I’ve only been there once, to Oahu, and my time was way too short. I love the idea of old-time Hawaii, or maybe I should say kitchshy Hawiiana as presented to the US in the forties thru the sixties.
I would love to go to an old-fashioned Hawaiian restaurant with tikis and grass shack decor with beautiful colored tropical drinks with umbrellas in them and the staff dressed in Hawaiian shirts and mumus and leis. The food should have lots of coconut and pineapple. It looks like La Mariana Tiki Bar and Restaurant fits that bill.
I want to hear nothing but traditional Hawaiian music wherever I go.
I want to go to a luau and a polynesian dance show at night, complete with the flaming baton twirlers.
I’d like to stay at The Royal Hawiian Hotel or the Moana Hotel
I’d like to take a ride on an outrigger canoe.
Take a tour of the pineapple fields and a macadamia nut farm and a sugar cane farm.
I’d like to eat a plate lunch or two.
I’d like to buy some vintage Hawiian shirts and mumus. I love This Shirt and This Mumu
I would love to take some hula lessons.
I’d love to take a ride on a glass bottom boat.
I want to visit Aliʻiōlani Hale the building that is currently used as the home of the Hawaii State Supreme Court. It is the former seat of government of the Kingdom of Hawaii and the Republic of Hawaii. I love the statue of King Kamehameha out in front.
I’d like to visit the Hawaii Plantation Village and the Polynesian Cultural Center.
I would like to see a volcano and frolic upon a black sand beach.
I want to drink out of a coconut.
I want to eat my way across the International Market Place in Oahu.
I’d like to see some waterfalls such as Akaka Falls and Waimoku Falls.