Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Oahu

Rachelle at the Reptile Exhibit :: Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Oahu

L&L Drive-Inn, Ala Moana Shopping Center, Honolulu, Oahu

Lauren & Seth :: Aina Haina, Oahu

Channon, Rachel, Danny, Carissa, Danae :: Aina Haina, Oahu

Last week Friday Dallas and I went to the Bishop Museum in Honolulu. The museum was founded in 1889 by Charles Bishop in honor of his late wife, Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop, the last decendant of the royal Kamehameha family. The museum houses extensive collections of Hawaiian and Pacific Island artifacts, documents and photographs. Bishop Museum is the largest museum in Hawaii. My favorite exhibit was the one where they showed how so many different cultures came together in Hawaii. From other Pacific Islanders in the beginning, to Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Portuegese, Phillippino, Korean, etc.

After the museum we went to Ala Moana Shopping Center, this huge-ass mall that has like 300 stores. I did a little shopping. Dallas was hungry for chicken katsu so we went to L&L Drive-Inn for lunch.

That night we went to Kathy’s Auntie Kitty’s (sp?) house in Aina Haina for dinner. All of Kathy’s good friends and family in Oahu were there. Many of them hadn’t gotten together for quite a while so it was a family reunion of sorts. Someone must have felt Dallas’ earlier craving for chicken katsu becuase there was a TON of it for dinner.. along with many other traditional Korean and Hawaiian dishes.

See also:
» Bishop Museum & Family Dinner (Kodak Gallery, 20 photos)