Drinking my morning coffee from my souvenir tiki cup…
It was like five dollars… at a drug store on Maui… but it reminds me of the trip… and I do carve tikis… and if you put real Hawaiian coffee in it… that is a good way to start the day.
We did have a plan for souvenirs. We used to buy placemats whenever we travelled. If you were going to have your own photos blown up to that size and then encased in plastic, it would cost a lot. But most places used to sell the placemats for not a lot of money. They were beautiful photos of the place you were visiting… and when you want to remember that trip, you just eat dinner on that set. You can also serve food that reminds you of that vacation.
But I guess placemats have gone out of style. Or else they haven’t caught on in Maui.
Pouring My Art Out 
I do something when I travel or when friends travel – I get postcards. Besides my own pics, I have professional pics on the postcards for places I’ve been. They don’t take up a whole lot of room & they always have a little bit of a write up on them. I don’t write on them & send them! No way! They’re mine!
But place mats are bigger and you can eat on them…
No placemats?! How unrefined of them
Bloody colonials…
Best mug ever…the cup…not your face…OK it’s nice, too
(Did you ever collect the colorful “local attractions” paper placemats when you traveled around the US as a kid?)
the fast food ones maybe
they were free….parents called them souvenirs.
right… they were hard to wash…
Easy to throw away when you got home – who wants paper place mats with a state’s cartoon illustrations of attractions?
Awesome mug! I didn’t know that about placemats. Learn something new everyday. 🙂
true… not usually on my blog, but you can learn something somewhere… HA!
LOL…
I was only kidding… I teach people stuff here all the time… I just don’t let them know it.
That mug is great. I love it.
We always bring back a coffee table book about the place and or a piece of art from a local artist. Having be raised in one of the biggest tourist traps in the world (Niagara Falls) we all learn at an early age that most of the stuff was made …well, not locally.
I got a locally made tiki also… just wait
Nice! I used to collect shot glasses, when I was younger and drinkier.
Now I get pins and stick them on the dashboard of my car.
that also works
If you want to remember it, you just cover it in food 😉 Love that mug. They used an image of you I see for it
That is the general consensus
That is one creepy mug!
I know… but I love it…
just don’t drop it! Then you will be all whiney about needing to go back to get another…
hey… I now have a plan…
yeah, except you will cut yourself and then get an unexplainable illness because there is a curse involved and it will be just horrible…
I didn’t say it was a good plan…
Well, I have grown to consider you a friend and I like you and I don’t want you to bleed or be cursed or go away for so long for a while. Sorry. I am glad you had a wonderful time and that I get to live vicariously thru you.
Everybody lives that way, just so you know… HA!
Damn that face is ugly – not you PMO, the tiki.Ha!
oh… I thought it looked just like me… that’s why I got it… sob…
I went to Maui a long time ago. Froze my a$$ off on Mount Haleakala at sunrise. Went snorkeling and fed the fish frozen peas until they swirled around me like a fish tornado. (There was no WAY I was going to let hydrophobia stop me. I had to tie a boogie board around my wrist so I could surface frequently, but I did it, yo.) Ate poi (YUCK) and the freshest pineapple in existence (YUM). But now you’ve got me thinking of it, I don’t think I ever saw a single placemat.
Not One.
They are either ahead of or behind the times.
And as an added bonus, if the coffee is not working as a laxative then staring at the Tiki mug will do the trick just the same.
and it is that nice, soothing, poo color…
hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
yup