Immaculate Conception Cemetery

Having eaten, we still had time to kill before we could check in, so we found a cemetery nearby and drove out for a look.

I love cemeteries in general and my last trip to a Hawaiian cemetery on Lanai had many interesting things to take in. This was was no different.

Flowers and garlands.

Tidy and not-tidy gravestones

And excellent offerings.

There was also this cacti. I wouldn’t wish the vandalism, but it’s interesting how it scars.

Poor Man’s First Class and Our First Hawaiian Meal

We won the airplane seat lottery and had an empty middle seat all the way to Kauai. I recently heard this described as “poor man’s first class” and a truer phrase has never been spoken. When we left Portland, it was in the 30s and I got cold and was cold for the whole flight, hence my jacket blanket.

Once we arrived in Hawaii, we got to bypass the long line because we had bracelets (a thing we almost didn’t have because I never saw any notification, nor discovered any information about bracelets in my pre-trip research) and I was starving. So we found a place and I ordered a Loco Moco, which was a hamburger patty, on top of rice and topped with a fried egg and a lot of gravy.

Given that it was my only meal of the day, it hit the spot. Matt got fried shrimp.