Skip to main content

A Stoll Down Waikiki Beach

Come stroll down the street by Waikiki Beach with me!


You can watch a man building an elaborate sandcastle.

If you really like it, you can put some money in his bucket to support the arts.


You can watch a mime sit as still as a statue.

If you put money in his bucket he will dance for you.

There was a guy begging for money on the street, but in Waikiki Beach, having a gimmick will get people to give you their money a lot faster.

You can stop in at The Stupid Factory and read funny tee shirts and funny pajamas.

You can stop in front of the statue of Duke Paoa Kahanamoku and try to throw a lei up onto his arms. You can call your friends and tell them to log in to http://www.honolulu.gov/multimed/waikiki.asp
and you can wave at them.

Then you can stop at the statue of Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalaniana'ole and if you don't know who he is, you can find out here.

Labels:

Comments

  1. SaraFebruary 20, 2009 at 8:39 PM

    Just as we were leaving, Mr. Sandman knocked his castle over. He'd been working on a different one and I guess the rain must've gotten to it. He grabbed a huge shovel and destroyed it!

    Thanks for meeting up with me and letting me meet your beautiful family! You are truly living in paradise!

    ReplyDelete
  2. Butterfly 8)(8 Bungalow March 2, 2009 at 10:34 AM

    Reading your blog, I am missing Hawaii. We usually visit twice a year, often the big island and Oahu, but probably not this year because we have another commitment.

    Have you seen Magnum PI? Now is the time to watch it. Once you know the island you realize he is often headed in the wrong direction. Love the show, a different time.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Ben's Feet

Ben went camping with his youth group this weekend. He said it was the best weekend he's had since we've been in Hawaii, and possibly in his entire life. The one negative part was that he stepped on some coral out in the water and cut his feet up pretty good. He swears it was all dead coral - you shouldn't touch live coral, much less walk on it because it damages the coral. No one ever mentions that it also damages your feet. They just tell you not to damage the coral. Also, coral is a living organism . If you step on live coral and a tiny piece breaks off in the cut, it will continue to grow. Did you see the movie Alien ? If some creature incubates in Ben's feet, then breaks out and eats us all one night, I'm going to be quite miffed. (Make sure you read the inscription on his tee shirt in this picture. It's quite appropriate.)
Post a Comment
Read more

Mammogram

I'm having my annual mammogram today. I always hear about how painful they are, but honestly, I've never thought they are that bad. Not the most comfortable, but not painful either. Every time I have a mammogram, I'm reminded of this story. It won the Erma Bombeck Writing Competition and I still get a kick out of it every time I read it. So I'm posting it here today for your reading pleasure: Erma Bombeck Writing Competition 1st place in Humor Category Winner Leigh Anne Jasheway of Eugene, Oregon "The First Time's Always the Worst" The first mammogram is the worst. Especially when the machine catches on fire. That's what happened to me. The technician, Gail, positioned me exactly as she wanted me (think a really complicated game of Twister - right hand on the blue, left shoulder on the yellow, right breast as far away as humanly possible from the rest of your body). Then she clamped the machine down so tight, I think my breast actually turned inside o
1 comment
Read more

A Week After Surgery

Katie went back to the surgeon yesterday to have her foot checked.  It was the first time we saw the stitches.  When we saw her after surgery, her foot was already wrapped up in three inches of gauze and it's been wrapped like that ever since. The doctor decided that the sutures were not quite ready to be removed. There are stitches in the side of her foot where they inserted one of the screws.  The surgeon told us that she has to be very, very, very careful not to put her foot on the ground.  Any pressure at all could cause the screws to shift or break and that would be very, very, very bad. They knew we were going out of town for the wedding this weekend.  In order to protect her foot as much as possible, she was put in a hard cast.  It will come back off on Monday so they can check the sutures again.  This cast has a very limited time to be signed! Katie may not get to have a lot of people sign her cast  but she currently still has the initials of the sur
Post a Comment
Read more