this one's for my honey

He's been bugging me for a while now to post pictures of his Don Ho souvenir from Hawai'i. See, we'd been planning our trip to Hawai'i for months before we learned of Don Ho's death in April. S. really wanted to see him on our trip. It would be untrue to say that that was S.'s entire goal for the trip, but close. He couldn't find a Don Ho bobblehead, so he settled for the next best thing:

He's made of ceramic, and his head is open, so you could technically drink out of him. On the back it says "Ho-waiian." Yeah.

Our hotel was not far from this road, which was alternately

and

Our own small tribute to Don Ho. Rest in peace.