There are free hula lessons on Sunday morning at Waikiki Beach Walk.
A statue of Gabby "Pops" Pahinui who helped popularize slack-key guitar.
A poem in the central area stone.
Some info on the area.
Early hula shows.
You're supposed to sign up in advance online, but I feel a lot of people simply showed up.
Hula tells a story, with the different movements indicating different activities.
Our teacher and musician.
Neat metal artwork.
This guy wasn't wearing any underwear under his torn jeans.
ABC was giving away free calendars. You could pick from men, women, or flowers.
Someone lost a baby shoe.
On Night Court, they were making fun of Dan when they found out his real name was Reinhold. That's the name of the show's creator.
I got this ad about the Visa Dining Collection.
Some of the benefits, although I don't think we would use these enough to justify the annual cost of a card.
There was a bee on the window.
I'm surprised it got way up here.
An auctioneer on Night Court auctioning his fine.
Cooking chicken piccata.
Dan and Harry ended up on the outside ledge without underwear.
Which Ogii thought was very funny.
Wednesday evening we went to the Royal Grove at the Royal Hawaiian Center to watch the Kawika Trask Trio.
There were also dancers.
The Royal Hawaiian Center has a few different levels and areas you can watch the performance from.
Including from a bridge directly above the stage.
Their leaf skirts spread out as they spin.
Many people watched from the lawn in front.
Video.
A rainbow.
Long line for shave ice.
A couple of slugs.
They're repairing the pool over the next few months, so it's closed.
Colorful sunrise.
Just the edges of the clouds are lit up.
A hyperlapse of sunrise.
Clouds in the mountains.
When Dave & Busters opens a new location, they hide five flags across five days. Even though they're only moving the existing D&B a few blocks, I guess they're counting that as a grand opening. I didn't notice this until the third day.
I realized if you look at the HTML code for the website, the name of the image for the clue gives you the location. In this case, Kapolei Commons.
Although that's way on the southwest side of the island, so I'm not driving way over there. Especially because there are probably people already there, whereas I would have to drive for over 30 minutes. And it's a pretty large area, so I'm not sure where within the mall the flag would be.
Looks like somebody found it. The clues are updated at 10am, and the flag wasn't announced as found until 6pm, but I'd assume someone found it before that.
The only one close to us was the first flag, the Duke Kahanamoku statue. Sandy Beach is 30 minutes to the southeast. Only two more flags left.
I read a bit online about people finding the flags in other locations.
Watching the employees hide the flag and grabbing it before the clue even comes out at 10am seems pretty sketchy.
The kids at the nearby school are shooting rockets.
The next day's D&B clue isn't out yet.
It didn't update until after 10:15am, 15 minutes late. It has an image and the word "Center" has the first word capitalized.
Looking at the HTML again, it's the Polynesian Cultural Center.
Looking at pictures on Google Maps, that statue matches the outline on the clue.
Although that's even farther away, more than an hour, so again, I'm not going to bother driving there. It was updated as found within 2 hours, so I likely wouldn't have been first.
Trying to sneak up on Ogii by snaking my way across the floor.
We can see so many people doing so many activities from our balcony on Friday evening. To the north is baseball.
Soccer.
Exercise equipment.
Picnic.
Baseball practice.
Basketball and tennis.
Exercising.
Rowing.
Gardening.
Fishing.
Sitting on benches.
Running their dogs.
Another basketball court.
Flag football.
Track.
Baseball.
Softball.
And golf.
A video of them all.
Sunrise with large dark rainclouds.
We have so many views from our place: north and east from our balcony, south and west from our entrance, and northwest from the elevators.
Ogii cooking charcoal pancakes.
The final Dave & Busters flag clue still isn't posted at 10:10am.
It's up at 10:14am. I was thinking the flag might be at north shore since they were at different corners of the island so far, but it seems this one is actually at the D&B location, which makes sense.
According to the HTML code, that's correct.
They're only moving a few blocks from Ward Village to Ala Moana Center.
The new one opens April 14 according to Google.
It's going to take us about 15 minutes to get there. We can try.
One problem was even though I could see about where the store was on Google Maps, I didn't know what level of the mall it was on. Which was made even worse by the elevator and the escalator here being out of order, so we had to use farther ones.
It turns out it's on the very bottom floor, by the parking lot.
There it is.
Although we didn't see a flag anywhere, and by 10:55am, the website said the flag was found. It would have been fun to get one of the flags, even though the prize isn't that great: a $100 gift card and an invite to A VIP party with 5 guests.
A Kentucky license plate.
Some baby chickens in the parking lot of the dry cleaners.
It's mostly asphalt and rocks here; they need to go find some grass.
Some people painting a new mural.
Across from the Waikiki Community Center.
They have many classes.
Like Zumba. We didn't know this was even here.
We saw more chickens while walking.
Although the youngest ones were more like teenagers.
Ogii is still excited.
We went to the Hawaiian Scottish Festival and Highland Games on Saturday afternoon.
They had a variety of musicians, games, dances, food, vendors, and clans.
Flags: US, British, Scottish, I can't tell as it's blocked, Hawaiian, and Pan Celtic Nations (Brittany, Isle of Man, Scotland, Ireland, Cornwall, Wales).
They opened by blowing the conchs.
Then walking to the main stage.
The different clans behind them.
Some more.
All lined up.
The bagpipers played a few different national anthems and encouraged people to sing along.
Good thing they had the words in the program.
Her bagpipe has a goat head.
Info flags by the vendors.
Scottish words.
History.
Wildlife.
Whisky.
And songs.
Some of the vendors.
Some of them came a long ways, like Sheldon Pewter from Illinois.
Tartans.
And kilts.
Some of the clans.
They had lists of names that belonged to them.
A Peanuts comic about them.
Even more.
There were a few food trucks, but they had burgers and chicken strips.
We wanted authentic Scottish food.
This booth had that.
We watched the caber toss while eating.
Made it.
So close.
The start is difficult; they have to work their hands to the bottom, then lift it while keeping balance.
The Piper Jones Band.
There was a small parking lot in front and also parking at the zoo, but those were full, so we had parked a few blocks away. This parking lot in the back has a few open spots, though.
Many surfers at Waikiki Beach.
Motorcycles.
This Hawaiian Rent-All always has positive sayings on their sign.
Uh oh, the gate come down on this car.
Five people in the back of a Jeep.
And the same in a Tacoma.
Pretty image on the side of a Jeep.
The One Waterfront Towers are so neat at the top.
It's nice to have a unique font, but not so hard that you can't read it, especially the first letter. I would never have figured out this was Chef Mavro without looking it up.
Two orange SUVs.
A Toyota RAV4 and a Hyundai Kona.
I think this is a little too large of a road for a scooter.
Some classic cars at Magic Island.
The sun setting.
Many people at Ala Moana Beach.
Wedding photography.
Taking pictures, fishing, and cliff jumping.
Although it's a pretty short distance to the water.
Dark clouds.
Cruise ship.
Car with lights underneath and Dippin for a license plate.
A dancing biker. I think this is a different guy than we saw 8 months ago. I like at the end how the guy on the scooter tells him to go first since he's faster, and he throws a shaka in thanks.
We went to Aloha Amigo for dinner.
It has a fun atmosphere.
Carnitas, birria, and fish tacos.
Sam Lloyd, the lawyer on Scrubs, on Night Court as waitstaff at a party.
One problem with living in Hawaii is that while mail is normally on time, it can also be very delayed. When Mom came, we ordered one prescription snorkel mask and one prescription snorkel mask insert, just in case one doesn't arrive in time. The mask arrived in only a few days.
While the insert still hasn't arrived over two months later. Good thing we ordered both.