Settling in; Sarah's bachelorette dinner;
Dinner after the rehearsal closes pre-wedding highlights at the Pavilions.
Settling in
It is not hard to do. Drive down the long driveway of the Estate. Entre and smile big as Dannel gives us each a beautiful Orchid lei.
Regain our breath at the sight of this most gorgeous, rich cherry-floored home and Hawaiian ocean setting.
Meet Lynn for the first time--Dannel’s mother.
Sarah shows us to our room with a million-dollar ocean view and en-suite bathroom.
Find a cold drink, strike a few poses on the deck, and choose a chair to relax in.
That was easy! It’s a done deal. We are settled in!
Mahalo Sarah and Dannel for including your family on this 5-day stay at the Pavilions on the edge of a sea cliff on Kauai’s North Shore.
WOW is the word! And we dream on into the tropical night.
View from Russ and my Pavilions’ bedroom--Nirvana.
Striking initial poses on the deck of The Pavilions at the edge of a sea cliff, Kilauea, Kauai: Ian; Dannel and Russ; Vanessa, Ian, and Sarah.
Next we choose a chair to settle in with a cold drink: I choose the horizontal chez lounge; Sarah a cushioned swivel rattan bucket chair; Vanessa ditto, and gives thumbs up with her toe; Sarah tries the couch out with Dannel as backdrop; Ian fits into his tropical comfort zone.
Dannel does not sit down: he stands on a rock confirming the choice of venue as ‘the place to be’. He walks back—with a wave--from the edge of the cliff, where he will soon become a married man.
The sun sets as we dream on into this tropical night.
Dinner on deck our first night, with Sarah’s friend—Dana-from-Portland—joining us.
Sarah’s bachelorette dinner
It is an American custom for the bride’s maid to organize a ‘night out’ for the bride and include all the women she has invited to the wedding.
It usually includes a dinner out and, thereafter, a follies-sort-of-show with only the young and pretty girls joining in this. I think the ‘follies’ did not happen that night, just a few drinks in Hanalei Bay.
Vanessa arranged dinner at the Lighthouse Bistro—on my suggestion--where there was supposed to be slack key guitar music. The guitarist did not show to play, and the food was so, so, hmmmmm (sorry), but the company was what was important.
Toward the end of dinner, a woman came up to me and asked if I was Marilyn. Turns out she is the 2nd wife of Bert, a very good friend from 30-plus years ago whom we met in Tonga.
Bert managed the King of Tonga’s vanilla plantations! And showed up at the same Bistro in Kauai the night we were there. Sooo amazing. He said he recognized me, because I had not changed a bit. Smile.
See all the happy faces of Sarah with her Aunts and friends, who graced her with their presence from California, Oregon, and Washington.
First, the Bride-to-Be ready for her Bachelorette dinner; with her only mother –in-the-world—Marilyn. What a beautiful moment! As beautiful as a perfect, perfumed flower.
Dinner with Sarah’s aunts, girl friends, and Vanessa and I at the Lighthouse Bistro in Kilauea, Kauai.
Close ups: My darling twin girls--Sarah and Vanessa; Vanessa and Aunt Bev; Sarah and Aunt Patty; Sarah, Dana, and Aunt Diana; Aunt Bev, Sarah, and Lynn—Dannel’s mother; yours truly giving the imperfected royal wave; my dream girl, Sarah, and I; Lisa, Sarah, and Amy—all went to nursing school together in Ashland, Oregon.
Bert—our friend from 30-plus years ago with Vanessa and Sarah. We knew him in Tonga and by chance he was at the same restaurant as we were this night. What chance!
Dinner after the rehearsal closes pre-wedding highlights at the Pavilions.
No pictures. Just the excitement of 26 people—friends and family--arriving for light fare and refreshing drinks with swims to follow in a Kauai tropical night. What an honour.
Aloha to you all!
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