Yesterday was our 21st wedding anniversary. Wow - time sure does fly. I guess it's true when you are having fun.Twenty one years ago we arrived at the Anchorage airport amd discovered Jerry's suit was still hanging on the back of the bedroom door at home. When we arrived in Kauai we went right to shopping for a replacement wedding suite for Jer because we were getting hitched the next day. We didn't have much luck because the island is rural and it was late in the day. The cloest thing we found was a white, unstructured, Don-Johnson-looking cotton suit. Jer wasn't thrilled with it but the addition of an Aloha shirt made it all better :)
We were staying at the Coco Palms hotels - a Polynesian styled resort. The grounds were very beautiful with "picturesque lagoons and lush coconut groves" - a very nice January break for Alaskans. the Coco Palms was the oldest hotel on the island. Elvis stayed there and filmed a scene for the film, "Blue Hawaii". Sadly, Hurricane Iniki damaged it beyond repair in 1992. But, back to the good part......
We were married in a thatched roof chapel while a guitarist played traditional Hawaiian music. I wore a pair a pearl earrings laid in a gold flower petals that Jerry bought for me at the hotel as a wedding gift. We grabed two strangers off the beach to witness the ceremony - they were on their honeymoon and married one week before us. After the ceremony we went to the open air restaurant and shared a shrimp salad on croissant and fruity cocktails.
Vickie
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