onto the floor! Boo.

To sum it all up:

Cone: bad.

Bowl: good.

Soooo yummy!

And thanks to the handsome hubs for being my shave ice model!

Have a good Thursday!

Photoz

Meet my friend Kaui! We dance together at the PCC.

She asked me to take some pictures of her the other day. I swear I told her a million times that I don't really do photography other than for my own "artsy" purposes, and that my only model has been my DOG.....(haha!)....but she wanted me to take them anyway.

And so I did. And it was fun!

She is totally a natural model--so gorgeous! Here are some of my favs:

I didn't think they turned out so bad, eh? We had fun running around the PCC before work and making all of the tourists around us confused. hehe.

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Easter Weekend

I always love Easter weekend; full of candy, the beach, and LDS General Conference!

This time, I made (or tried to make) some easter egg cupcakes.

The cupcake book I have is so deceiving. The instructions make everything seem so simple and the pictures are so perfect---and then I go and make the cupcakes and they turn out nothing like the picture: crooked, frosting everywhere, things falling apart, etc. haha. See the hairy cupcakes? The green "hair" is supposed to be grass...but it ended up making the cupcakes look like they are hairy. I made two and stopped right there while yelling out loud that this cupcake book sucks.

Seth made me feel better by saying "OOOH I love hairy cupcakes!" in a crazy voice and ate them first. :)

Then we dyed easter eggs!

**note: the one that says "poop" is not mine.**

Here's Seth working hard on his "masterpiece:"

Later we ate lunch at my favorite place in the world (Stortos) and then found some colored chicks for sale on the side of the road (see last post)! I wanted one but what would I do with a dyed chick?

We also found a Maori carver who made some of the most unique pieces I have ever seen. My favorite was this giant owl made out of mammoth tusk...unfortunately it was like $350 or something like that. Seth was a sweetie and bought me the most awesome necklace with a small pendant carved out of bone. I've never seen a carving like this. Its supposed to represent everlasting friendship. I love it!