........Honolulu still beckoned us. Daddy was given the transfer and we were to pack up our worldly goods and prepare for the next adventure..........Paradise of the Pacific.......Hula Girls, Surfing, China Town, sailors, white sand beaches and fresh food. Very exciting. Honolulu, the Island of Oahu, where the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor just 7 years earlier.
Daddy stayed to pack up and settled all the move of his job and our furnishings out of the pale brown quonset hut...
Saying good byes were not easy ... our personal staff...NingNing, Marta and Joe. They were like family. We had to leave Rosebud too...my spider monkey from Samar Island. Our friends weren't happy either. I said goodbye to Penny Clague, my best friend, Mitos and Maggie dela Riva, my friends from school. For my mother, it was "hello" to no more help in the kitchen, laundry or driving. I am sure she could foresee a lot of adjusting. There would be fears of being alone in a whole new world. Daddy would be at work, me in school and she without any servants.
The night arrived for Mama and I to leave the island of LUZON . We boarded the American Freighter, the President Madison, that would take us on a 31 day journey from Manila to San Francisco before we would then head off to Hawaii.
Daddy kissed us and waved goodbye. The ship blew its horn and slowly pulled out of its berth leaving all we knew behind and beginning another adventure of the unknown, just the two of us, my Mama and me.
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