Jackie Stong's Visit

Andrea concentrates on making a beautiful lei. In the old days, lei's were kapu: only alii could wear them.

Greeting Jackie at baggage claim F2.

Jackie with Lenore and Andrea.

In the afternoon we went to Sans Souci Beach for a swim.

In the evening we went to Bluwater Grill for dinner.

On Thursday we went Waimea Falls Park. Here Jackie photographs a banyan tree.

Jackie and I pose with this flowering vine on the 3/4 mile hike up to the falls.

Andrea at the falls.

Jackie at the falls.

Andrea and Jackie on the bridge to the falls.

One of the two lifeguards at the falls.

On the way back we stopped at the Dole Pineapple Plantation.

On Friday the 19^th I took Jackie to see the Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor.

Inside the memorial.

Interesting architecture.

The architecture is similar back at the visitor center.

Jackie with the forward torpedo tubes on the USS Bowfin.

We had lunch at La Mariana Sailing Club.

The inside of the La Mariana Sailing Club men's room door has this photo of a bare breasted woman.

Jackie with the photo from the USS Bowfin.

Later we went to the beach.

In the evening we went to Chinatown and ate at Epic restaurant.

Later we listened to jazz at the Dragon Upstairs.

On Saturday the 20^th we went to the VEX robotic competition at McKinley High School.

With the robot and students in the Kalani pit.

Setting up the robot for the programming competition.

The robot scores in autonomous mode during qualifying rounds.

We hiked Koko Crater Botanical Garden loop trail (two miles) in the afternoon. Here is the plumeria grove.

About half way up we stopped for a picture of the crater rim by the cactus garden.

We saw many interesting boulders along the way.

Jackie photographs me with the fruit of the baobab (dead rat) tree.

Jackie photographing an interesting flower.

Looking back at the peak on the way out of the crater.

Looking back at the ironwood trees where we have set up our chairs.

That evening Jackie treated us to dinner at the Top of Waikiki restaurant.

A tourist from Germany offered to take this photo of the four of us.

Andrea photographs Lenore.

On Monday we had breakfast at Jack's Restaurant in Aina Haina shopping center while Andrea met with the
architect and designer in Kakaaka.

We went to the Waikiki Aquarium when Andrea got back from Details International.

We stopped at the Diamond Head Lookout with the Amelia Earhart memorial.

We had lunch at Zippy's in Hawaii Kai with a view across the water to Bluwater Grill.

We continued on to the Makapuu lookout.

In the evening we enjoyed music and hula dancing at the Moana Hotel banyan tree courtyard.

Jackie watches the hula dancer.

She dances very well.