Honolulu, Hawaii

This is my fifth day here, and I have taken all these days very easy.
There are several reasons for it. I am carelessly used my credit cards being now far over my budget, you have let your liver to rest, and Honolulu is not anymore so much fun for me as it used to be during 70's and 80's, when I visited this city many times. Everybody admits that this place has changed a lot, you can easily see it, but maybe me too.
It is still the most friendly city in U.S., for exsample I do not remember when a bank service anywhere was so friendly and helpful than in Bank of Hawaii.
When my friend Balasz heard that I am in Honolulu, he immediately sent me a message to contact his old friend Frenchy. I called him, and he commanded me immediately to show up at The Hawaiian Yacht Club. I did ask him, how would I recognize him , and he just gave a simple answer, everybody knows me here, ask anyone. So it did happen, it's that guy with two ladies at that corner table. We immediately found eachother symphatetic, and had good stories and a lot of beers with a lot of laughs. He introduced me to many of his friends maybe to everybody there, and I really felt myself like at home. Frenchy's, real name is Rolf Luttgau from Braunschweig, Germany, but he left his home country over 40 years ago, and had a strong accent, when talking German. I asked why they call you Frenchy, his answer was, look they call this guy Dutchy, but he's a German too.
Then everybody wanted to introduce me to the Chef of H.Y.C. He was a very nice guy,
a Swedisch speaking Finn, Goran Streng, who had been working in many first class hotels allover in the world as chef.
The best things here here are absolutely the great restaurants, especially the Japanese. I did visit the Benihana of Tokyo and Kobe Japanese Steak House and both
were mouth-watering experiencies, maybe I did enjoy Kobe even more. I only drank ice water with the meals as I did not like to spoil the taste of those tender delicaties.
By the way, who knows what is Humuhumunukunukuapuaa? This word has inside it three Finnish words , and could be translated into English like Funfunsleepsleephelp!
It is a small fish existing in Hawaian waters only!
Most tourists visit here The Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbour, which is a most
dramatic but beautiful place. But very few of them knows that without Elvis Presley's concert here 1961,it probably never had been possible to build the monument. He donated totally almost $55,000. for this project.
Day before yesterday I met at Hilton Hawaiian Village , a nice young man John,27 working for Hilton. We had a chat for a while, and when he heard about my journey, he immediately said that I should write a book. He was the third person in 24 hours who expressed that. A day before a lady ,Bunnie Hollinger at H.Y.C. had said the same, and then I had a call from Finland, Heidi Lund a friend over 30 years told that to me too.
Well, tomorrow I shall leave Honolulu, if hurricane Flossie agrees with it.