3:00 snapshot, #156.

[urbpan]

We can see the famous "Pink Palace" from our hotel. This snapshot is a bit of an anticlimax, but we went back to the hotel between 3 hours at the zoo and 2 1/2 hours in the ocean. :)

Best moment of the day: tossup between seeing a Komodo dragon, and realizing that squeals of delight as the ocean tosses you around are universal.

On this day in 365 Urban Species: Moon jelly. These must be conspicuous down by the Fort Point Channel lately, as two friends emailed me asking about them.

Comments

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

wtf is that?

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

A hotel.

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

i've never heard of it. how famous can it be?

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Hawaiian_Hotel

How many famous hotels can you name anyway? (Don't count ones in New York or Boston).

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

ummmmm, the luxor?

ha ha ha ha haaaaaaaaaa icon!!

[drhoz.livejournal.com]

the Ritz, the Hilton, Raffles, the Waldorf-Astoria.... can't think of any other *famous* ones... does Bates Motel count?

[anais2.livejournal.com]

I love the RH- I noticed it earlier in the background of a picture of your dad walking on the beach, and had lots of great memories flashing back. It reminds me of old Hawaii- and that I won $7G in that pink perversion, in a dart tournament in the early 80's, for which I still have the T-shirt, lol.
I remember that they had furniture from the Iolani palace there, with chairs big enough for an 800 pound fanny, which was popular among royalty in earlier days.

Are there still ABC stores everywhere? Those, and Whaler's, were everywhere you turn around. Think of it, a chain built on selling chocolate covered macadamia nuts to tourists!

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Yes ABC stores on every corner practically. makes it a little hard to get oriented sometimes.

[bellelvsbeast.livejournal.com]

That's a gorgeous hotel...I've never heard of it, but I think it's pretty...

[(Anonymous)]

I heard of it from Joni Mitchell...
They paved paradise, put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique and a swinging hot spot