lunch ladies

confession: today was my first time eating Thai food. yes, i know ... "go to haleiwa eats. it's so delicious!" i'll work on that. but for now, it was the Thai truck in Kahuku by Giovanni's shrimp trunk. (for you non-hawaiian blog readers, there are many a lunch wagon out here. they park alongside the road and serve you little delectables right out the side of their box trucks. and yes, they have permanent locations. they're parked in the same places everyday serving their overpriced "local" yummies.) 

so today for lunch ladies (a group of us 'house bound' mommas who give ourselves fake names like Beatrice and Gertrude and go out to eat once a month) we ate at the thai truck. DE-LISH! i loved it. i got pad thai. that's what everyone else was getting, and i was a bit wary about venturing out too far. i figure i could probably hack anything, but could gwen hack it when it came milk time?? that's always the question.

it rained. a complete downpour which lasted less than 60 seconds but was enough to turn strollers into portable swimming pools and dust bowls into mud puddles. oh just imagine the fun a toddler can have in said situation. 2 hours later, muddy addi, wet gwen and i headed back home ... well fed, energy expended, ready to rest. (hence the multiple blog posts - the little women are in fact sleeping.)

so next time you're cruisin' around north shore craving some thai, you needn't go so far as haleiwa, but just right here in your own Kahuku back yard.