Monday, July 27, 2009

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?)




2 comments:

queenieweenie said...

Again, you're living the dream!

ashley said...

mmm, panepopo!

december, december, december. i will be happy to be back!