The Skull and Crown Tiki bar told us about their Tiki Weekender called Tiki in Waikiki that last time we were in Hawaii. We wanted to go to that one, but we couldn’t make it work. Some of our friends did go and the pictures were amazing, so we made it a priority to go this year.
We flew Southwest to Hawaii for the first time so that we could stop in San Jose to visit the Trader Vic’s in the airport. It was surprisingly good, but expensive.
We spent a couple of days on the north shore and just had a nice time relaxing. We didn’t take very many pictures on this trip because we’ve been here several times and were really just in the moment most of the time.
We went back to Honolulu and stopped at the Bishop Museum for the first time. It was magnificent and we highly recommend that everyone visits at least once. We both fell in love with this pupu platter and made sure the other one saw it before we left:
We also visited the newly restored La Marina sailing club where we saw this cool jeep:
We had fun at Tiki in Waikiki, but the highlight of the trip happened during one of the events where we saw that Gecko (a famous Tiki artist) had made a version of the pupu platter and had one for sale. It turns out that he stopped making them in 2020 and found this one lying around his shop. He almost didn’t bring it because it was so big. We bought it, and then a suitcase to bring it home in.
We headed back to the north shore after the event and hung around for a couple of days, which included a re-visit to the Waimea Valley preserve.
We were also celebrating our 18th anniversary and we did so by going on a snorkeling trip at night and staying one night at the historic Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Waikiki.
Getting night pictures was hard, so here are some professional pictures from the tour guide of some things we did see on the tour:
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