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Chinese New Year Parade: Lions, and Children and Dragons OH MY!!

Last Honolulu after climbing to the summit of Diamond Head in a poor shoe choice, (see previous post) we met up with Rance and headed to Chinatown for the annual Chinese New Year Parade. Now, I’m not a huge fan of parades, normally they’re early in the morning and it’s cold outside and the band
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Diamond Head: Not Necessarily a Girl’s Best Friend

Several years ago on a quick visit to Honolulu for a wedding I ventured out on my own and hiked to the top of Diamond Head. So you would think having done it before, given the opportunity to do it again, I would make the smart choice of appropriate footwear and plenty of sunscreen. You
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Lost in the “Lost” Premier

I’ve a great job, but one of the drawbacks is having a curfew. It’s kind of like being on house arrest, only this house has much better food, a good view from the living room and someone comes in and changes my sheets once a week. So, while I was so close to watching the
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I’ll Cut this Short

Snip. Sometimes with the moment that scissors meet the hair shaft you can tell if it’s going to be a good haircut or a bad haircut. This one is a bad haircut. I wanted to just yell stop as soon as he started cutting, but I didn’t. When the trimmers came out I knew for
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Honolulu Happenings

We woke up yesterday morning to the normal string of announcements telling passengers with Aqua, Blue, Yellow, Gold, Purple (the list goes on and on) colored luggage tags that they could leave the ship. The voice that comes over the intercom starts out friendly as they go through the morning ritual of getting passengers to
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