Earlier in the day, we took the shuttle into Lanai City to find a church and then check out the sister hotel on the island. Found a quaint church, predominately Kosraens. Check: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosrae The island in Micronesia is also know as the Sleeping Lady Island. Anyway, the interim Pastor is from Edmonds... Nice, retired type guy... Had the cutest Kids Message (which is titled, "For the Young at Heart") using puppets and he was indeed a ventriloquist, and a pretty good one at that!
We walked a mile up to the sister resort... definitely liked ours better... It seemed more 'stuffy' and 'heavy' if that makes any sense. Ventured back into town and had lunch at the Blue Ginger again. The place was filled. And so many folks all know each other... Like "The Cheers" song... "Where everybody knows your name".... except it's not a bar... it's the whole city!
If you want to learn a a bit of the inner workings on Lanai... check out Oracale Founder: Larry Ellison, technology billionaire, very interesting.... he owns 96% of the island..
See this lovely pool... last night we spent about 30 minutes in it and the hot tub looking at the stars... we tried our best not to ripple the water... but... alas were not successful. The only damper on the evening was thinking about the terrible storm all our Pacific Northwestern's were going through that evening...
We walked a mile up to the sister resort... definitely liked ours better... It seemed more 'stuffy' and 'heavy' if that makes any sense. Ventured back into town and had lunch at the Blue Ginger again. The place was filled. And so many folks all know each other... Like "The Cheers" song... "Where everybody knows your name".... except it's not a bar... it's the whole city!
If you want to learn a a bit of the inner workings on Lanai... check out Oracale Founder: Larry Ellison, technology billionaire, very interesting.... he owns 96% of the island..
See this lovely pool... last night we spent about 30 minutes in it and the hot tub looking at the stars... we tried our best not to ripple the water... but... alas were not successful. The only damper on the evening was thinking about the terrible storm all our Pacific Northwestern's were going through that evening...
Such peaceful and aromatic grounds here where we are staying... no hustle/bustle allowed it seemed like
One last shot... Lanai City....
Special music from some Kosrean's... was beautiful, though we don't know the language.
She sang so sweetly.... and really played a mean ukalalee!
The fields and fencing... picture worthy!
This is the oldest church on Lanai... they only speak Hawaiian during the service.... hence, we skipped those services... It is located on the Sister Resort property....A historic registry place...
And so we bid adieu! It has been wonderful... started out shaky, with Jilli's surgery, me bonking my head and ankle, but it ended so nicely! Wednesday... we take off for Halley's... she had some major orthopedic stuff going on... time for Jer and I to get involved going to Ortho doc etc... Bet they won't have these lovely waves crashing on the shore in the morning as they do here...!
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