Tuesday, May 29, 2007

dolphins and dancers, oh my!

















Tuesday, May 8
Sea Life Park opens @ 9:30 AM
Eat Lunch at Zippy's
Mochi Ice Cream
Luau @ Paradise Cove

what a full day this was. my sunburnt back was somewhat painful, but i was determined to not let it ruin our day of fun. we started with the drive to sea life park, which is almost on the complete opposite side of the island. i think the dolphins were my favorite animals there. we got there right when the first show was starting, so we got to see the dolphins in action to start of our time at sea life park.


















we also saw the penguins, jodi's favorite. apparently, it is a common misconception that penguins are only found in cold places, because, as the sea life park worker informed us, these penguins were native to tropical places and enjoyed hawaii.


















we got to watch a turtle feeding. although they were fed all kinds of vegetables, it was clear that the lettuce was their favorite. =)


















waiting for the last dolphins show to start-this one had the whalfin performing as well-a dolphin and whale mix. it was slightly bigger and darker than the other dolphins, but didn't seem too different.


















after our long morning at sea life park, we went to zippy's for lunch. chicken katsu! yum! then i got to try real mochi ice-cream which was different than jenny's creation in our apartment in oregon. i had chocolate ice-cream covered in strawberry mochi. we went back to jodi's house briefly before heading out to the luau.




















julianne and i made braided crowns, with flowers on the right side to show our single status. we all got tattoos (temporary of course.) mine was of a plumeria. jenny's didn't stay on her arm very well, and became imprinted on julianne's shirt as well as jenny's arm. we ate lots of food and had virgin pina coladas and strawberry daquiris. we learned that hawaiians say "ah-LO-ha" and "shah-ka!" enthusiastically at every possible occasion. =) they also call everyone "cousin." julianne and i happily adopted these "customs", much to the dismay of our local tour guides. =) jenny made us promise never to say those things in front of her friends. jodi just laughed.
we watched the hula dancers and the costumed people dressed like the royal hawaiian court. we played "traditional" hawaiian games, which i was very bad at, especially the spear throwing. it was a fun day of being a tourist.






























1 comment:

kristi said...

Horray for chicken katsu and mochi!