A month in Hawaii 2025

 With our amazingly stressed reservation challenge at Kona airport 2 days back, we got tickets for Hanauma bay.  Even though we wanted earlier, only time slot we could book was 12:10, so we decided to have relaxing morning. Unfortunately, mom got sick last night with cough and fever. I might packed schedules too tight. Oops. So they decided not to go to Hanauma bay with us.  I had laundry to run, John took kids to walk, and Achi & Ayako went to explore the Waikiki shopping area. After my laundry duty, John took me & kids to waikiki beach. It was nice. Kids dip themselves to have fun, soon they got wet and sandy (what do you expect?), and they are done with beach for today. We had to encourage them so we can go to Hanauma beach. We walked back to hotel and stopped by at Hard Rock Cafe for my pin collection. I started it college, maybe? It’s been a while to find Hard Rock Cafe I haven't been to yet.  Achi and Ayako bought more malasada doughnuts (I hope I don’t...

  Hmm for some reason, photo uploaded upside down time wise. Sorry. You can scroll all to the bottom and go up if you want to see them from morning to night time. Kiko loves helping we got Hawaiian pineapple Kiko has her own sunglasses and loves chilling at lanai View from parents room Shopping at Foodland in Alamoana for dinner in hotel room Kamehameha Bakery for more malasadas Dad checking dental room in Battleship Missouri Last will letters of Kamikaze attack soldiers  Surrender paper.  Ok so here is a little interesting facts I didn’t know. This is the exact spot on the Battleship Missouri, where the surrender paper was signed, and it was parked at Tokyo. It has longitude and latitude on it for some reason. Why was that location important? Well, in 1852, Matthew Perry went to Japan to force to open the country , and Matthew was a brother of Oliver Perry, known from the Battle of 1812 (yay homeschooling!).  Matthew Perry parked the ship little outside of Tokyo, an...