\nA few hours later I was feeling somewhat human again (with faint \nThe Kahala Hotel<\/a> is pretty crazy. It is a very nice place (they had \nWe wandered around the grounds and someone there gave us free \nBy 3:30pm our bus had come and picked us up for the Paradise Cove Luau<\/a>. Lena decided to go there, then we ended up getting a bunch of \nThe bus that came to pick us up was huge – a regular tour bus. There \nThe trip out to the Luau place was about 45 minutes. Most of my \nThe Paradise Cove Luau is pretty cool. I was glad to see that cousin \nI really liked Dave’s Ice Cream. Surprisingly I have only had ice \nWe then headed over to the water and watched the tree climbing thing, \nThen I had the bright idea to get some drinks. I got in line. About \nThen we had the entertainment portion of the Luau. They had lots of \nAnyway, after the revue ended (did I mention that the fire dancer was 1.1 Pick up Aiko and Satoko from the airport I was supposed to drive us to the airport to pick up Risa’s bridesmaids, Satoko and Aiko, but instead I spent the morning throwing up, feeling amazingly sick, not being able to sleep, and trying to stop the room from alternating from spinning to punching to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nKahala Hotel Lobby: nice chandelier!<\/a><\/p>\n
\n
\nOur room at the Kahala. Nice.<\/a><\/p>\n
\n
\nRisa and I on the balcony<\/a><\/p>\n
\n
\nA kind of lagoon-thing<\/a><\/p>\n
\n
\nThere are dolphins in there. Seriously. Dolphins in our hotel
\nlagoon thing.<\/a><\/p>\n
\n
\nFree Pineapple Popsicle: Score!<\/a><\/p>\n
\nzombie-undertones) and got up and showered. I had a bunch of IMs from
\npeople, and managed to even get dressed by the time Risa returned. I
\nthink we had a bit of time to recover, and maybe we went out an ate
\nsomething. I know that we eventually got back into the car, and I
\ntook up the wheel. We headed to the Hyatt, where Risa’s friends were
\nstaying, and picked them up, then went to the Kahala, checked in
\nthere, and wandered around for a bit.\n<\/p>\n
\npictures of both Shawn Bradley and Kareem Abdul Jabber from when they
\nvisited there!) and they have a kind of artificial lagoon in the
\nmiddle of the property. With dolphins<\/a>. And Sea Turtles. And other
\nthings. It is really crazy. There is also a nice beach and places to
\neat, a pool, etc. We were only there for two nights but it looks like
\nwe have to go back for a bit longer next time. I’ve been told.\n<\/p>\n
\nPineapple Popsicles. Score! Also, Risa and her friends hadn’t seen a
\nhammock before, and were pretty amazed at them. So we spent some time
\nplaying with hammocks.\n<\/p>\n
\nother people to go.\n<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n1.3 Paradise Cove Luau<\/h4>\n
\n
\nArts and Crafts<\/a><\/p>\n
\n
\nDude climbed up that tree like it was nothing<\/a><\/p>\n
\n
\nAnd hula dancing. Lots of hula dancing.<\/a><\/p>\n
\n
\nIt was required for me to eat this ice cream (required by me)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n
\nLots of friends at the Luau<\/a><\/p>\n
\n
\nFire Dancing!<\/a><\/p>\n
\n![](\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2471\/3612405350_1451aec534_m.jpg\"\nalt=\"Risa)
\nRisa and the Fire Dancer<\/a><\/p>\n
\nwere only the four of us on it. We then drove to the next pick up
\npoint, met another bus, and filled this one up. Wow. Also, I called
\nmy favorite brother Jon and found out that he was totally waiting at
\nsome other hotel. I got him headed in the right direction and he and
\nLily eventually made it on the bus.\n<\/p>\n
\nfriends made it, except for Carl and Cha-Eun, who went to the
\ncompeting (supposedly much better, but Mormon-run and alcohol-less)
\nPolynesian Cultural Center Luau<\/a>. That’s cool with me: I wanted to go
\nto that one too, but on general principles think people should have
\nthe choice of destroying brain cells with alcohol if that is what they
\nwant (and what I often do, but didn’t this evening since I had to
\ndrive.) I also am not sure what the Mormons are doing running that
\nthing; I guess they didn’t have enough of an imperial
\nnative-dominating experience back in the Missionary era? I hear that
\nthe pork is excellent though.\n<\/p>\n
\nDoug made it, despite having been to this very Luau multiple times (I
\nthink.) He had some good advice on what do to. Generally I think the
\nplace was pretty cool.\n<\/p>\n
\ncream three times in Hawaii. One of them was here, where I got a nice
\nChocolate and Macadamia nut ice cream. It was good. Then Risa went
\nand made a nice flower bracelet and a really cool headband with her
\nbridesmaids. I tried really hard to translate and keep everyone
\ninvolved, but I get the feeling that I’m not really a very gregarious
\nguy. I need to work on that more.\n<\/p>\n
\nwhere a dude totally just climbed up this tree like it was nothing.
\nThen he threw flowers at people. Pretty rude if you ask me. \ud83d\ude09
\nAfter that we watched a traditional fishing thing with nets. It was
\npretty cool.\n<\/p>\n
\nan hour later I got our drinks and brought them back to Risa and her
\nbridesmaids. The Luau had already started. It was a buffet, and it
\nwas good. The pork was amazing. It was very tender (a whole pig,
\nprobably more than one) and delicious. The other stuff was ok. The
\nfried chicken was pretty good. I can’t believe the pork though – it
\nwas great. Lena made me say into her video camera that it was the
\nbest pork I had ever had. I said that while eating chocolate cake
\nthough, so I am not sure how convincing it was. It was really good
\nthough.\n<\/p>\n
\ndancing – hula and otherwise. The fire dancer was really amazing. I
\nkept on saying “Sugoi” (Japanese for amazing.) I then noticed that I
\nwas speaking Japanese and started to feel self-conscious about it. It
\nwas just coming out naturally though. Have I turned into one of those
\npeople that thinks they are Japanese? Having Eric sit next to me can
\nmake me feel self-conscious.\n<\/p>\n
\namazing?) we headed home. Risa fell asleep on the bus. After that I
\nhad to drop off Eric, give Ron his pants and Best Man shirt, and pick
\nup my bag from the, uh, … club<\/a> … where I accidentally left bag
\nback on Friday night. Then I came home and slept the sleep of the
\nexhausted. But not without first noticing that the showers at the kahala<\/a> are amazing. Also the bed is amazing. And the TV was amazing.
\nNot that I got to watch it. Compare the TV in the Kahala to the one
\nin our Waikiki Banyan<\/a> condo. Their TV: large, LCD, wall mounting with
\nan awesome swivel mount. Our Banyan TV: maybe a 24″ electron tube (I
\ncan’t believe I forgot what these are called) non-flatscreen TV where
\nthe colors are off (the Orlando Magic are green instead of blue) with
\nno remote control.\n<\/p>\n
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