My first Thanksgiving in Hawaii was at my friends house. He was a cop and a local Samoan. My god it started at 9am. The women all cookled and the guys prepped everything. Had every form of meat you can think of. Several kids of fish and shell fish, poultry, beef, pork, ham, sausage, and everything else. Must have had 30+ people there and ate till midnight. It was unreal. My first Christmas dinner was at my old friend Wally Amos's house in Lanikai. The coolest part was having fresh hot Famous Amos cookies cooked by his wife in their kitchen at their house. That was ultra cool