Post your Hawaii memories here!

[AngryAmish]

Since the state was destroyed today, all we have left are our memories. Post a happy one and let us remember the good times.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear AngryAmish!

For starters: :spank:

Now. My family and I went to Hawaii in 1991 to see the eclipse of the sun. We had a wonderful week that was capped by the eclipse. Alas, all my pictures are film...

I did get a couple of eclipse shots but they haven't been scanned yet...

Oh and BTW?



Hawaii's still there.

:P

[A HERETIC I AM]

13. Peggy Peggy sweetie sweetie pie pie....a tip for you....

Take your printed photos to your nearest Fedex Kinkos.

They have a self service scanner you can use to scan all those old photos, load them onto a CD, take 'em home and put them on your PC. (costs around $5 for the CD which holds DOZENS of pics) Of course, if you have your own scanner, just ignore this incredibly helpful tip for which I labored hours considering for you and literally sweated over in a fashion not unlike a racehorse after a workout but with the affection only an online relationship such as ours can promulgate.

Just to prove this is all possible, here is a picture I would only share with complete strangers.

Here -- This is me from before they discovered fire;



The reason I say this is before they discovered fire is because I should have been burned at the stake for wearing those shorts. Obviously I wasn't, so there you go.

(Fist gig as an Over The Road Trucker - ca. 1987)

And the MUSTACHE!! Oh MY GOD!!! What was I thinking?!? Please, somebody, go back in time and give me a clue!!!

I hate the fact that no one has gone back in time to give me a clue.

My god...where did the time go?
And where did that flat gut go?

[EvolveOrConvolve]

14. I think I spy a testicle

Ew, what the hell were we thinking wearing shorts like that in the 80's?

[A HERETIC I AM]

18. It's not a testicle. It's the last five gallons of that hundred gallon fuel tank. But thanks

anyway!!!

Wait a tic...


THAT IS A TESTICLE!


It finally dropped!


As far as the shorts are concerned, I have one excuse;

That was south Florida in the Summertime.

It gets bloody hot in South Florida in the Summertime.

Ok,,,,,,not really an excuse at all, is it?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

21. My dear HERETIC!

Actually, I have used Kinkos for scanning pics before...perhaps I'll do it again for my eclipse photos...

And if I do....I'll post them, and shoot you a PM so you can see for yourself!

BTW: I love your picture, shorts, moustache and testicle!

Thank you for sharing yourself with me.....and everyone else reading the thread, sweetie!

I hear you about the time...where did it go, indeed?

I never had a flat gut...*sob*

[petronius]

2. Hawaii? What are you trying to pull? Next thing you'll tell us that

Atlantis was a real place too...

[grace0418]

3. Thankfully, that's not true, but I do have a lot of wonderful memories of our

trip there in December. It's one of the most beautiful places I've ever visited, and I had a blast. Eating shave ice on the walk up Diamond Head. Driving in a red convertible while Christmas carols play on the radio. Watching whales, dolphins, and fly fish frolic around our boat as the sun rises over Maui. Snorkeling 5 feet from shore and seeing more fish than I ever imagined. Taking a helicopter ride around the West Maui mountains. Eating mixed plates after a day of hiking, swimming and relaxing in the sand. Visiting an organic farm and having a chef make lunch with freshly picked ingredients. Never, ever getting tired of watching the sun set over Lanai.

Sigh...I'd go back in a heartbeat.

[tigereye]

4. CNN was really off-base on that one. Bizarre.

That being said, am glad all are ok and no disaster occurred there.

[Arugula Latte]

5. Rode horseback through the jungle in Kauai when I was a kid ...

Slid down a natural stone slide into a pool of green water.
Hiked Waimea Canyon.

It's all gone now. :cry:

[AngryAmish]

6. Someone earlier nominated Puerto Rico for the now-vacant 50th state spot

It would save a lot on changing flags back to 49.

[mix]

11. never mind

:hi:

[KamaAina]

7. Swimming with dolphins off Makua Beach, O'ahu

once I got within arm's length of a calf!

Oh, I do hope they were able to swim to safety! :scared:

[blueamy66]

8. going to Kailua Elementary

without shoes....the bomb!

encountering a moray eel at Hanama Bay

the waves at Mokapu (sp)

our backyard and the canal

Pearl Harbor and the USS AZ...brought tears to my eyes every time

the fireworks on the 4th

the Ala Moana Hotel

the smell of Asian food at Waikiki beach

stringing plumeria leis on my front porch

I miss Oahu.

[Kali]

16. I saw a moray at Hanauma Bay too!

a friend I grew up with started elementary school there - was ALWAYS jealous of the barefoot to school thing

the waves at Koko Head and Waimea

did a house exchange for 2 months in the mid 70's, had an apt above Ala Moana area, SE of Punchbowl - shoes by the front door

From Arizona

fireworks on the 4th!

Ala Moana shopping center :P

bbq's at the gay beach park (my family was clueless)

talking to boys on the front parking lot

Oahu was cool, Alaska was friendlier

[Capn Sunshine]

19. Me three!

I confronted a moray at Haunama Bay as well. Had a place in Kailua in the 70's. New Condo, and there was a real estate bust so we practically had the place to ourselves. There were I think 15 units occupied out of 200. Great investment, paid like 28k for it. Right across from a dairy that is probably more condos now. We used to hike through there after every rainstorm looking for mushrooms. The Lanikai. Spent days there. Weeks.

Jumping off Waimea falls.

North shore parties.

The Red Lion. Not sure it's still there, but you had a view of Chinaman's hat from the bar


Buzz's - the place built around a banyan tree on the AlaMoana canal.


Waimanolo; old school Hawaii, bra. Early in the morning old ladies comb this beach looking for morsels of seaweed, a particular type that they pickle is what one told me.

[blueamy66]

27. Okay, my turn again.

I rememberr Buzz's!

A&W root beer in the miniature mugs

the $10 my parents gave us for lunch at the Ala Moana shopping center....that we bought a pig trough at Farrell's with and ate it all and had to hide the ribbons

running, screaming from my Dad on the beach, cause he was throwing dead jellyfish at us

having to stay 2 nights at the Ala Moana, as our house was being tented for termites

I still cannot believe that my Dad took a transfer to PHOENIX ARIZONA!!!

[arcadian]

9. Taro patches in Waipio Valley

It's still Old Hawaii down there.

[Auggie]

10. I went there to photograph a snowmobile

True story

[kwassa]

12. I saved a Japanese tourist from drowning in Hanauma Bay

my one heroic act in my life.

Now everyone has drowned.

I actually knew a woman that survived the 1960 tsunami while living in Hilo.

She lives in California, or she would be dead now, too.

[BuddhaGirl]

15. we honeymooned on Maui

it was my first visit to the islands...we stayed in Wailea, Hana, and Kaanapli.

It was utterly romantic, and beautiful...I had NEVER felt so relaxed in my life. Walks on the beach, stunning sunsets, ahi poke, tropical drinks, the island vibe.

I absolutely love it there.

[KamaAina]

17. A poetry reading with the "Pidgin Shakespeare", Lois-Ann Yamanaka

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois-Ann_Yamanaka

and I hear her neighborhood of Kalihi Valley, only a mile or two from the ferocious Pacific, was completely leveled. :sarcasm:

[dysfunctional press]

20. i remember the black sand beach at kalapana...and the nude beach just up the road.

and especially the queen's bath down the other road. i lost my keys there, and had to leave the car and hitch a ride back to hilo to get my other set...and then hitch a ride back to get the car. it wasn't a problem getting a ride either way.
now it's all under a whole bunch of lava.

[Forkboy]

22. When I was 17 my girfriend went there and cheated on me.

I still have the art inspired by the event...



I never should have added the background, as you can't tell the heart is in the limbs grasp....

I'm sorry, was this supposed to be good times? :)

[KamaAina]

23. Meeting the finest female in the entire world at Hawai'i Convention Center

just last spring. :loveya:

Fortunately, she isn't local, and thus wasn't drowned under the 12-foot wave :sarcasm: , so hope springs eternal...

[sakabatou]

24. My oldest brother's wedding was in Hawaii

[KamaAina]

25. Delicious opah (butterfish) at Assaggio in Hawaii Kai, east O'ahu

sadly, as the place was direct waterfront, it was reduced to matchsticks by the all-consuming waves. :sarcasm:

[cherokeeprogressive]

26. Sadly, I only have one.

We had flight reservations, had rented a house on the beach for ten days, and were going over as a group. 8 of us were going to rent a van, and it was to be an awesome time.

Then we found a better deal on a huge house in St. Thomas and wound up spending up approximately half of what we would have in Hawaii.

That, is my Hawaii memory.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

28. My memory is of me right now wishing I could one day go to Hawaii.

Seriously, everything I've heard, seen and know about Hawaii leads me to believe the place is pure paradise. I'd even put it ahead of Florida and you know how much I love Florida.

[CBR]

29. I am going next week... I am sad that it will not be there :(. nt

[Arugula Latte]

30. Well, maybe you can float over it on a glass-bottomed boat.

[bikebloke]

31. A few hours between flights at Honolulu Airport.

I started to go walkabout outside, but realized my sweat glands were cranking up. And I had a long, long flight ahead with other people on board.

Plus, I was afraid I'd get book'em'd by Danno.