October 22nd, 2019
As I walked to the lobby, I spotted the gecko, originally he was in the shad and I thought it would make a great picture. By the time I had my phone out and ready to take a picture, he was running for cover. Every time I walked past that area I kept looking for him but no luck!
As I left Maui, I thought about what a nice time we had in Maui, it was a lot of hanging out and not a lot of running here and there and of course there was a lot of eating! It was nice having that feeling of “What do we want to do today instead of here is what lined up.
We headed to Waikiki where we were going to attend events that were part of the Hawaii Food and Wine Festival. We have been doing that for years and we were looking forward to it. We were staying in the newly remodeled Alohilani.
Over the years we keep searching for the ideal place and in Waikiki that can be a challenge. First, many of the hotels need to be updated. I tried staying where I had status and just about all of them more or less said upon check-in, it is a resort which means elite status means nothing or very little. I told myself, at least I was earning points but after some of my worst stays, I decided it was better to have a nice stay without earning points versus a bad stay that earned points.
We get to Waikiki and check into the room. I had a great view of Diamond Head and the rooms were nice. So far so good!
Sophon and I went found a hole in the wall place to have dinner which was delicious, checked out the hotel’s pool area and aquarium in the lobby and then called it a night.
These days, it is all about “the gram”, as I looked out of my room I saw the mural 16 stories below. I spotted another mural with a boom box and had the same thought, it is all about that selfie and that Instagram.
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