Last night we had a very nice Get ToGether in Honolulu.
Hawaiian Traveler, Mrs. HT, Carol Simpson and I met up at Ryan's Grill at Ward Center for "burgers and beer". ( Actually, HT had some sort of ginger drink, and I had a mojito, but you get the idea.)
We talked so much that the waiter had to come back about 5 times until we were ready to order food, and then kept talking for hours!
So nice to chat about our travels, families, strategies for shopping and airline tickets. We also compared notes on recent and future trips. I really look forward to some great trip reports in the next couple of months!
I was also struck by the interconnectivity of our lives via Fodors... Carol and I will be meeting up with Rhkkmk at the Boston GTG, Ht will be meeting with Bob in Shanghai, both Carol and HT will be at the Bangkok in November along with Bob and Pook, and I'll be seeing Pook in September.
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Mini-GtG in Honolulu
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It sounds like a good time was had by all. We always love the HNL gtgs!
We were also struck by the fact that all of us there had been together at not only a number of HNL gtg's but also gtg's around the world in cities like Tokyo, Kona, LA, Boston, and Bangkok
Did you ever think your life could be so enriched by an internet travel board?
It got me an opportunity to have delightful conversation and dinner with three beautiful women all to myself.....it doesn't get much better than that
Aloha!
I hope that sometime in the future we can come see you guys in Honolulu for a GTG. In the meantime, we look forward to seeing you Lucy, in Boston and Pook in Bangkok, shortly thereafter. And yes, ours will be one of the forthcoming trip reports...on our trip to Bhutan.
And no, not in our wildest dreams would I have thought that our lives could be so enriched by an internet travel board...
HT, I am jealous that you had those three beautiful women all to yourself. Life sure is good...
Mahalo for not talking about mr ninja exploits in bangkok.lol..although my Mimi was a bit itchy yesterday.
kuranosuke
Your mimi should have been itai, lol
Good time in Hawaii!
I don't even want to know what a mimi is, Ken, nor what it has to do with ninja exploits and itchiness in Bangkok!!
Lucy, laughing my okole off!
Just catching up with this thread! I want to add my 100% agreement with what Lucy has said, about our lives being enriched by a travel forum! Thank you for saying what I'm sure we all feel in our hearts. And thank you to fodors for giving us this internet place to share our experiences.
Last night was just delightful! Kathie, Craig, Ken, Pook, Bob, you all would have enjoyed it, I'm sure. When we settle on a time for next year (hopefully in September again) you should try to join us!!! The more the merrier!
If you are laughing off your okole, will that be a problem for your mimi?
Just being niele....
Ken - don't forget OUR gtg tomorrow!
Lucy, I want you to teach me some Hawaiian words so I can decipher what Ken is sometimes talking about. I don't know what it means, but I'm also laughing!!!
Carol I use this: http://wehewehe.org/gsdl2.5/cgi-bin/hdict?e=q-0hdict--00-0-0--010---4----den--0-000lpm--1haw-Zz-1---Zz-1-home-niele--00031-0000escapewin-00&d=D14386&l=en
Niele= nosy or overly curious
Carol, In Hawaii as you know we speak not only English and Hawaiian but just about all the Asian cultures languages in the Pacific region with a lot of Pacific Island(Samoa, Tahiti, etc)languages thrown in.
So with that in mind on this thread....mimi is Japanese slang for ears so originally Ken is saying his "ears were ringing" to coin and English phrase and I told him his ears were itai which is a Japanese word for painful. L
So, in doing further reasearch, I found out that
Mimi means:
urine in Hawaiian
Ear in Japanese
and breast in Pitjantjatjara
and so you don't have to sneak over to wikipedia, Pitjantjatjara are aboriginal people of Western Australia...
Okole means rear end or your butt in Hawaiian and niele as Hanuman has deciphered means curious in Hawaiian.
come to think of it lcuy it does sound like ken was talking about some women's breast in Pitjantjatjara.....or maybe Kalihi Uka, lol
Aloha!
I'm going to be ready for you all next year!!! (haha)
I love it... keep talking!
Apparently our lives have been mutually enhanced in a linguistic context, too, LOL!
Ken, I was wondering why you weren't at the Hawaiian GTG, but now I understand if you'll be seeing Pook tomorrow, it was logistically impossible to be in HI. Looking forward to seeing the Asiaphiles in Boston next month. I bought my plane ticket yesterday, so I am
psychouh,..psyched!BC
I think you had it right the first time, BC!
You description of us as Asiaphiles looked disturbingly like another as----les English word at first glance!
Can't wait for Boston...Always lots of crazy, interesting and fun people there