Dark as we leave
Stars in the sky
Impeccable service
Brother in law
Getting us to airport
Self-check in
Through security
Fill my water bottle
Two hours in
Breakfast egg sandwich
Pineapple Juice
Cocoanut pineapple biscuit
Two hours out
Turbulent bouncing
Minus fifty-four outside
Watched cultural shows
On this Hawaiian airlines flight
Read things I never knew
Operas are 100% singing
Operettas 75% singing
25% speaking
Musicals – fifty-fifty
Hawaiians attempting to reclaim
Their culture stories
In airplane’s magazine
We land with no bumps
Over 5000 km from Arizona
Take $5.50 bus ride
Instead of $40.00 shuttle
Left bags at our hotel
Two hours till check in
Walked two blocks
To the ocean
Shimmering in the sunshine
Surfs up
Neat to see
As we eat
Hamburger on the beach
Back to our kitchenette
Rooms for ten days
I like relaxing
Couch, chair, tv, wifi
Coffee pot; we’ve got it made
Life of luxury!
Shopping and I’m done in.
Great sleep.
Read welcome package
Beach towels/umbrella/boards
Free for our use
Bob bought real beer
Figured out safety deposit box
Went walking
Left tourist district
Past zoo; homeless
Business Dev’t Improvement district
Schools, daycare, soccer players
Ala Wai Golf Course
Walk the canals
Back to the luxury
Shopping District
Salads for lunch
Talk with son, daughter, girls
Down to the beach
Seafood Birthday meal
Cupcake and all
Fireworks and long walk home
Feel safe with all the people
On this Waikiki, Ohahu island
Unicorn café pic
To send back home
Macadamia nut mai mai fish meal
Sleeping well
Coffee is good
Outside escalators here
Thankful for family and friends
65th birthday wishes
FB, Messenger, texts, emails, apps
Slow walk to Diamond head
Ocean turquoise green
Deep blue
White breakers
Coral floats in
Cruise ships off shore
Parasailing happening
We sit down
People watch
Baby mourning doves
All over the grass
Paddle boarders galore
Diving instruction
Tai chi and yoga in the shade
Under the flowering trees
Real flower leis
People with money
Prada purses, clothes, shoes
Limousines and the money being spent
Trolley tours
Ocean breezes
Banyan trees with hundreds of roots
Straight up and down limbs
Coconut trees with hammocks in between
Sky scraper hotels
Ocean colors amaze
Walk and see the Ghandi statue
Art on the fence of the Honolulu zoo
Pencil drawings, acrylic
Watercolor, photography
A new way home
Farmer’s market lunch
Sour Cream Candied Pecan Cinnamon Muffin
Wow and fresh pineapple
Home and sleep
Walk along canal
Laying on beach
Not as easy as used to be
Read a book
On a quiet balcony
Listen to the birds
Walk through the most deluxe hotels
More than a few steps up
From where we’re at
Nice meal with people from Ottawa
Walk and talk
Four am police presence
Required to settle something
Loud on the street
Live messenger chat with the girls
Notice not one wake up during the nights
Three nights running
Saw the guys aura
At the contemporary church service
Around pastor’s head
Green – I wanted out
Walked by the Trump Hotel
Before our afternoon snooze
Mailed a postcard to the girls
I’ve seen enough shops to last a lifetime
And then we went to the Al Moana Shopping Centre
Then the Marina of a Thousand Boats
Only twelve on the ocean
Three-hour walk
Ended with a beer
Beach park of the locals
Fishing off shore
Beautiful beaches
Two officers killed; one injured
Two women missing
Four houses burned to the ground
Happened on a Sunday morning
Quiet residential area
Suspect dead who called 911
Over fifty times in previous year
Watching Australian tennis open every night
Big time rain there helping end the fires
I SLEEP IN
Relaxing morning
Catch Martin Luther King parade
Gymnasts, dancers, drummers
Majority are black men
Masonic and Hari Krishna floats
We walk for hours
Downtown Honolulu
Foster’s Botanical Gardens
One hundred fifty-year-old trees
Walked Pier 12 – 1
We see the garbage in the water
By the million dollar boats
Then the auto mall
Bob shows me Corvette he’d like
Sit and have a beer
At Waikiki Brewing Company
Bob has broke his fast
Take our first selfie
Gone nine to three with three sit downs
Enjoyable day
Four pm happy hour
Incredible music heard from our room
Cashew nut and coconut chicken
Yum
Tuesday morning
Not a cloud in the sky
Sitting under the palm trees
White dove fly bys
Sun and sand
Near fall asleep
Watch little ones like a three-year-old
Way out with dad on a surfboard
White rolling waves
Surfers up riding the high waves
Eight paddlers in a long boat
Paddle boarders stay up the longest
How they don’t collide with each other is beyond me
Our walks enjoyable
He does not match
Footsteps to mine
As I do
We discuss car colors to buy
Not brown; red or black and why
Ones to rent all over
ABC stores on every corner
Smoke now gone
From the mass shooting
New count seven houses
Burned to the ground
One deranged man dead
Two women missing
Assumed dead
Back at our kitchenette
Eat our leftovers
Make lemon ginger tea
Haven’t seen recycling
Woner where garbage goes
U.S. by barge?
Another beach afternoon
What’s still on our bucket list discussion
New Zealand? Norway?
Scotlalnd needs to happen soon
Glad we did Cambodia, Vietnam
The challenges that have taken place
In our world in our lifetime!
Wednesday Jan 22, 2020
Bus all day $11.00 for both of us
Ride in the country
Not what I imagined
High, high mountains
Thick, thick rainforest
Straight up trees
Off the top of mountains
Town lawns cut right to the ground
Evergreen upward facing leaves
Like Australia
Houses built over water’s edge
Tree leaves six-ten inch diameter
Construction stops the bus three times
Two hours at thirty-five mph
Bob says, “this is painful”
Restful for me
Air conditioning didn’t even bug me
Had a second top
Closer to the sea
Than figured we’d be
Loved the market garden
School yards, tree farms
Rice paddies, skate parks
Fishermen, Chinaman’s Hat
Breakers along the North Shore
Smells like pineapple
Gas $3.61 here; $2.45 in Arizona
Wind farm with only one moving
National Wildlife Refuge
Farm raised shrimp
Deluxe Golf Course
Turtle Bay Resort
Blue Stop Signs
Vacation homes one after another
Huge Surf at Pipeline
Mist from the road to the mountains
Beachfront Café
Clam Chowder Soup
Guacamole and Chipote
Chicken Sandwiches
Took a different bus
By mistake
Through middle of O’Ahu
Farmland, pineapples
Stick orchards???
Are Coffee plants in three stages
Fields with tree windbreaks
Huge orange flowering trees
Tall grasses high as bus
In ditches we’re driving by
Hard to see the fields
Tractor tilling the soil
Red dirt and dozens of egrets
Dole Plantation
U.S. Naval Base
Navigation and radar
A sign says
Schofield Barracks
We drive by
Landscape similar
To Costa Rica jungle
Drive in to own of Wahiawa
See the familiar
Payless Shoe store, Pizza Hut
7-11, Subway
Yellow school buses
Red stop signs; lights
Hit the freeway
Sixteen miles to Honolulu
Four lanes of traffic
Transfer to Wakiki Beach Hotels bus
Walk the beach
Shower and out for the evening
First glass of wine since last week
Beef dip and finish our night
With a walk and ice cream
Watch the news
Thirty-foot breakers were what we were seeing
On the North Shore earlier today
Neither of us slept well
Thursday; been here a week
Another cloudless day
Eighty some degrees
Comfortable
Out of Raisin Bran
Get more water
Umbrella
Lay on the Beach day
Hal- hour talk with girls
They are getting our mail
Reading a new book
Bob started, “The Enlightened Golfer”
Twenty-five sailboats as sunsets
Over the ocean
Bob is hat shopping
Walk by the canal
See the fish
Mexican meal
Saturday, January 25, 2020
Happy 72nd Birthday Bob
Half hour to write a letter to girls
Do dishes
Check bus schedules re airport
Bob has become a birder
Showing me the fuzzy baby being fed
I learned to sleep in
We now own a flower calendar
Free as we spent $100.00 at
ABC monopoly of stores
Last beach day
Wind comes up
Took our umbrella
Nearly hit a woman
First and only issue
Pad Thai Lunch
After one hour Army Museum
Girls sang Happy Birthday; counting
Are you 1; are you 2
They made it to thirty
Watching fifteen-year-old Guaf play tennis
Reading my third book
Packed and organized
Night out by the sea
Mai tai desert
Sunday 8:30 a.m.
$5.50 bus for both of us to airport
Bus is hybrid
Shuts off at stops
License plates on cars
Hawaii Aloha State
With rainbow through the numbers
Leaving 28 degrees for 19 in Az.
Minus six in Saskatoon
Raining there yesterday
Relearn to put a picture on fb
To thank people re birthday wishes
Different feeling going back to airport
Compared to unfamiliar of arriving
First airport in world that has
Free sanitary napkins available for women
Walk outside to our gate similar to some places
“Can’t smell the flowers like forty years ago,” says Bob
No papers or books laying on airport
Lounge seats like years ago
Leaving on time
Mahalu must mean Thank You
As repeated over and over by staff and pilot
Rum punch and snack mix
Handed out just before we land
Nice touch
A great holiday
And our friends are in the building
Picking us up
How nice is that!
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