Tour de Honolulu

The other day I had seen a poster that was promoting an art festival down in Kapiolani Park that was going on this weekend, so today, after church I rode down there to check it out. There were a lot of tents selling different things, such as jewelry, clothes, painting, woodwork, and other crafts. I walked around for a while and started talking to a vendor selling photographs of marine animals. They were great pictures so started talking to him about where he took them and how he got into the business. It turns out that he was from Akon, SC and went to school at Furman. He also has taken pictures of manatees in Florida at the Three Sisters springs on the Cristal River, place that I have been going to since middle school. It was really cool to see what a small world it really was. After that I decided to see if I could find Chinatown in Downtown Honolulu. I rode my bike through down town and along the way stumbled upon the capital buildings. I saw the famous statue of King Kamehameha I, the person who first conquered and united the Hawaiian Islands. I also saw the amazing and beautiful Iolani Palace and a few other really neat buildings. After riding around there for a while and taking pictures I kept on in the direction of Chinatown, which wasn’t quite what I expected it to be. It was about 5 or 6 blocks of fruit and vegetable markets, meat markets, hair salons, and old rundown restaurants. If I was interested in getting some cool fruits or veggies it would have been a really neat place, but I wasn’t really in the market. I headed back to the beach after taking the bike tour of the place, good thing it wasn’t too crowded. IT is coming down to my last few days here and yet there is so much stuff that I would like to do, let alone all of the work I have to do on the pig project. I think I’m definitely going to have to come back again to get in everything.