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Day 2 was all about the Flamingo 🙂

Lots of them and some other animal encounters at the Honolulu Zoo 🙂

Komodo Dragon

Black Rhinoceros

Look a Fujifilm disposable camera!

Oh sweet gum

Peach Faced Lovebirds

Peach Faced Lovebirds

Superb Starling (Lamprotornis superbus)

Hooded Vulture (Necrosyrtes monachus)

Mosaic Flamingos

Slender-tailed Meerkat

Klipspringer

Some form of antelope, isn’t that striping on the flank gorgeous?

Oh Zeeeeebra!

Zeebra!

Hello Giraffe

Lesser flamingo (Phoeniconaias minor)

Beach Umbrella … also works an umbrella when an impromptu tropical rain shower appears

Indian Elephant and Diamond Head

American flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber)

How far to other zoos?

American flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber)

American flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber)

American flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber)

Me and another great mosaic at the zoo

After getting a bit rained out of the Zoo, I headed back to my classy looking hotel for a nap before heading off to Ward Village to have a browse through the shops and area.

After Ward Village, I headed through Ala Moana where I stumbled across this most wonderful reproductionÂ dress on display in Bloomingdales. This dress is part of the Alii Gown Reproduction Project which is been run by the Friends of Iolani Palace. This dress is a reproduction ofÂ Queen Kapiolani’s lei hulu (feather lei) gown which she wore to Queen Victoria’s jubilee in 1887. I have lightened the darks a bit in the below photo to try to show the exquisite detail in the bodice. The dress is the most beautiful black velvet with yellow feather embellishments. I would love a dress like this, the detail, the fabric, the cut, the train, the drape, everything! I spent a good time walking round the dress soaking it all up. Refer to this article for more detail.

On the walk back to my hotel, I went past this the Tradewinds Hotel and was totally in love with their breezeblock entry way 😀

And well you can’t have a visit to the USA with out some blueberry pancakes from IHOP 😀

And with a very full stomach, it was back to the hotel and that was Day 2 of Hawaii 😀

The Easter long weekend normally means a trip somewhere, or kind of somewhere

last year it was a trip to the spare room as I prepped for a CA Capstone workshop the following weekend.

the year before it was ?????????

the year before that it was Penang

This year it was Hawaii with two of my friends from uni days Sam and Justin.Â We flew with Hawaiian Airlines because well 2 x 32kg bags ….vs 1 x 23kg with Jetstar. Â Ok so that last bit was more something I was excited about than the others and that may only be because well I brought home some groceries … ok really I bought home a whole bunch of pop tarts, like a lot.

Hawaiian does a cracker of a flight out of Brisbane to Honolulu, a perfect flight for an after work escape on a plane to the middle of the Pacific. Why is it a cracker? Well because the departure time is 9:45pm. Thank you very much HA444. That not too late but not too early flight which means you can leave work at 5pm, go home finish packing, grab a bite to eat and make it to the airport in time. Â Ok so that dinner might only be a jaffle but still … and anyway you will get some sort of snack on the plane once it takes off. The flight takes about 9hrs so again a pretty perfect after work flight because you know that halfway through the first movie you will be fast asleep albeit not in pyjamas and not curled up in your own bed but still you know that when you wake up, you will be a whole lot closer to those islands in the middle of the Pacific, HAWAII! Please, click here to continue reading 🙂 “Hawaii Day 1”

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Hawaii Day 2

Hawaii Day 1