Stomach rumbling at 2 pm, I decided to drag Bryan out to lunch with me. I hadn't been to Duke's Beach House since getting breakfast there over a year ago, and since the restaurant was en route to our errand dash, it seemed like the best choice.
The restaurant is located on the Honua Kai Resort & Spa property, and it is gorgeous over there!
The hotel entrance is landscaped with these incredibly thorny flowers. Look carefully at the plant stalk. Ouch! I haven ever seen plants like this before.
The lobby, scattered with comfy dark wicker furniture, is refreshingly cool and spacious. Once you walk through the breezeway you are greeted by a gently curving infinity fish pond.
{I did cartwheels on that big lawn}
The pond is filled with sunset colored koi and clouds of teeny tiny guppies (too small to be captured well with my cellphone camera).
I made Bryan watch the fish for a long while before we headed down to Duke's for food.
Lunch at Duke's was fun and satisfying. We sat up at the bar where we were served by Finch and Adam--two guys that I run into ALL the time in Lahaina. Bryan and I shared the Crab and Macadama Nut Wontons (delicious!), and I got the Arugala and Farro Salad with Fresh Island Fish while Bryan got the Steak Tacos.
After lunch, we hopped back in the car and went to Honokowai to run our errand--
--of going to the VIDEO STORE.
I put that in all capital letters because in this day and age, renting movies from an actual brick and mortar store is so rare. Bryan and I were hunting for copies of Alien and Aliens before we go see the new Ridley Scott Prometheus in theaters tomorrow.
When we got there, both movies were checked out. Bummer. Bryan and I looked at each other in sadness and then wandered aimlessly around in the tiny video store deciding what to do with ourselves.
We were looking like a pair of pathetic souls when the store owner asked us if she could help us find anything. We told her our mission and how sad we were that we had failed.
And then she told us that while we were walking the store aisles listlessly, a guy had come in and returned some DVDs: Alien and Aliens.
Awesome.
Bryan and I set up an account, we rented the movies and now we are going to have an Alien movie marathon tonight.
We are the biggest nerds ever.
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