Lazy Tuesday in Honolulu

So here we are this morning, planning to go to Hanauma Bay this afternoon, and I'm looking up the bus schedules. Turns out Tuesday is the day they close the bay to give the fish a vacation from the tourists.

So we try to change our reservations to go see Doris Duke's place, which is impossible, because Doris Duke's people apparently vacation with the fish on Tuesdays. So we just bummed around. Something we can do here, because we have no obligations, no schedule, no nothing. I love being lazy.


We went to John and Bill's favorite breakfast spot, where they still have a $3.75 breakfast. We watched the buses go by, waiting to see it that's the place to catch the bus tomorrow to Honolulu Art Academy (which is where we go for the Doris Duke tour. After breakfast, we decided to walk around and look at old spots where we've stayed, visited, or whatever, and ended up walking about halfway to the arts academy, but decided there was little point in that walk. We did happen by a charming statue. It was a Hawaiian lady with a generous lap, so I thought I should get in it, of course. She didn't look that big to me til I saw the picture.


With three performances and a party the week before we left, I left home without addressing the Christmas cards. .In fact, I just barely got them made. I brought them unfinished with me and today I sat out on our balcony and stuffed and addressed most of them. I was going to take them to the beach, maybe put a bit of sand into each one... It was a pleasant thing to do in Paradise.






Here's a locator shot of our hotel room from the ground -- I had John go upstairs and wave a towel off the balcony so we could see where it was.





We completed the daytime portion of our day by doing a little shopping for grass mats, and having our daily afternoon drink at the Moana Surfrider. Already the waitress knows us.