My Favorite Place... Hawaii

My favorite place is Honolulu, Hawaii.  Honolulu is my favorite because Hawaii has so many wonderful memories of my family.  We took a vacation to the tropical paradise when I was young, but I still remember seeing huge turtles resting on the beach and collecting hundreds of seashells with my brother.

Honolulu as seen from Diamond Head cater.  Source: Wikipedia


(Image Information: personal photo of Granny and I; photo from January 2007.)

While my brother and dad went out for some "man-time," my mom took my granny and me to the hotel lobby.  We made flower necklaces while Native women told us stories about the island and its traditions.  It was a really great trip that made Honolulu my favorite place.

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  1. Laura GibbsJanuary 16, 2018 at 9:55 AM

    Wow, I wonder how many times Hawaii and Muskogee have been paired in a blog post title before, Lauren: how cool! I lived in Hawaii when I was in high school, and it was an amazing place. Maybe you will want to do a Hawaii project for this class; it has an amazing tradition of myths and legends: Hawaii stories online at the Freebookapalooza ... and of course there are some wonderful Creek resources online too, like this one: Totkv Mocvse / New Fire: Creek Folktales by Earnest Gouge ... you might want to explore those when you start brainstorming topics in Week 2. :-)

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