The Thirty-Fifth One

or, Everything's Coming Up Hawaii!

Everything in my life is pointing to Hawaii.

1.  My cousin and his beautiful family moved there a couple years ago.
2. My mother and grandmother went to visit them.
3. The parents of a good friend moved there.
4. The new Hawaii 5-0 came out this year.
5. There was a faculty luau.
6. The baccalaureate was luau-themed
7. Multiple facebook friends have visited Hawaii in the last few months.

Because of all this, I have decided that my mother and I should visit Hawaii ourselves. So now I'm planning one for next year. And by planning I mean I am now saving my money. In honor of this decision I give you the following list:

Things that make me think of Hawaii (other than the people I know that live there)

1. This episode from Adventures in Odyssey. I listened to this radio program almost every night growing up. I would watch the time waiting for. The whole family (sometimes) would sit around the radio listening to it. It was wonderful, and the episodes when the Barclays and the Rathbones went on vacation to Hawaii together are some of my favorites of all time.

2. The Tick is another remnant of my childhood. You can trace this show (as with almost any cartoon I watched as a kid) to my father. He was a HUGE Tick fan ("SPOOOON!"). And this is a family-favorite episode featuring guest-stars: The American Maid, Yank the Space-Monkey, and Pineapple Pokopo.

3. The new Hawaii 5-0 series. Gratuitous violence, lots of explosions, and a complete ignorance and disdain for the US legal system and criminal rights. It surprised me how much I liked this show considering the similarities with another CBS show that I despise with the depths of my soul: CSI: Miami. I figure it's probably because of the cast. Scott Caan and company are delightful and know when to take themselves not-so-seriously. David Caruso and his people, however, are more than a little ridiculous. Freaking Horatio Caine.

4. Lilo and Stitch



5. When I was a kid, my family had certain tapes that we would listen to every Christmas. One of these tapes had this song on it. Isn't it just so charming?





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