I love the night life, I love to boggie...

Shame on me. Only two posts in all of September.

So, the night life in Honolulu is not quite like the night life in New York. I still don't have a favorite place to hang out, but I have discovered a few fun things to do when the sun goes down.

1) Indigo's- This is a great restaurant, great food, funky interior, but a little too expensive to make it a regular outing. Then I discovered they have the best happy hour in the state, maybe even in the country. Three dollar martinis and free pupus (appetizers, and I feel like I am a twelve year old sometimes when someone says- "Let's go get some pupus". Me- "(giggle, giggle)"
Now we are not talking mixed nuts and chicken wings, they are serving fresh and healthy things here. Fresh broccoli, wide flat noodles with zucchini, cucumber salad, ribs, shrimp and rice, mixed green salad, and something else I can't really remember right now. And the martinis are delicious. My favorite at the moment is the Lychee martini. Yum. I definately had seconds on both the food and drink.

2) Art after dark- On the last Friday of every month, the Art Academy, convienently located down the street from my apartment, opens up its doors at night for a party. Each month there is a differenty theme. September's was "Hula Couture". Basically they just had a few models dressed in crazy takes on the traditional Hula garb. Apparantly since not much goes on in this town, this was the place to be. The place is gorgeous. Being in a nice climate, there were many outdoor quads to hang out in along with different indoor exhibit rooms and an independent film theater. I had a really fun time and even had my first D-list celebrity citing. One of "the bachelors" was pointed out to me. Who in case you were wondering is about 5'5" and looked like he had just gotten off work on Wall Street with his blue dress shirt and black dress pants. None the less, he had a bevy of ladies around him the entire night. I gave him a winking nod every time he looked my way, but I didn't get a rose.

3) First Friday- This also happens to be tonight. This is when the art galleries downtown stay open late and serve drinks and food. But which ones to go to? I was lucky enough to get a call from my new friend Shanah (pronounced Shawna), to say that she was at a really good party. The theme was "all things small". There was a door in the door that you had to almost crawl into and everything being served was, you guessed it, small. Mini oreos and fig neutons (I may have eaten most of them), mini pizzas, small kegs, etc. I was going to be really upset if they served me my wine in a mini cup, but much to my relief, it was a normal sized cup. We are going to the same party tonight but I don't know what the theme is yet.

So that is all for today. Just three of my favorite things from this week:

1) Seeing a man run past me in Waikiki holding a cement block on one shoulder with his left hand and in his right, pumping a very large weight.

2) A guy coming up to me on the beach trying to sell me two cans of tuna fish for three dollars (Light tuna packed in oil, are you kidding me?????)

3) Tutu calling the receptionist at the doctor's office a "dumb ass" because she asked for picture ID.