Sunday, June 27, 2010

Honeymooners - Part 2...Oahu

When we went to Oahu, Malachi had reserved us tickets for a Luau at the Polynesian Cultural Center on the north side of the island.


But we got there early and walked all around and watched some demonstrations and shows.


Then we decided to rest and wait for the Luau to start.  So we sat on a bench by the river and watched the canoe tours go by.  And then on one of them, we noticed a guy standing up in the canoe.  And who was it?
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Jonny!  And Alyssa and his parents!


It was so random.

So anyways, we went to the Luau and somehow got treated to 'Ambassador' seating up at the front.


And then we went to a show called "Ha".  Which was not nearly as cool as Ulalena, and a bit long, but still pretty neat and entertaining.  But out of this giant theater with seating for probably a thousand people...4 rows behind us (with no one in between)....



What are the odds?  It was really funny.  I love small-world stuff like that!


Some fire stuff during the show (my favorite part)

The cast


Eating at Dukes (the picture pretty much says that)


On our ferry boat out to the submarine (a highlight of our trip)


On the last day, we did alot before our flight.

We hiked Diamondhead.  Which is nowhere near as much hiking as the Kauai hike, but its like hiking in the desert, up a million stairs.  So it was a bit exhausting even though it was so short!


Some of the stairs, but at least this part was indoors!


Malachi, cheating death, at Diamondhead.


The view from the top (Waikiki)

After the hike, we went Kayaking.  And yes, my water nerves actually got to me a little with this adventure, and that was disappointing for me, I like to kayak :( 


But I was able to do a little mind over matter when we got out of the freaky deep clear ocean water and into the polluted murky river water.  I know that seems backwards, but it's the truth!


And last but not least, we tried ourselves some Poi.


Here we go!


Ya, it tastes like a dirty ground up bitter weed.

Well, that was our honeymoon!  It was marvelous and I miss our entire Hawaii experience and probably always will!  When can we all go on vacation again!?!

3 comments:

Angie said...

I love it! I totally went to almost all those places in 8th grade with my family. How funny to see Jonny and Alyssa there :) Great fun!

Taumi said...

Love all your crazy faces. Was it weird to see people on your honeymoon?

Lyndsey said...

I don't know if you will EVER see this Taumi, but ya it was weird to see people on our honeymoon, but not in a bad way. I love random stuff like that, so we got a kick out of it really!