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I'm back from Hawaii...what did I miss?

When we left this morning it was 23C in Honolulu and when we got back home, the temperature was -23C!

We stayed in Waikiki, holey smokes that's an expensive place. I paid almost $10US for a gallon of milk. At home, I can buy three gallons for that price!

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When one considers that - with the exception of bananas, pineapple, coconuts and tropical flowers - most things we consider necessary for modern living must be shipped exclusively into the islands, it is not shocking that the cost of goods is so very high in Hawaii. Not much manufacturing or production enterprises based there.

But it sure is beautiful!

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All my U.S. friends (and those in other parts of the world, as well, if you're of a mind) please go to the Questions and Answers forum and give me your input in the Superbowl Halftime Show thread... I'm writing an article for SF about future halftime shows we'd like to see - and why, and suggestions are very, very appreciated! Thank you!!! :) :)

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Annabel Lee

It was many and many a year ago,

In a kingdom by the sea,

That a maiden there lived whom you may know

By the name of Annabel Lee;

And this maiden she lived with no other thought

Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,

In this kingdom by the sea;

But we loved with a love that was more than love-

I and my Annabel Lee;

With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven

Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,

In this kingdom by the sea,

A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling

My beautiful Annabel Lee;

So that her highborn kinsman came

And bore her away from me,

To shut her up in a sepulchre

In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in heaven,

Went envying her and me-

Yes!- that was the reason (as all men know,

In this kingdom by the sea)

That the wind came out of the cloud by night,

Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love

Of those who were older than we-

Of many far wiser than we-

And neither the angels in heaven above,

Nor the demons down under the sea,

Can ever dissever my soul from the soul

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side

Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride,

In the sepulchre there by the sea,

In her tomb by the sounding sea.

~ Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849)

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