After several days on the go and with not much time to catch up on business stuff and writing, we took day off. We've got a five day stay in an Airbnb in a top floor apartment of a ten story building in the town of Mililani, about five miles north of Pearl Harbor. Mark is our host, who is himself renting the Airbnb from a guy who rents the apartment from some lady. I know, it's complicated. Mark has a small winery in Oregon and runs a tasting room in Portland. Since he makes some tropical fruit wines, he decided to try opening a store in Waikiki, so he got this place from Airbnb two months ago. He's really busy with the store opening, and takes his handsome and well-behaved black lab Pinot everywhere he goes, so we've pretty much had the place to ourselves.
"Good morning, Kevin. I hope you slept well. Would you like me to make some coffee? I assume you like it black."
View from the deck.
Looks a little like cell-block D at Alcatraz, doesn't it. We made the mistake of leaving the windows of our bedroom open to the cool evening breeze our first night. They face the interior "courtyard". Spousal disagreements, loud cars and motorcycles, barking dogs in neighboring apartments, TV's and blaring music - it all made its way up this interior sound chimney and affronted ears more attuned to the quiet countryside. Closing the windows and turning on the ceiling fan the following nights helped a lot.
It's starkly furnished. Mark is living out of a suitcase, and we have more stuff in the frig than he does. However, there is a big screen TV with Netflix, so we've stayed up until ten or eleven every night watching movies or TV shows.
Working on the blog.
One of our favorite things about staying in Airbnb is the use of a kitchen. I made this last night. We bought a pound of ahi poke - diced raw tuna and garlic normally eaten as an appetizer or a quick meal - and fried it with broccoli, onions, and tomatoes. Then I mixed it with bow tie pasta, pesto, and topped it with parmesan cheese.
Diana's contribution to dinner. Those of you who know her well won't be surprised that she bought five deeply discounted Valentine's Day chocolate samplers on February 15th.
whoa -- does anyone else get a weird 3D movement thing on that photo of the apartment cell-block when you scroll up and down? Trippy. (Also, I'd like some of that dinner please!)
ReplyDeleteThat's really cool! I didn't notice it at first.
DeleteI'm gonna make nearly the same meal tonight with the broccoli and onion I didn't use, only instead of ahi poke we're putting shrimp in it. Wish you could be here to join us!