Japanese Mexican Food

On Thursday we wanted to try out a new restaurant for dinner. We both really like Mexican food which is hard to come by on the island! We had heard and seen of one Mexican restaurant called Obbligato so we decided we would give it a try. It was a pretty nice restaurant. The menu was in English and the waitress spoke English, so that's always a plus! The menu had a range of Mexican items but they all had a Japanese twist to them. A lot of them were served with an egg which I thought was strange, but that's the Japanese for ya! We started off by ordering chips and salsa. We thought the salsa tasted a lot like tomatoes (go figure, right?), almost like tomato soup or ketchup. It didn't really have the tang that "normal" salsa has. It wasn't bad though! Chad got the Enchilada plate which came with enchiladas, white rice, hashed brown, and an egg. It was like eating dinner and breakfast all at the same time! Chad really liked his meal. I tried the Nacho Taco Rice. It was a bowl of white rice with beef, beans, cheese, and onions on top. If you know me, you know I hate onions! So when it came out and it had onions all over it, I was pretty disappointed. Chad loves onions, so I picked them off and gave them to him. My meal was pretty good. It didn't really have a lot of flavor to it so I don't know if I would get it again. Overall, we had a good experience at Obbligatos and will be back again.


We tried to go to Obbligatos at 5PM but when we got there we realized they didn't open for dinner until 5:30PM. We decided to just drive around for a half hour. We drove by a pet store called Pet Box; I heard that they had puppies there so we decided to turn around and go back to it. They had a ton of cute puppies! We wanted to take them all home, however they are really expensive! I felt bad for them, whenever the store worker would walk by their cages, every single one of them was scratching wanting to get out. There was one dog that was super crazy. She reminded us of Chad's dog Reece who is back home. Check out this video and you'll see what I mean!

Not only did they have puppies but there were also fish, snakes, spiders, lizards, turtles, bunnies, ferrets, and hamsters. Lots of interesting creatures to look at!

After we ate dinner, we went looking for a new beach to watch the sunset at. We went farther south than the last beach we found and stumbled upon a park called Seaside park. We figured with that kind of name it must be by the Sea even though we couldn't see the sea while driving into the park. We got out and walked a path lined with palm trees. At one point, we stumbled upon a hangout area for cats. There were stray cats everywhere! They weren't really afraid of humans, they let us get pretty close to them. It was kind of strange. Something about cats just kind of creeps me out! Just past where we saw all the cats was the beautiful sea! We saw a very pretty sunset that night. I love watching the sunset over the ocean, it's so pretty!


Chad has Friday through Monday off this week because of Labor Day so expect lots of pictures on Facebook and new blog posts by early next week! :)