Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Honolulu February 20
Our flight out of SF on Sunday was delayed by 90 minutes, but once airborne we had a fairly smooth flight into Honolulu. We're staying on the top (37th) floor of a condo on Kuhio, one block east of Liliuokalani. We found a Safeway, filled our frig, and made our first meal Sunday evening. (In searching the Yellow Pages for a supermarket, we found a listing for C & S Wholesalers here in Honolulu. Small world...)
Today (Monday) we spent a couple of hours at the Foster Botanical Garden, a small but lovely place with lots of native and naturalized plants, including massive baobab and kapok trees. We also saw mynahs, red-vented bulbuls, South American cardinals, zebra doves, fairy terns, white-rumped shamas, Pacific Golden Plovers, and other birds. Afterwards we drove up to the military cemetery in the crater called the Punchbowl, and then over the torturous Tantalus Drive and Roundtop Drive. We enjoyed fabulous views of Honolulu and the Pacific from the state park up there. Then we visited the Bishop Museum, had dinner, walked Kalakua Drive, and spoke with our girls. We met the Shaheens (from Massachusetts) briefly at the museum and have made plans for dinner Tuesday night. Meaghan was Erica's roommate at Ithaca College; John and Maureen live about an hour south of us in central Massachusetts. Today was warm and overcast, with showers up in the rainforest on Roundtop.
Today (Monday) we spent a couple of hours at the Foster Botanical Garden, a small but lovely place with lots of native and naturalized plants, including massive baobab and kapok trees. We also saw mynahs, red-vented bulbuls, South American cardinals, zebra doves, fairy terns, white-rumped shamas, Pacific Golden Plovers, and other birds. Afterwards we drove up to the military cemetery in the crater called the Punchbowl, and then over the torturous Tantalus Drive and Roundtop Drive. We enjoyed fabulous views of Honolulu and the Pacific from the state park up there. Then we visited the Bishop Museum, had dinner, walked Kalakua Drive, and spoke with our girls. We met the Shaheens (from Massachusetts) briefly at the museum and have made plans for dinner Tuesday night. Meaghan was Erica's roommate at Ithaca College; John and Maureen live about an hour south of us in central Massachusetts. Today was warm and overcast, with showers up in the rainforest on Roundtop.
# posted by Ken @ 12:45 AM 
