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The Woo family reunites in this episode, to go to Honolulu for Waikiki Beach, a glass bottom boat ride, Duke's and Leonard's.
Adam strolls by the pool area and points out some animals carved into the lava rock. He spots a ray of some sort - probably a manta ray. He calls is a Devil Ray, then a Manta Ray, and then concludes that it's a stingray. I had to look up to make sure it was not a stingray, and it isn't (I don't know the different rays very well). He's not an expert on rays, it's only half carved into the rock, why not just say it's a ray of some sort and leave it? He can be vague about a million things, but this he tries to be precise on for no reason and fails.
Back up to the room for the "big-brimmed hat" (he refuses to say wide-brimmed for some reason) and to give the time and weather check for the day. Also, the repeating is in full effect already: "I love down here the koi pond that's just right below our room. Look at all this koi down there swimming around. Koi fish." Were there Koi fish down there, Adam?
With a snap of the fingers, we're at the docks in Honolulu. Adam has a hankerin' for some non-soda sugar, because he doesn't drink soda anymore, he just finds other things that have as much sugar as soda and drinks them. Today's find is
I'll try to give him the benefit of the doubt and say the second can was for someone else in the party. In case you're wondering, 40 carbs and 34 grams of sugar. Ingredients:
Adam probably thinks it's healthy because it's 100% of the recommended daily value of vitamin C. He says it's "really good", I wonder why - it couldn't be the very first ingredient, could it? Here's a picture of Type 2 diabetes in progress:
All of a sudden when they get on the boat, Adam starts including all the family members in a few shots. The captain points out a boat in the harbor that was used in Lost, and Adam turns the camera on Angry BiL and says "ooooh, take a picture" because apparently he is a big Lost fan. Adam asks him (he's off camera now) if he remembers it from Lost and he says no, Adam says "Neither do I, but then again I never watched Lost, so..." - so, so funny.
The boat stops and the captain feeds the fish to attract them for the people to see. Adam says these look like piranhas
actual piranha:
Now it's time for Adam to repeat endlessly how clear the water is. He says it 3 times to the camera, then he says it to every person in his party individually, it seemed. They've been in the harbor area this entire time, and for the end of the tour they head out into more open water and then circle around. Adam definitely has a thing about being out on the ocean away from the shore: "Now heading out even deeper, away from Waikiki, farther away from the shoreline."
They supposedly see a submarine submerging, but Adam doesn't really capture any of it on camera and what he did was very far away and that means awful zoom was involved. That would've been cool, and he wasn't ready to catch it???
This is the extent of the glass bottom on this boat, btw, seems like false advertising to me. More winning for Mr. No Research.
Back on land, it's time for Adam to do THE most important thing he could do this entire trip. Yes, he's still on his Elvis kick and it's time to visit the Honolulu International Center (now the Neal S. Blaisdell Center) where Elvis performed and taped "Aloha for Hawaii via Satellite" in 1973. It's so predictable that Adam would like bloated Vegas Elvis the best. Adam messes his pants thinking about Elvis performing the American Trilogy including Dixieland right there in the building, his favorite recording of Elvis ever. So emotional. Oddly, Adam never mentions the name - either the old one or the current - of the building during his emotional breakdown. I'm guess because he can't remember either one.
Lunch at Duke's is up next. I should mention that since the brief showing on the boat (which almost seemed like he snuck it in), Adam has not shown the family at all. Mr. No Research found it difficult to park near Waikiki Beach (who would have thought???), and is also having a hard time finding Duke's. He's down at the Duke Paoa Kahanamoku Statue. Adam's confused because he didn't see the restaurant from the street. So this guy can't even be bothered to Google the damn restaurant he's taking the family to for lunch so it goes smoothly, FFS, or he'd know it's inside a hotel.
Dude is walking around with a phone in his pocket (as is most of his family) and he's talking about how they walked around the beach side and didn't see any signs for Duke's, so they are going to walk along the street and see if they can find a sign for Duke's. OMG. Also, he didn't bother to make a reservation. Now, the wait was only 5 minutes (they got lucky), so in this case he didn't need it, but if I am going on a cruise and I know when it starts and ends, and I have the family in tow, and the famous restaurant in a touristy area we want to eat at takes reservations, I'm sure as hell making reservations. Adam even says he was thinking there would be a 45 min or 1 hour wait. From the Duke's website:
Adam immediately loves Duke's because..... YES, it's OPEN AIR. Also, he latches onto the word "thatch" and uses that repeatedly because of the tiki hut thatched roof design. We've all been waiting for this joke, and now that he's roaming the restaurant by himself while they are waiting for the table, he can let loose with it: "oh, these guys seriously got lei'd"
Duke's has a lunch buffet option which means, yeah, Adam is going to take the camera and run down the entire damn buffet line shouting out the items halfheartedly, as if he was in the Sky Club. Also, because it's his beloved "open air", there are birds inside the restaurant, like walking around the buffet area (which seems potentially unsanitary to me) but Adam is transfixed by them, and mentions them again and again - a total of 4 different clips of the birds, maybe a full minute of this vlog is birds walking around the floor of this restaurant.
Of course, he can't film his family, so he's got to find something...he predictably opts for the buffet, here's his first plate:
He does get his sister and BiL to describe their food, but he keeps the camera on the food. In case you didn't guess, the "rental car is parked in the parking structure", and they are off to the next spot, Leonard's. Here we get the voiceover treatment and Adam gets a dozen malasadas, 2 of each flavor. Adam loves the neon, of course. Everything is made hot and fresh at Leonard's so it only makes sense the Woo family decides to take them back to Aulani to eat them. Adam can't resist though, and eats one in the parking lot, and gets the insides all over his beard and because he's filming himself, he has no way to wipe his mouth and doesn't even have a napkin.
If you ever, ever want to distract Adam from anything - like you want to pickpocket him or whatever, put a bird of any kind on the ground near him. He's now filmed the chickens roaming around near Leonard's twice. Make that three times. The birds in the restaurant and the chickens at Leonard's are the main themes of this vlog, more than anything else.
Back at the room, he complains about the traffic, naturally, and shows off the tilted sunset with his poorly calibrated, potentially broken Pocket 3 gimbal. How you don't notice this is beyond me, but then again it's Adam so he may just not care.
The vlog is over.
No promo on IG in the stories, but he did make the rare actual Instagram post of him caressing Elvis's spangled thigh
Edit to add a picture of the mess he made eating at Leonard's...credit to credit
Adam strolls by the pool area and points out some animals carved into the lava rock. He spots a ray of some sort - probably a manta ray. He calls is a Devil Ray, then a Manta Ray, and then concludes that it's a stingray. I had to look up to make sure it was not a stingray, and it isn't (I don't know the different rays very well). He's not an expert on rays, it's only half carved into the rock, why not just say it's a ray of some sort and leave it? He can be vague about a million things, but this he tries to be precise on for no reason and fails.
Back up to the room for the "big-brimmed hat" (he refuses to say wide-brimmed for some reason) and to give the time and weather check for the day. Also, the repeating is in full effect already: "I love down here the koi pond that's just right below our room. Look at all this koi down there swimming around. Koi fish." Were there Koi fish down there, Adam?
With a snap of the fingers, we're at the docks in Honolulu. Adam has a hankerin' for some non-soda sugar, because he doesn't drink soda anymore, he just finds other things that have as much sugar as soda and drinks them. Today's find is
I'll try to give him the benefit of the doubt and say the second can was for someone else in the party. In case you're wondering, 40 carbs and 34 grams of sugar. Ingredients:
Adam probably thinks it's healthy because it's 100% of the recommended daily value of vitamin C. He says it's "really good", I wonder why - it couldn't be the very first ingredient, could it? Here's a picture of Type 2 diabetes in progress:
All of a sudden when they get on the boat, Adam starts including all the family members in a few shots. The captain points out a boat in the harbor that was used in Lost, and Adam turns the camera on Angry BiL and says "ooooh, take a picture" because apparently he is a big Lost fan. Adam asks him (he's off camera now) if he remembers it from Lost and he says no, Adam says "Neither do I, but then again I never watched Lost, so..." - so, so funny.
The boat stops and the captain feeds the fish to attract them for the people to see. Adam says these look like piranhas
actual piranha:
Now it's time for Adam to repeat endlessly how clear the water is. He says it 3 times to the camera, then he says it to every person in his party individually, it seemed. They've been in the harbor area this entire time, and for the end of the tour they head out into more open water and then circle around. Adam definitely has a thing about being out on the ocean away from the shore: "Now heading out even deeper, away from Waikiki, farther away from the shoreline."
They supposedly see a submarine submerging, but Adam doesn't really capture any of it on camera and what he did was very far away and that means awful zoom was involved. That would've been cool, and he wasn't ready to catch it???
This is the extent of the glass bottom on this boat, btw, seems like false advertising to me. More winning for Mr. No Research.
Back on land, it's time for Adam to do THE most important thing he could do this entire trip. Yes, he's still on his Elvis kick and it's time to visit the Honolulu International Center (now the Neal S. Blaisdell Center) where Elvis performed and taped "Aloha for Hawaii via Satellite" in 1973. It's so predictable that Adam would like bloated Vegas Elvis the best. Adam messes his pants thinking about Elvis performing the American Trilogy including Dixieland right there in the building, his favorite recording of Elvis ever. So emotional. Oddly, Adam never mentions the name - either the old one or the current - of the building during his emotional breakdown. I'm guess because he can't remember either one.
Lunch at Duke's is up next. I should mention that since the brief showing on the boat (which almost seemed like he snuck it in), Adam has not shown the family at all. Mr. No Research found it difficult to park near Waikiki Beach (who would have thought???), and is also having a hard time finding Duke's. He's down at the Duke Paoa Kahanamoku Statue. Adam's confused because he didn't see the restaurant from the street. So this guy can't even be bothered to Google the damn restaurant he's taking the family to for lunch so it goes smoothly, FFS, or he'd know it's inside a hotel.
Dude is walking around with a phone in his pocket (as is most of his family) and he's talking about how they walked around the beach side and didn't see any signs for Duke's, so they are going to walk along the street and see if they can find a sign for Duke's. OMG. Also, he didn't bother to make a reservation. Now, the wait was only 5 minutes (they got lucky), so in this case he didn't need it, but if I am going on a cruise and I know when it starts and ends, and I have the family in tow, and the famous restaurant in a touristy area we want to eat at takes reservations, I'm sure as hell making reservations. Adam even says he was thinking there would be a 45 min or 1 hour wait. From the Duke's website:
Adam immediately loves Duke's because..... YES, it's OPEN AIR. Also, he latches onto the word "thatch" and uses that repeatedly because of the tiki hut thatched roof design. We've all been waiting for this joke, and now that he's roaming the restaurant by himself while they are waiting for the table, he can let loose with it: "oh, these guys seriously got lei'd"
Duke's has a lunch buffet option which means, yeah, Adam is going to take the camera and run down the entire damn buffet line shouting out the items halfheartedly, as if he was in the Sky Club. Also, because it's his beloved "open air", there are birds inside the restaurant, like walking around the buffet area (which seems potentially unsanitary to me) but Adam is transfixed by them, and mentions them again and again - a total of 4 different clips of the birds, maybe a full minute of this vlog is birds walking around the floor of this restaurant.
Of course, he can't film his family, so he's got to find something...he predictably opts for the buffet, here's his first plate:
He does get his sister and BiL to describe their food, but he keeps the camera on the food. In case you didn't guess, the "rental car is parked in the parking structure", and they are off to the next spot, Leonard's. Here we get the voiceover treatment and Adam gets a dozen malasadas, 2 of each flavor. Adam loves the neon, of course. Everything is made hot and fresh at Leonard's so it only makes sense the Woo family decides to take them back to Aulani to eat them. Adam can't resist though, and eats one in the parking lot, and gets the insides all over his beard and because he's filming himself, he has no way to wipe his mouth and doesn't even have a napkin.
If you ever, ever want to distract Adam from anything - like you want to pickpocket him or whatever, put a bird of any kind on the ground near him. He's now filmed the chickens roaming around near Leonard's twice. Make that three times. The birds in the restaurant and the chickens at Leonard's are the main themes of this vlog, more than anything else.
Back at the room, he complains about the traffic, naturally, and shows off the tilted sunset with his poorly calibrated, potentially broken Pocket 3 gimbal. How you don't notice this is beyond me, but then again it's Adam so he may just not care.
The vlog is over.
No promo on IG in the stories, but he did make the rare actual Instagram post of him caressing Elvis's spangled thigh
Edit to add a picture of the mess he made eating at Leonard's...credit to credit
