aloha pt 1
Nov. 30th, 2024 02:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grinninfooleI'm spending the November holiday in Hawaii, visiting with my uncle's family. I have been meaning to post about it, but keep letting it slide, so I'm going to spend 10 minutes doing it now, before I head off to the first Tabletop Oahu game convention.
I got here on a Saturday, got through jet lag, and joined my uncle and his wife at their church service. It's in an old country club founded by Japanese businessmen back in the day, and it's got lots of spacious function and dining rooms, an indoor fountain and waterfall, a gorgeous view, and a golf course. The service itself was mostly simple and repetitive praise songs (e.g. "what a beautiful name it is, the name of Jesus" repeated a dozen times.)
Then I flew to Kona on the big island to stay with my cousin Megan and her husband Scott for four days. They have a couple of guest cottages they rent out on their property, which is in the more rural area about half way up the Mauna Kea from town. It was pretty casual, the big event was a day trip to the rainy side of the island by Hilo, where they showed me a house they were developing with scott's family (which will be a really nice place once it's done) and then we went to Volcano national park and I looked upon the crater at Kilauea once more. Just as it had been in 1979, it was a wide, fairly deep hole in the ground from which some steam was arising. I was better able to cope with the disappointment of not seeing any molten rock this time. It was a lovely visit mostly, though they are MAGA folks who believe the usual lies and conspiracies, so I steered clear of many political topics.
Then I flew back to Oahu, where I have been lurking in my uncle and Anita's guest room.
I got here on a Saturday, got through jet lag, and joined my uncle and his wife at their church service. It's in an old country club founded by Japanese businessmen back in the day, and it's got lots of spacious function and dining rooms, an indoor fountain and waterfall, a gorgeous view, and a golf course. The service itself was mostly simple and repetitive praise songs (e.g. "what a beautiful name it is, the name of Jesus" repeated a dozen times.)
Then I flew to Kona on the big island to stay with my cousin Megan and her husband Scott for four days. They have a couple of guest cottages they rent out on their property, which is in the more rural area about half way up the Mauna Kea from town. It was pretty casual, the big event was a day trip to the rainy side of the island by Hilo, where they showed me a house they were developing with scott's family (which will be a really nice place once it's done) and then we went to Volcano national park and I looked upon the crater at Kilauea once more. Just as it had been in 1979, it was a wide, fairly deep hole in the ground from which some steam was arising. I was better able to cope with the disappointment of not seeing any molten rock this time. It was a lovely visit mostly, though they are MAGA folks who believe the usual lies and conspiracies, so I steered clear of many political topics.
Then I flew back to Oahu, where I have been lurking in my uncle and Anita's guest room.
