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Cheryl, I've always pronounced Kaua'i "cow eye" but do not know if that is correct. I have heard it pronounced a few different ways during our 2 visits there.
Cheryl, I've always pronounced Kaua'i "cow eye" but do not know if that is correct. I have heard it pronounced a few different ways during our 2 visits there.
I was pronouncing it "cow-ee", but again I'm not sure that's right, as like you, I've heard it pronounced different ways.
Monday 11 November – part three: are we ever going to get food?
Next we headed into the Bishop Museum's newest exhibition in the Pacific Hall, which looks at Oceania, and I thought this was really interesting. Until today, I had no idea how many islands made up Polynesia. Sure, I’d heard of some places, but when you look at the map, they were only a small proportion of the ones that exist, which makes you realise how much more there is to explore in this world.
From there, having finished the Hawaiian Hall, we headed outside and saw the much more modern Richard T Mamiya Science Adventure Centre. I personally preferred the historic building.
We also got some lovely views of the Honolulu skyline….
As we were both getting hungry, we headed to the Café Pulama, which was a nightmare to find. It turns out that the main entrance to it is actually back out through the entrance to the museum, then you turn left, which is a bit odd.
Fortunately, we headed there early at around 11:25am, and I asked for a vegetarian Panini, but they didn’t have some of the ingredients – I didn’t catch which ones. I then asked what else someone who didn’t eat meat could have, and to be blunt, there wasn’t much available. I ended up with a pasta salad, which was Ok, but nothing special, and some pineapple:
Mark went for the American Panini, made up of roast turkey, Swiss, and tomato, with roasted garlic, green leaf, and fresh basil – grilled on fresh sourdough. My goodness, he had a wait for his. I was done eating by the time he got it. That wouldn’t have been so bad, but we asked if we could open up a new seating area, as there was no seating left in the open area, and they told us that was fine, but we couldn’t hear from up there when they called out another new order.
Once we were done eating, we headed out, but Mark managed to fall over as he was putting his trash away, scraping his arm quite badly.
I wanted to go and look at the Na Ulu Kaiwi’Ula native Hawaiian garden, but to be honest, this was a complete bust. There really wasn’t much to see here at all, which was a great shame.
With that, we headed out. I didn’t want to brave the LEGO Travel Adventures exhibition or the Science Centre, as we knew they’d both be packed with families, and let’s just say some of the behaviour we’d seen from kids here so far today didn’t inspire confidence. We’d already seen some running about in the Hawaiian Hall, and I genuinely didn’t feel that was an appropriate place to do things like that.
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Oh dear, lunch did not sound very pleasing . Hope Marks arm was okay.
I hear you about kids running around - that drives me crazy to see - especially at a place like that
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What a great museum. This is one place I'd have to schedule a full day for, I think-- except I'd leave to get some lunch!
That's the only issue with it. From what I could see of its location when we arrived, there was nowhere nearby to get any food. I guess that means they don't have to worry too much about the quality.
Well the museum adventure started out great, but didn't end as well. That's a bummer. Sorry about Mark's fall and his arm, yikes! At least the day looks to be beautiful, I'm assuming you were able to enjoy the rest of it!
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Well the museum adventure started out great, but didn't end as well. That's a bummer. Sorry about Mark's fall and his arm, yikes! At least the day looks to be beautiful, I'm assuming you were able to enjoy the rest of it!
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We’d already seen some running about in the Hawaiian Hall, and I genuinely didn’t feel that was an appropriate place to do things like that. 
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