Well it is 2011, so Happy New Year to everyone! Hope this finds you well and Blessed in all you do.

We took a road trip to Hawaiian Volcanoes National Park, the day before New Years 2011, and this is a recount of our adventures and a look at some of the things we saw along the way.

With eclectic red glass decorating and a fullservice bar, this place is no less than a breath-taker. I started my meal with Freshly baked pita chips and hummus/feta/cucmber dip. My only quip with the hummus was that I did not taste a generous helping of Tahini. Without Tahini, hummus is just mashed garbanzo paste. Fresh nonetheless, and took up space in my stomach by being healthy.

The Second course I ordered was the crab cake salad. A Fancy Japanese mayonnaise inspired sauce went over the panko-crusted cakes, including a sweet, delightful sesame seed/oil dressing to go on the fresh island greens, with pleasant clippings of wanton-chip throughout. I would definitly eat this again and again.

I ended the dinner with a Hamakua Mushroom pot-pie, a vegetarians delight. The crust was true-to-form pastry, you can tell that cold butter was incorporated in the blending, resluting in a forgiving flakiness. The mushrooms were thick meaty and bold, and the pie-filling wasn't too heavy or oily. The pie had the right proportion of crispy, savory and creamy.

Dec. 30th we decided to take a "pre_New_Years" excurison of sorts/. this involved getting our butts of the west side and go for a trip 'round the island. We decided to rent a cozy B&B (hey, once a year kama aina getaway everyone deserves. ) We signed up at the Happu fern b b. Really nice and clean hawaiiana with all the amenities, even the hottub. With it being located 6 mi away from Volcanoes national park, my husbadn treatied me to my first trip to the hawaiian volcanoes national park.

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