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Hawaii Day Thirteen – Returning Home

January 4, 2010December 24, 2011  |  Lifestyle & Family  |  After twelve days in Honolulu, it’s time for us to return home. Our flight is at 8am in the morning, which means we’ve to get to the airport pretty early that morning, and that means getting up and starting the day ...

Hawaii Day Twelve – Chinese Lunch

January 3, 2010December 24, 2011  |  Lifestyle & Family  |  Today’s the last full day we have in Honolulu, because we leave for our flight back to Singapore early tomorrow morning. We decided to all have lunch together at a nearby Chinese restaurant called Happy Days. Easy to find, ...

Hawaii Day Eleven – Hanauma Bay

January 2, 2010December 24, 2011  |  Lifestyle & Family  |  Our previous drive eastward on the Kalanianaole Highway brought us past Hanauma Bay, but it was closed (every Tuesday). Today, we made a trip just to see this place. Unfortunately, the car park was full, and we weren’t let ...

Hawaii Day Ten – Aquarium and Shopping

January 2, 2010December 24, 2011  |  Lifestyle & Family  |  We did a few things today: Visit to Diamond Head Crater, the Waikiki Aquarium, and then shopping at the Waikele Premium Outlets. We didn’t actually plan to go up Diamond Head Crater initially, but since we were going to be ...

Hawaii Day Nine – North Shore

January 1, 2010December 24, 2011  |  Lifestyle & Family  |  We went to the northern part of Oahu today. When you have a rented car, you try to make full use of it. It was the Dole Plantation that we originally wanted to visit, but when we realized it was pretty close to the North Shore, ...

Hawaii Day Eight – Island Drive

January 1, 2010December 24, 2011  |  Lifestyle & Family  |  Day eight in Hawaii is Christmas Day. We went for a drive around the island of Oahu. It was only half the island, actually. In fact, it was even less than half the island. We planned to drive eastward, head toward Kailua beach, ...

Hawaii Day Seven – Ala Moana Beach

December 29, 2009December 24, 2011  |  Lifestyle & Family  |  It’s Christmas Eve. We spent the morning at the Ala Moana Beach. It was a big logistic exercise to get that many adults, and an almost equivalent number of kids and infants, organized, packed, and ready to go. It was a ...

Hawaii Day Six – A Set of Wheels

December 28, 2009December 24, 2011  |  Lifestyle & Family  |  We did some research the night before on what transport to get. We wanted to get an MPV, or what the US folks call a mini-van. It turns out that every rental company seems to be out of mini-vans. We decided to go for a ...

Hawaii Day Five – Kahala Mall

December 26, 2009December 24, 2011  |  Lifestyle & Family  |  We didn’t really do much on day five. We had become a little exhausted taking care of Vanessa and Ian. Especially Ian. Sometimes he just wouldn’t stop crying. By the time we could “move out”, enough of the ...

Ala Moana Beach Park

December 25, 2009May 13, 2016  |  Lifestyle & Family  |  Hello, from the Ala Moana Beach Park in Honolulu, Hawaii. It’s a really hot and sunny day today. I think we’re going to get sun burnt. — Posted from my N97 Share ...