Hawaiian Bucket List

We've been on Oahu for five months now and I finally feel like I know this place well enough to kind of have an idea of what to do an what to avoid in our time here. So far, our family hasn't been all that adventurous. We did a hike, but usually we just stick to our preferred beaches. Since living in Hawaii is a once in a lifetime opportunity for most, we'd really like to make the most of our time here. That being said, here is a list of many of the things we'd like to do and explore.

1. Visit the WWII/Pearl Harbor Memorials
2. Go to a luau (preferably at Paradise Cove)
3. Brew our own beer
4. Snorkel at Hanauma Bay
5. Spend a day at the Polynesian Culture Center
6. Rent a cabin at Bellows
7. Try stand-up paddle boarding
8. Get SCUBA certified
9. Ride horses and/or ATVs on the beach
10. Rent a boat
11. Walk (or kayak) to Chinaman's Hat
12. Take the girls to Sea Life Park
13. Start a vertical garden in our yard
14. Go on a sunset dinner cruise
15. See Halona Blowhole
16. Try the famous Dole Whip from the Dole Plantation
17. Be an extra in a movie or TV show
18. Have a picnic
19. Do a tour of movie/TV film locations
20. Get some shaved ice from Matsumoto's
21. Hang out in the Makapu'u tidepools
22. Go to one of the Eat The Street food truck events in Honolulu
23. Have a nice family portrait (of the 5 of us and maybe Caesar) taken
24. Get season passes to Wet'n'Wild
25. Go on a whale watching cruise
26. Visit Byodo-In Temple
27. Photograph sea turtles on the beach
28. Go to a Disney Character breakfast at Aulani
29. Hike Koko Head
30. Find a favorite local restaurant
31. Make it up the Stairway to Heaven
32. Do some island hoping(a cruise would be ideal)
33. See a volcano
34. Lounge on the beach sipping tropical drinks with mini umbrellas
35. Go to the Pro Bowl
36. Do a shark cage dive
37. Watch a surfing competition
38. Get another tattoo, or two
39. Have a kid, then never have another kid again
40. Get back into pre-baby shape
41. Sell the baby gear that we wont be needing anymore (high chair, pack and play, Bumbo)
42. Finish a scrapbook
43. Finish Hubster's Welcome Home scrapbook from deployment 2011-13

I expect that this list will be updated frequently with additional activities we'd like to do and sites we'd like to see. I'm thinking of it not only as a Hawaiin bucket list, bust sort of as a 30 (or 43) before 30.

Past and present Hawaii people, did I miss anything major?

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