Michael’s Blog

A long time ago my family, minus my little brother who wasn’t born yet went on a trip to Hawaii. It was a work trip for my Dad, he was a research associate back then. We loved it so much we stayed for 19 months!

We had an apartment overlooking Waikiki on the 12th floor of a skyscraper-apartment-building. We weren’t actually in Waikiki though. We had an amazing view of the ocean as well, which was pretty nice.

This is a picture of Honolulu and Waikiki from top of Diamond Head.

I just loved the crystal clear water over there, my parent’s and I would spend days just at the beach. Also, there wasn’t that many surfers at the beaches that we went to, though the waves were pretty good, I loved to go body surfing.

The people were really nice too, and the sunsets were beautiful.

This is a picture of Waikiki beach at sunset.

My family and I would also go on the “Circle Island Bus” which would take us all around the island and point out everything along the way. The bus went past heaps of famous places like Pearl Harbor, Pearl City and Sunset Beach, I can’t remember how much it was but I remember that it was pretty cheap. Of course with everything that’s going on right now a lot of stuff would be much more expensive than it was.

I loved to go to Baskin Robbins for ice cream, they didn’t even exist in Australia until years later!  They boasted 31 different premium flavors. Apparently they are world famous, but I had never heard of them until I actually saw them.

The most memorable thing would be Chinese New Year. The fireworks were the loudest I’ve ever heard, they were parades on the streets, and the food was great. It was beginning the year of the Rat, (It was 1996)

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