Celebrity Solstice - day 17 - Kailua-Kona, Hawaii - part 3

We walked around Kailua-Kona...

We were walking down toward Ali'i Drive (the older, commercial/shopping part of town) and saw this interesting building in the narrow triangle between two streets. It appeared to be a medical (and other) office building.

We could see the Celebrity Solstice out in the bay.

We stopped to see Moku'aikaua church...

... we were able to view the outside...

... but it is currently undergoing renovations, so we could not view inside (https://mokuaikaua.com/campaign-of-spiritual-renewal/).

As we were walking along Ali'i Drive, we saw this bright Brazilian cardinal amongst the lava rock.

I had seen that Kona has a "Kat Cafe" so we stopped by to see what it was...

... you could pay a fee to go in to the Catio and interact with the cats for a period of time.

The room where you could sit with the cats and interact with them. These are adoptable cats (https://www.konakatcafe.com/).

One of the kitties in the Catio

After we got back on the ship, we took a picture of this building that looked like it had a steep slide into the water!

Backing off a little - you can see how hazy it is from the volcanic gasses being produced by Kilauea's current eruption.

Tenders going back and forth to the pier.

The evening show was another show by the magician, this one allowing him to show his mind reading capabilities, "Mind of the Mentalist".

Before the magician came out, Cruise Director Angela and Captain Theo talked with us and thanked us for being passengers for this cruise.

Andrew did a number of tricks where he selected random people from the audience, and asked them to do something -- like think about a specific thing (e.g. "Think of someone, a friend of family member, with whom you would like to share a travel vacation in the future"). He would then write down on a small chalk board what he predicted that they were thinking, ask the audience member to say out-loud what they were thinking, and then turn the chalk board around and show that his prediction was correct. It was a wee bit disconcerting and made you wonder how in the world he did it.

We had to get our things packed up as we would be cruising overnight to our disembarkation port, Honolulu. When we were packing up, I took pictures of the two certificates that we each got:

Recognition for crossing the International Dateline on 18th April 2025

Recognition for crossing the equator (becoming Shellbacks) on 20th April 2025

All in good fun!