The Healing Power Of Indiana Jones

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​The Healing Power Of Indiana Jones

​...Continued from yesterday:
     Friday, April 18, was my visiting family members' last day in Honolulu. They spent the day on the beach for a final day of snorkeling, swimming, and sunning.

     They reported that the snorkeling was exceptional that day.

       Tom, meanwhile, hiked to the Ala Moana for his daily New York Times fix (see previous post, https://www.ailantha.com/blog/i-maddie-or-maybe-penny), while I meandered around the Hale Koa campus and the beach snapping pictures.

      After a little while, though, I headed back to the hotel, energy flagging, throat a bit scratchy, head throbbing ever so slightly, and my only desire being to to sit in the lobby and join the other folks enjoying the breezes and the Hawaiian music that always wafts through the open-air lobby. 

       View from the lobby of the courtyard below.

       View from the lobby entrance.

      The artisan merchants who come to the Hale Koa every Friday to sell their island arts, crafts, and jewelry were there in the lobby as well,

...including one vendor who we see there every year who bears a distinct resemblance to a certain iconic movie character.

     Late in the afternoon the cold I felt like I might be coming down with officially arrived. And so that evening while the others went out for pizza and to watch fireworks on the beach, I schlepped myself down to the Post Exchange for some provisions. (The Hale Koa being located on the Fort DeRussy Army post, of course there was a PX on the grounds). 

     These I ate in my room while watching "Leprechaun," a dreadful yet watchable movie in which a very young Jennifer Aniston in her first movie role grapples with a murderous Irish Fairy.  

    (Technically, "Leprechaun" was not Jennifer Anniston's first movie. She was one of a troupe of dancers in a scene from a truly awful "E.T." rip-off called "Mac and Me."

     However, in that particular scene Jennifer Anniston's presence is lost in the crowd).

       The next day our visiting relatives left Honolulu, some in the wee hours, our daughters in the afternoon,

...so I pulled myself out of bed and rode along while Tom drove them to the airport.

        That evening  I once again rolled myself out of bed and we walked next door to the Hilton Hawaiian Village, 

...to eat again at the restaurant we'd discovered a few days earlier called Blue Water Shrimp (see post from 5/12/2025,  https://www.ailantha.com/blog/kulu-kulu-honolulu-purple-yam-ice-cream-playing-at-konos-and-other-memorable-food-related-experiences).

    After our delicious dinner we headed back to the hotel room where I flopped back into bed and turned on the television, roaming through the channels until I came to 
AMC which, as good fortune would have it, was running an Indiana Jones Easter Weekend Marathon. By luck we tuned in at the last scene of "Raiders of the Lost Ark," and so we were in time for the start of "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom."

      The next morning, quite miraculously, I woke up feeling ever so much better. I figured it must have been from taking a dose of Indiana Jones before bed. ; )
         It was Easter Sunday, and so after breakfast Tom and I walked the mile and a half from the Hale Koa to St. Augustine by the Sea Catholic Church for 10 am Easter Mass. 
          It was a beautiful morning, and  the streets were already full of people, 

...as was the beach on the other side of the street.

      Though we arrived at St. Augustine's about 15 minutes early, the church was so crowded that we were lucky to find a place to sit on  a step  at the back of the church near a statue of At. Augustine.
        The church was quite beautiful, 

...and the altar and entrance were flanked with feather standards, the staffs of the Hawaiian chiefs. ​

      The music was also beautiful, Here's a clip of the choir singing.

      After Mass we strolled for a while along Kalaka'ua Avenue.

     We stopped for lunch at Lulu's, a restaurant we'd been to on previous visits.       

      We were seated in a great spot along the bar that overlooked the scenery below.

     As on our previous visits, the food was really good, and the wait staff so nice.

      After lunch we walked back along Kalaka'ua Avenue,

...to Fort DeRussy,

...and the Hale Koa,

...where I was happy enough to spend most of the rest of the afternoon sitting around in the lobby. 

     That evening we split an order of the Easter Dinner Special at Happy's.

     Then we walked down to Waikiki beach to join the others who were there watching the sunset.

       Then we went back to our room to catch more of the Indiana Jones Easter Weekend Marathon.

     Seems no matter how many times you watch him, "Indiana Jones" just never gets old.