50 Reasons I love This Place...

In no particular order:

1. Rainbows (no rain, no rainbows)

2. Fresh Poke (The Poke Stop, yum)

3. Waikiki Beach

4. Fireworks (4th of July, New Years, Chinese New Year)

5. Early mornings

6. no traffic lights in the country

7. 50 mph speed limit

8. Alama Sisters

9. Bishop Museum

10. music

11. Waialua Ward

12. Bon Dances

13. Everyone is family (only state where everyone has 60 uncles and 45 aunties)

14. Plate lunches (2 scoops rice (brown), mac salad and meat...still the best!)

15. Kahuku Corn (drive all the way over there and then eat it all ourselves)

16. Grumbling (no Trader Joes, no In-N-Out, other stuff we don't have)

17. Luau! good times

18. kanikapila (usually done at #17)

19. Mangos from your neighbor

20. Slippers (cause of luau feet)

21. Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (will work to keep them safe)

22. Plastic Free Haleiwa

23. Honolulu Zoo

24. Clean air pretty much all the time (vog :(

25. UH Football, from the perfect season, Colt, June and the rebuilding, Go Warriors!

26. Christmas spirit EVERYWHERE here, hotels, markets, postoffice, gas stations, beach...

27. Plumeria, nothing like that smell

28. "Hawai'i Aloha"

29. Cheaper movies/free soda refills (come on mainland!)

30. clean, warm water

31. Waialua Elementary School, best small school

32. Paalakai Bakery and Market (butter rolls and best diet coke)

33. Kaiaka Beach (secret???!!!)

34. Downtown Honolulu (Town) hidden treasures like Merchant Street and Hawaii Theater

35. Liliha Bakery, yum cocopuffs

36. Preserving the past

37. Royal Hawaiian Band, funky, older, but good

38. Lei Day

39. Nostalgia (old hapa haole songs..."Waikiki" what can I say?)

40. 1 block rain showers

41. Waikiki Shell, sitting on mats on the grass under a full moon!

42. Trees, banyans in Kapiolani Park, rainbow shower trees on King Street, yellow shower tree

43. Rivalries: Punahou or Iolani, Leonards or Paalakai Bakery, Matsumotos or Aokis???

44. Hokulea, showing that the Polynesians did travel great distances

45. Dukes, still my favorite breakfast spot

46. Samoans and Samoan food...panepopo, to die for!

47. rear view mirror mahalos

48. Waialua Library, voted Best Small Town Library

49. Taking mainland guest around the island...the real LOST locations!

50. Aloha (isn't this what it's all about anyway?)