This afternoon I ran to Walmart in Lihue for my employer. Afterwards, I decided to check out Kukui Grove Center--the Lihue shopping mall. It was cute! A little big like a (very) small-scale Aurora Farms. There were no fun fountains or boardwalks or anything, but there were seating areas in the...
Hang on. I'm having a complete mental block and can't think of the word I'm looking for. What is a small outdoor space called that's only accessible through a building? Malone University has one in the Johnson center--a grassy... COURTYARD!!! Nevermind! Wow. It literally took me ten minutes to come up with that. I tried about twenty keywords on google and an online thesaurus, and it finally came to me as soon as I referenced Malone. Whew, what a relief!
Anyway. There were outdoor seating areas in the courtyard between buildings, and a removable stage for liver performances in the center of the courtyard. There weren't many stores... Macy's, Sears, Kmart, Claire's, Deja Vu, Sunglass Hut, a few shoe stores, a few drugstores, a couple eateries and smoothie/ice cream shops. I wandered around for a bit before getting dinner at a Mexican place called La Bamba. It was still a little early for dinner, so I was one of the only ones there, but it was quiet and relaxing. When I first sat down, the Spanish version of "You are Worthy of My Praise"(an old-school Christian worship song from, like, the 90s) was playing over the sound system. On the way back to my car, I popped into Cold Stone and got a Dark Chocolate Peppermint cone. It melted fast, but I ate it faster.
I snapped a couple shots (not great quality) with my iPhone while I was out. Here's the view of the mountains from the Kukui Grove parking lot:
Here's Kukui Grove from the center courtyard:
The inside of La Bamba:
And here's a shot I took for JC while driving home (can you tell my windshield is dirty?)... haven't stopped in this store yet, but I have a day of shopping planned in Kapaa for tomorrow, so maybe I'll hit it up!
Aloha! :)
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