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How Marriott Bonvoy paid for my suite at the Hilton, gave me $200 in cash, and 90,000 points after I was “walked”

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Have you ever been walked by a Marriott Bonvoy hotel? It’s not as bad as you may think. This summer, my husband and I had big plans. We were going to celebrate our anniversary by a staycation in Marriott’s Laylow in Waikiki. We booked our room far in advance and counted down the days until […]

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Visiting the Byodo-In Temple on O’ahu

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What is the Byodo-In Temple? Byodo-In Temple was built in 1968. It commemorates the 100-year-anniversary of the first Japanese immigrants to the islands of Hawaii. The O’ahu Temple is actually a smaller scale replica of the over-950-year-old Byodo-In Temple located in Uji Japan. This non-practicing Buddhist temple welcomes people of all faiths to visit, meditate, […]

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Socially Christmas’d – A Drive Through and Drive-in Experience

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Congrats everyone! We’ve made it through to December 2020. Some states are back in lockdown, although fortunately, Hawaii is doing okay comparatively. While the vaccine has just starting to be supplied to the medical community and some extremely at-risk individuals, we will be nowhere near normal by Christmas. So Kani Kanoa Creative and Farmer’s Insurance […]

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Visiting Wet ‘n’ Wild Hawaii during the Coronavirus Pandemic

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If you were to tell me five-months ago (circa July 2020), that I would eventually visit Wet ‘n’ Wild Hawaii not once but twice before the pandemic was over, I would have called you crazy. Not to knock Wet ‘n’ Wild Hawaii, but I just didn’t see how a water park, which by its very […]

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Show Aloha Land: A Holiday Light Show Wonderland

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I am constantly amazed at how organizations and businesses in Hawaii have pivoted and found such creative ways to be there for charities, small businesses, families, and each other while making everyone’s health and safety a top priority. Such is the case with Show Aloha Land, a spectacular light show sponsored by First Hawaiian Bank. […]

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18 Aulani Tips: Pandemic Edition

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Here are my tips, tricks, and advice for having the best time at Disney’s Aulani, even during a pandemic. Aulani Tip #1. Go on a Weekday I cannot stress this one enough. My family checked into Aulani on Friday morning and left on Wednesday afternoon. The experience between staying at Aulani on a weekend versus […]

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Waimanalo Country Farms’ Drive Thru Sunflower Event

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If you told me a month ago that I would spend the beginning of November counting down the days until my reservation for the Waimanalo Country Farms’ Drive Thru Sunflower Event, I would have thought you were crazy. But that was before I experienced their drive-thru pumpkin event. October was a pretty busy month for […]

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Visiting Disney’s Aulani during the Covid-19 Pandemic

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Going on vacation in 2020 means that when you return home the big question everyone wants to know isn’t “how was the weather?” or “what did you see?” Instead, the question I got from everyone was, “how did Aulani handle keeping everyone safe during the Covid-19 pandemic?” Aulani does a great job of laying everything […]

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Best Food Options on the North Shore of O’ahu

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On almost any given Labor Day weekend, you can find my family and me on the North Shore. Getting away from Honolulu to relax and recharge at the beginning of the school year has become our tradition. We love the laid back way of life and beautiful white sandy beaches, but mostly we love the […]

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Brave New (Pandemic) World: A Trip to the Honolulu Zoo Post-Shelter-in-Place

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Baby Lemurs at the Honolulu Zoo

During life pre-pandemic, I bought annual passes for my family to the Honolulu Zoo. I figured it was the perfect time in our lives to spend large amounts of time there. Elephants and lions roaming their paddocks still captivated my 5-year-old daughter. My 1-year-old son was now aware of everything around him and LOVED to […]

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On our commute from #Tokyo to #Kyoto we stopped in #shinyokohama to visit the @ramenmuseum . While the exhibits were pretty cool, and we even walked away with some @ippudo boxes, what really made my family fall in love with this place was the @aodakeuchi make your own ramen classes. And Emma, whom ate her way through Japan one noodle bowl at a time, said this was by far the best bowl of the trip. 🍜
🌎 TeamLab Planets 🪐
🐠 Art Aquarium Museum Ginza 🐠
Thanks for the memories 2022! Bring it 2023 🎉🥳🍾
Here’s a secret I never told anyone before. Before we even left Hawaii, I was preparing myself to be disappointed during our visit to DisneySea. Heralded by many Disney fanatics as the best of the Disney parks based on its thematic set-up, I just kept thinking 2 things: 1) my kids aren’t going to be that interested in the architecture of a theme park (and I doubted I would be either) and 2) it was a park geared to older kids than mine. But how wrong I was! I loved loved loved DisneySea. To steal a line from Disney themselves, it was a whole new world.
And that’s a wrap! After months of practices, 5 days of performance hair and make up (which if you have been following my stories you know how much that stresses me out 🤣), a dress rehearsal, special Thursday performance and 3 sold out shows, @ballethawaii ‘s 2022 Nutcracker season came to a close this past Sunday afternoon. I am so impressed with all the dancers, as well as the employees and volunteers of Ballet Hawaii that made it all possible. I’ve seen this particular show several times from the audience but got a much deeper appreciation for it this year after catching the tiniest glimpse of all that it entails. A hui hou Mr. Nutcracker!

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