Humor in Hawaii

Let me set the stage for you. Three women, type A personalities, one man, type A- personality.

My dad called us the three bears. I was usually too cold, Marianne or Candi were always too hot or one of them was just right. So, Papa bear and his three bears. If we ever disagreed on something Dad would just say, "the three bears," "too hot," "too cold," "just right." Too funny.

People keep saying, it doesn't look like you have been in Hawaii. Okay, I did not come back with a tan. My arm, my dad's head. SPF 70 does the trick. Seriously, people I have not been tan since summer/fall 2001.

That day was pretty funny watching dad in the water by himself. It was too cold and windy, we didn't want to get in. We teased him about avoiding the sun. One part of the island would be sunny and the other part would be cold. It was so strange.

I have heard of these, but never had seen one. Pretty funny. You bet that was one of my souvenniers.

I wanted to buy this sign, but it was too much money! We saw some funny signs.

We all wanted to get this sign that said, "No clothes beyond this point."

In Waikiki there are people along the strip with signs, or people dressed up (similar to San Francisco) doing stuff to get money. There were two signs I remember...

* Support Alcohol Research (at least he's honest, I guess, and he did have money in his cup)

*My parents were killed by ninjas. (that was a new one for me)

Speaking of signs...

Sign here.

(That was outside the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Hawaii Temple)

We were crowned Hawaiian princesses at church. (Or valiant princesses was the actual lesson)

I bought this hat while I was there, and my sisters always made southern belle comments.

So, Dad got a little "disoriented" a few times, so I made a rule we had to do the wave every time we did a 'u' turn, (also called a dispy doodle, more on that later).

I think Dad is trying to look like a car model. Work it.

So, this hat was a little big for my sister...

We were doing some hiking and dad wanted to see what was up ahead, and we were done. So, we just stayed there watching him hike. He eventually found out we weren't behind him.

SPF 70 works. Only when you miss spots do you get burned. Here is one such spot. The back of my other knee got more spots the next day. I also got three spots going up my hamstring too, and a nice two inch spot below my shoulder. Great tan lines!! So hot!!

We ate lunch at BYU Hawaii one day, and Marianne and I ended up changing in the backseat before going in. I still don't know why we didn't just go to the bathroom there. Anyway, it was rather complicated and I am sure we flashed someone.

Dad's wrinkles didn't tan...

He said he was going to walk around like this, so they could get sun too.

A few funny tidbits.

* Dad was telling us about his plane trip in, and the plane had to delay landing, and when he was explaining what happened, he said, "and then the plane did a dipsy doodle..." I said, "could you say that again?" "Dipsy Doodle." Needless to say that term was used often in many different contexts.

* Every now and then a certain Michael Jackson song would slip through Marianne or mines mouth.

* Dad is funny. "Good thing there weren't any sharks..." (sorry, inside joke, I can't expand on this one, but it had to be mentioned for my memorys sake.)

*Another dad one: We were checking out at a store, and there were some coconut bras on sale. I was looking at them, and said to dad, "I should get some of these." Then dad says, pretty straight faced, "I wonder if they carry the nursing variety." Ha Ha Ha. I thought that was pretty funny.

*There was this store in Honolulu called Back Seat Bettys. (Can you figure out what kind of store it is?) Anyway, so since I was basically designated to the back seat the whole time I deemed myself a "Backseat Betty." Chuckle, chuckle.