Monday, July 11, 2011

Hawaii - July 5

Some weird things about Hawaii --
  • Everyone is required to have a Hawaii license plate, so it's extremely rare to see a plate from any other state. And if you do, you know they just arrived on the island recently.
  • On Maui, all of the rental car license plates started with L. That wasn't the case on Oahu.
  • It's apparently legal to ride in the back of a pick-up truck; it's also apparently legal to ride a motorcycle without a helmet.
  • It rains "often," but never for very long (at least in our experience) and not very hard.
  • Mahalo means thank you.
  • Flip flops are called slippers, or, more accurately, slippahs.
  • POG (Passion fruit-Orange-Guava) juice... we'll need to look for it at home because Hubby loves it.
  • Tattoos... I've seen more in the past week than I've ever seen before, I think.
  • Things seem to move at a much slower pace on the islands.
  • Malasadas are yummy when warm; kinda greasy and somewhat gross when cold.
  • Poi.

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Keeper Boy and Princess P are best buddies. They seem to have a mutual admiration society going on. Gma G said she doesn't know what she would've done when we were in Maui if Keeper Boy hadn't been here. Anyway, Jenrie and I both had the same idea and we've been talking about sending him out here for a period of time next summer to help Jenrie out since she'll have Spidey and two kids under the age of 3. We'll have to see how it would work out with band camp if he decides to stick with band in high school. OMG... at this time NEXT year, I'll have a high school freshman!! But what a cool experience it would be for Keeper Boy! I hope we can work it out. And more importantly, I hope Princess P still likes him next summer! Jenrie said having another set of hands would allow them to do more things, so he might even get to travel to another island or two.

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