Day trip to Honolulu

Two friends from Oakland were visiting family in Honolulu, so I flew over to catch up for them for the day. We met up at the Kahala Mall for lunch and a movie, followed by ice cream!

I set out from MKK early in the morning. While I was waiting to board an Aunty came into our little terminal with an armful of fragrant lei she had made from flowers growing along her back fence and handed them out to everyone.

On arrival, a coworker from the magazine I had edited remotely the previous year picked me up from HNL airport and we went for breakfast. I then used an all-day bus pass to get from the Ala Moana end of the city to the Kahala Mall, which is out by Diamond Head, and back to the airport after my day out.

As my Mokulele Airlines island-hopper flight flew back to MKK, I caught a lovely pic of the Diamond Head crater in the late afternoon light.

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