Monday Meanderings

So, I've been thinking about that week in Hawaii and remember a lot of details, so below are 10 memories of a week on Waikiki:

1. Grandma Hayes was visiting Ross and Barb at their apartment just off Waikiki. and she would walk to town with us and join in the festivities. She was probably about 70.
2. We decided we could spend our Christmas money and fly to Hawaii, also, inviting ourselves for a week.
3. We flew in on Christmas Eve when the airline was serving free Tom and Jerry's, followed by heavy sidewinds as we landed, which were followed by heavy airsickness.
4. Brother Ross and wife Barb had two twin beds so we split the boxsprings from the mattresses and had beds for 4! Someone didn't sleep, I think!
5. Ross was stationed at Pearl Harbor on either the USS Tiru or the USS Blackfin submarine and they had recently returned from Japan and the coast of Viet Nam (they were never in Nome).
6. We played a lot of Monopoly, saw the turtles, stood in the waterfall on the Pali, chased critters on the walls.
7. We went to a few night clubs; in my mind, we saw Don Ho (did that really happen?) and sang Tiny Bubbles, and another night went to a piano bar where we sang "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and I've not been able to stomach the song since.
8. We danced a couple nights at an open air bar on the beach; the bar was called Queen's Surf. It was a great nightspot! The perfect Hawaiian venue.
9. On New Year's Eve, we ate dinner at Dairy Queen (broke) and walked up and down the main drag with the rest of the population of Waikiki. Everyone hugged, kissed, drank and celebrated the new year in the street, must have been 1969??
10. We ate a box of confiscated steaks and almost nothing else the entire week.