Friday, May 9, 2014

May 8, 2014

San Francisco to Honolulu


Left San Francisco at 9:30 am on Hawaiian Airlines Flight #11
Arrived in Honolulu about 11:25 am local time
Rented a car at the Honolulu Airport and drove to my hotel.

Ala Moana Hotel
419 Atkinson Drive
Honolulu, HI 96814

Canoe in lobby of hotel

My hotel room

View from my hotel balcony

In late afternoon I walked from my hotel down Kalakaua Avenue toward Downtown Honolulu

Neal  S. Blaisdell Center & Symphony Hall
The Oahu Choral Society is performing the Bach B Minor Mass next weekend. Wish I could stay around to hear it.

Hawaii Mission Houses
Headquarters of the Sandwich Islands Mission from 1820-1863



King William Charles Lunalilo
January 13, 1835 to February 3, 1874

King Kamehamehai The Great Statue
1756 - 1819
Unified the Islands under one rule

Hawaii State Capitol

Hawaii State Capitol

Iolani Palace Sign

Iolani Palace
Official Royal Residence of the Kalakaua Dynesty that ruled the Kingdon of Hawaii from 1874 to 1893. King Kalakaua resigned and his sister Queen Lili'uokalani ruled for 2 years and then was disposed on January 17, 1893, by a provincial government. The Queen would later be imprisoned in the palace for 8 months in 1895 by the Republic of Hawaii.

Returned to the hotel and had dinner at the Yuzu Japanese Restaurant the hotel lobby.




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