Hawaiian Vacation

We are home from our Hawaii trip, back to work, back to normal. With our memories of the island still fresh, we had a good homemade pina colada listening to some Hawaiian music (thanks to Youtube). If and when our friends from Hawaii decide to come this far north, they can feel right at home! There are too many fun memories of our trip to even write in our blog... we'll at least post some pictures, starting with a view from our hotel in Waikiki for a week.
Fruity drinks with umbrellas at La Mariana Sailing Club, a classic tiki bar.
One of our favorite things was to take out a plate lunch from Rainbow Drive-In and have a picnic by the beach at sunset.
The biggest treat to our selves was the luau (traditional Hawaiian party) with Mai Tai, music, fire dance, and hula girls, of course. Touristy, but we were definitely glad we did this.

We were very fortunate to have our own local tour guides: we feel we got to do a good mix of tourist stuff and local favorites. The small island was actually full of surprises. Within an hour drive you cover the ocean to mountains, and tropical flowers to cactus. Most of all, it's still hard to believe it's a part of USA.
Hawaii  was indeed a lot more than the picture perfect beaches of blue and turquois. Yet, at the same time it was just like a mixture of "Lilo & Stitch" and "Dragon Ball Z" without the super power and aliens. Simply put, we both had lots of fun.