Hawaii 2014, Day 2

We slept for 12 hours. Mrguy is breaking out in hives, which he says is a good sign that his stressful few months are exiting via his pores.

We met our friend, the farmer's daughter, for lunch. What a sweet hour. I miss her so. We're conspiring to take a vacation together, because her husband can't leave his business. Who knows? Perhaps she'll join us for the European trip, since her tastes and mrguy's have so much overlap.

We visited the Honolulu Museum of Art, which was very relaxing. The garden in the center of the museum is one of my favorite places. So restful.

We'd never been very far into the Michener galleries. I loved the description of how woodblock prints are made. Wait! They used an Okiie Hashimoto print as an example. They have an Okiee Hashimoto hand carved wood block in their collection. How badly I want to see it.

We tooled around town and took pictures of the Queen Emma building, documenting its further decay. They say that they want to make a dorm out of it, but they keep chipping away at the building, experimenting in ways that tell me that this building will be coming down soon.

 

Then off to Jelly's. I bought so many things. One record has a new song for our band's transportation set. The others have at least one cool song I want to pursue playing. And then there's the record I bought just for its cover, but it turns out to be some sleazy listening music at its finest. Ahhh.

On the way out of Jelly's, mrguy got a shout out from a lady in a car passing by. He was wearing his Cook Islands hand-printed shirt. Very happy boy.

Then off to Kaka'ako Kitchen, which ms scandiwaiian turned us onto so many years ago. Their tofu burger is so bizarre and satisfying. I crave it on the mainland. Still don't know what's in it. The pigeons were still a thing. Bought some tourist duds at Ward Center, on our way out of the mall.

We hit the Chart House for happy hour. It had been recommended to us by that nice family we met on our last trip, and on that trip it was a zoo. Because it's raining, perhaps, it was so chill. A beautiful sunset with a guy tai and a man, in silhouette, climbing up his mast. Kinda picturesque. A perfectly relaxing way to end the day.