Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 10:54 PM
Subject: Aloha! Trumbles in Hawaii II
On Tuesday we visited Moanalua Gardens, a very pretty park with many large, very cool trees. This park also has a monkeypod tree that is used in a Hitachi commercial in Japan and Japanese tourists come to get their picture taken with the tree. http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Jun/27/bz/bz01p.html
On Monday we visited Chinatown (who knew there was such a think in Hawaii?!?). While there we visited a fish/meat market. There were some fairly large gray fish in a shallow bit of water that were still alive and would sometimes squirm around (I have a little movie…if you’d like to see it, let me know). There were vegetables and many other things including various parts of a pig that I don’t usually see in the grocery stores I frequent (unless it’s in sausage) like a pig head and pig blood…yuck!
We ate at a Zippy’s which is a Hawaiian restaurant chain. I had chili moco (chili, rice, hunks of hamburger patty, and eggs). It wasn’t bad.
Limousines for the Japanese tourists who were visiting the famous tree from the commercial.
The famous tree.
Kids jumping in front of the famous tree.
A palm tree.
Another cool tree.
Some kids and some koi fish.
Chinatown. Will & Elizabeth.
Clockwise from upper left. Squid --- Will with pig blood and goat meat --- Pig head --- Pig liver, stomach, and bone --- My sister, Amy, and a large avocado.
Steve, Will, and Jim with chickens hanging in the background.
Zippy's
Chili Moco from Zippy’s!
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