Busing Around Honolulu, Day 1

...Continued from yesterday:

     Our first day in Honolulu, Easter Sunday, we left the Hale Koa,

     View from the front entrance of the Hale Koa.

…and walked towards the commercial district of Waikiki,

…to a little family restaurant called The Seaside that we’d discovered on our last trip,

...where the food was good, the staff friendly and the breakfast price was right.

     We both had the special.

     After breakfast we walked,

…to the bus stop,

 …from where we took the bus to downtown Honolulu.

     We walked to the Aloha Tower,

...a ten-story building on the Honolulu Harbor built in the 1926 that was for decades the tallest building in Honolulu,

...and the first sight of that city seen by ships approaching the harbor.

    Today the Aloha Tower is on the campus of Hawai’i Pacific University

     The campus:

     Which begs the question:  Can you imagine if you went to school here trying to get any studying done?

     Anyway, visitors can go up to the observation tower - it's free - on the 10th floor of the Aloha Tower,

…and take in the views of Honolulu Harbor and the city.

     After our visit to the Aloha Tower we walked to the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace

...for the noon Easter mass.

After Mass we walked to our next destination,

…Honolulu’s China Town,

 We had lunch at the Saigon Vietnamese Cuisine,

...bowls of the most delicious duck pho,

...mine with wide noodles,

...Tom's with the traditional thin noodles.

     After lunch we strolled around China Town a while longer,

…then made out way to the bus stop that would take us back to Waikiki and the Hale Koa.

     That evening we walked around the hotel grounds for a bit,

...then for dinner we grabbed a couple of wraps from the PX,

..to eat in our room.

    However I discovered at the PX some Peeps Oreos which, Of course, I could not resist buying.

   In truth they were a weence disappointing in taste, neither Peeps nor Oreo, 
 

…but I guess that was actually a good thing as it kept me from scarfing down the whole package.
     To be continued…