In the center of the image there is a 6 or 7 story parking garage. The roof of the parking garage is the luau venue.
Hotel luau are usually pretty bad. But this is exceptionally awful.
Enough snarkiness about the luau at the Hilton Hawaiian Village.
I had a moderate day today. I took the bus to the Bishop Museum. The bus ride was interesting. Bus people always interest me. Heck, I am a bus person myself.
The Bus is very much used. Many are the larger articulated models. The 2 buses I rode today transported 4 people in wheelchairs or motorized scooters. This is more handicapped ridership than I would see in a month of riding back home. Not sure why the difference.
From the bus Honolulu does not look like a glitzy tourist destination but rather like the sleepy colonial port that is at its heart.
Eventually I made it to the museum. Even though I am interested in its subject matter and understand the significance of most of the artifacts, I found the museum to be powerful with an uncomfortable undercurrent of terrible loss.
I was blessed with 15minutes in the Kāhili Room all by myself.
Today, we tend to focus on the feathers, but the stick, pole, standard is the most important part. It is the named part of the Kāhili. This one is named Ka-ula-ho’ano-lani and dates from 1859. The pole has 6 brass and 6tin bands. The entire room is very dark, very chilly , very powerful.
These bowls decorated with human teeth are just creepy. Exactly whose teeth did you use to decorate your spittoon?
Time for a change of pace. The LEGO exhibit.
This is enough from me for one day. Tomorrow maybe the aquarium.