Category: Oahu

Saturday and Sunday there’s a flea market at Aloha Stadium. We chose to visit Saturday. It’s a great place to buy souvenirs to bring home. As you walk around the stadium there’s a continual repeat of booths selling bags, jewelery, board shorts and bikinis, but scattered amongst the repeats are a few gems. I found…

Sunday we visited Pearl Harbor. It’s a sobering place. Of course I’ve spent my life learning about the history, but a visit is very touching and helps remind you of the cost of the freedoms we take for granted. Tears of the Arizona. About 500,000 gallons of oil remain. Parts of the Arizona remain above…

Last year when we planned this trip we opted to take a red eye back so we could spend the last day so we booked a flight that left at 10pm. We spent the last day hanging out at the beach at Ko Olina. While at the beach snorkeling and hanging out we had no…

I hear it rains a lot in Hawaii in the winter. However, we are favored by the gods (probably because of all the times we visited the Tiki Room at Disneyland), and so we only had one day of major rain. I guess Mondays are like that even in Hawaii. Every day should begin with…