Ailantha
  • Blog
  • About
  • Contact

A Sweet Honolulu Birthday

4/20/2023

0 Comments

 
Picture
Picture

TODAY IS THE LAST DAY to enter the Goodreads Giveaway for the chance to win a FREE copy of "Tropical Depression" by Patti Liszkay:

​https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86517578?utm_medium=api&utm_source=giveaway_widget

ENTER TODAY!  ENTRY PERIOD THRU APRIL 20, 2023 ​

Picture
“Two extended and blended multi-generational and crosscultural families become intertwined and interwoven with each other to form a tangled web of relationships. Funny and emotionally moving.” –R. Bruce Logan, co-author of the award-winning Back to Vietnam: Tours of the Heart ​

​A SWEET HONOLULU BIRTHDAY

Picture
...Continued from previous post:
   
 The following day, Wednesday, was my grand daughter's 12th birthday. 
Picture
Picture
     We started off the day with breakfast at the Koko buffet (see previous post).
Picture
...with its great food,
Picture
Picture
...and ocean view.
Picture
Picture
     After breakfast everyone came up to Tom's and my room for a birthday party, where we all snagged  a spot wherever we could,
Picture
...while the birthday girl opened her gifts.
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
     After breakfast Tom, I, our daughter and grand daughters walked into downtown Waikiki for some shopping.        
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
     Though Kalakaua Avenue, the main drag through downtown Waikiki, is lined with fashionable Fifth Avenue shops,
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
...our grand daughters, fortunately, were happy to do their shopping at Kawaii Kawaii (which means "cute cute," In Japanese),  a sort of local equivalent of Claire's,
Picture
Picture
Picture
...and the ABC store, a ubiquitous sundries chain that one finds on every street corner in Honolulu.
Picture
Picture
Picture
    After we finished our shopping we continued down Kalakaua Avenue to the Royal Hawaiian Center food court,
Picture
Picture
Picture
...where we went to the Kulu Kulu Honolulu,
Picture
...for ice cream and their famous double cream puffs.
Picture
Picture
      Then we walked back to the Hale Koa,
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
...where we later ate lunch at Happy's.
Picture
Picture
       That afternoon some of our group went out banana boating, though some of us, myself included, opted to forego that activity, I for one preferring a nice stroll around the Hale Koa botanical garden, 
Picture
Picture
Picture
...and along the beach, 
Picture
Picture
...to being flipped into the sea off a boat shaped like a banana. 
   That evening we all met up at the Olive Garden at the Ala Moana mall for my grand daughter's birthday dinner, where we had a fine time, in no small part thanks to the over-the-top friendly staff.
Picture
...who were kind enough to bring the birthday girl a piece of cake and lead us in a round of "Happy Birthday."
Picture
      Then we walked across the mall,
Picture
...and across the street, to Sweet Creams, 
Picture
...for a special birthday dessert of ice cream rolls, a frozen confection made by spreading a thin layer of a creamy mixture on what appears to be a quick-freezer slab, 
Picture
...then scraping the frozen layer into frozen curls.
Picture
     Delicious frozen curls, I might add.
Picture
     We ended the day with the pleasant mile-long walk in the balmy night air from the Ala Moana mall,
Picture
...back to Waikiki.
Picture
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Picture
    "Tropical Depression" 
    by Patti Liszkay
    ​Buy it on Amazon:

    https://www.amzn.com/1685131832

    Picture
    "Hail Mary"
    by Patti Liszkay
    Buy it on Amazon:

    https://www.amzn.com/1684334888

    Picture
    "Equal And Opposite Reactions"
     by Patti Liszkay
    Buy it on Amazon:

    http://amzn.to/2xvcgRa
    or from
    The Book Loft
    of German Village,
    Columbus, Ohio
    Picture
    Or check it out at the Columbus Metropolitan Library
    Picture

    Archives

    May 2023
    April 2023
    March 2023
    February 2023
    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013

    RSS Feed

    I am a traveler just visiting this planet and reporting various and sundry observations,
    hopefully of interest to my fellow travelers.

    Categories

    All


























































































Proudly powered by Weebly