Bishop's Museum in Hawaii

The next day in Hawaii we ate a quick breakfast at the hotel's breakfast/Chinese buffet.  Yes, breakfast and Chinese food.  It was an interesting cultural experience shall we say.  The main thing that kept us coming back was the aMAzing fresh pineapple.  Clint couldn't get enough.  It was so sweet and light--unlike the often very acidic fresh pineapple you buy on the mainland.

The first order of the day was heading to Bishop's Museum.  We started out with a garden tour, and then looked at various artifacts in the Hawaiian Hall (including a giant whale skeleton).

 

 Next we went to the Science Adventure where we saw a lava demonstration in the base of a big model volcano.  We took this cool black light tunnel to get to the hotspot where the demonstration took place.  Then we played with the wind machine,  looked at some pictures of famous Hawaiian athletes in the Paki Hall, then lastly saw a show in the planetarium about Hawaiian navigation by the stars.

For lunch we went to little Village Noodle House in Chinatown that I read about in my guidebook.  It was ok.  We then cruised around Chinatown and visited the Oahu Marketplace where we saw a whole nasty pig filleted open on a table and some crazy dragon fruits. We stopped by the Hong Kong Supermarket in the Wo Fat Cho Sui building looking for "crack seed" mentioned in the guide book, but the proprietor spoke little English so that didn't work out.  So we walked along the canal to see the Izumo Taisha Shrine, grabbed some boba drinks, and moved on.

We watched fireworks on the beach from the Hilton, then had dinner at Waikiki Cheeseburger where we split the Kahlua pig nachos.  I think this started our love affair with pork nachos.  As a side note, we have since discovered that the BBQ pork nachos at Iggy's are the bomb.