Woke up rather late on Tuesday morning. Cleaning guy kept on knocking at my door. Maybe he thought there was a dead body inside waiting to be discovered… It happens. Just not me yet.
For breakfast, I went to Shirokiya and bought some mochi cream (desert for breakfast, woohoo!), spam musubi, and cabbage oshinko. Coffee was attained at Vintage Hawaiian (Hawaiian honey coffee again). Made the mistake of stepping inside a tea store and ended up buying some interesting tea leaves for my sister along with pretty cups that I think I’ll give to her as well.
Contacts hurt too much at that point so I went back to my hotel room to remove them.
I didn’t think I’d have enough to go to the museum and have a good look around before getting kicked out since it would take a while to get there. Had to think of something else to do. I decided that going to the Honolulu Zoo might be fun. It’s close by and who doesn’t like watching caged animals pace around neurotically?
Looking at the map of the zoo, I thought it’d be really small. Instead I found it to be just small. >.>;; They had a peacock caged in a really small space. At one point he opened up his tail feathers at something. Maybe at the other bird, but his butt was towards me. I took a picture of that. Slightly voyeuristic, but hey, I thought it was funny.
I learned about Hawaii’s state bird, the nene. It almost went extinct at one point, but people managed to save and breed the few that were left. (It’s a pity they couldn’t do the same with the dodo.)
At 5:30, the zoo closed, so it was time to go back to the hotel. I walked along Kalakaua looking at shops. There was a shop that sold shirts dyed with the red dirt from Kaua’i. They had 1 women’s t-shirt, but it said Maui and Kaua’i. Why would I buy a shirt that has locations of places I never visited? That seemed silly.
Imaginary conversation I had about the shirt:
Other person: “Nice shirt!”
Me: “Thanks! I got it in Hawaii.”
Other person: “So you visited Maui and Kaua’i?”
Me: “Um. No. I bought it on Oahu.”
Other person: “Oh.”
How lame!
Found a Beard Papa’s. Bought a haupia cream puff. It’s just coconut flavored, but the taste was very light, so I liked it. They also had savory puffs, which was just over-priced mini sandwiches. They looked good and I wanted to buy one, but for dinner I already had plans on what I wanted to eat.
Dinner was spaghetti at Angelo Pietro’s. Ordered the eggplant and spicy ground beef spaghetti. So good.
