Post #572152 by WaikikianMoeKele on Sat, Jan 15, 2011 7:08 PM

I spent one wonderful night in July 1994 at the Tahitian Lanai in the Waikikian Hotel. Due to an extreme quantity of alcohol (mostly Blue Hawaiians) & a really horrific divorce (actually the marriage was horrific, too) plus the fact that almost all of our film was fogged (except that in the camera) thanks to the Honolulu Airport, I had extremely little to remember of that magical night. But we dined by the pool & sang at the piano bar with the regulars. I was told the story of how the place was supposed to close (TWICE!) but had somehow, miraculously stayed open. I truly felt that the Waikikian had waited for me. I also have to add that my father was stationed in Oahu during WWII, after the attack on Pearl Harbor. I felt a connection to the place that I can't explain intellectually. My most intense memory from dinner was of a rock or boulder in the pool, again, I think that my alcohol adjusted brain was interpreting the Hawaiian Islands painted in the bottom of the pool. But after dinner, walking the paths to the bar inside, seeing the little huts, the tiki torches, I was so enthralled... I would have been happy to stay there forever. Then we went inside to the piano bar (Papeete Bar) seriously some of the happiest hours of my life. We sang the old Hawaiian songs with the regulars & the blind piano player. I was so content.
I was married to a city manager, he is a horrible person, he abused me physically, sexually, emotionally, mentally... but I survived & I'm doing okay now. His job allowed us to go places that a little country girl from rural Pennsylvania would never have gone.
So, Waikikian is for the Waikikian Hotel... Moe means dream in Hawaiian & Kele is multifunctional, my given name is Kellie (a girl born in 1956 was at a loss for THAT name, so I asked my parents how they came up with that & was told that it was the last name of the guy who lived across the street... makes one wonder, right? but I really look a LOT like my father, so...?) plus 'kele' means navigator in Hawaiian, which is about the closest that I could get to cartographer which is what I do, I'm a digital cartographer by profession, a CAD drafter, that is. So that is me, WaikikianMoeKele. Aloha