Festivals

On Saturday morning we were quite ambitious.  Aaron had heard about this amazing breakfast place over in Kailua, which is on the east side of the island.  We got up early and headed over there. A lot of the reviews on yelp had said that the wait could be over one hour.  We got there and we only had to wait 20 minutes.  The food is basic American style with the Hawaiian twist of span and Portuguese sausage and of course our favorite, buttermilk pancakes with macadamia nuts syrup.  I really need to figure out how to make this stuff.  After we ate we stopped off at the beach.  The waves looked so amazing that we we decided to go body boarding at 10am.  It was a lot of fun, even that early.






After body boarding we heading out to do another waterfall hike.  The hike we did was called Manoa Falls.  It is a gentle, 2 mile hike round trip.  It is a great hike but since it had just rained the path was quite muddy.   We sort of had to laugh at a couple who obviously didn't know what they were getting into because they were hiking the tail wearing all white.....

At one point on the trail I looked up to see this beautiful ceiling provided by the overhead trees.  Pretty cool sight.

Aaron had heard about this jazz festival at one of the local botanical gardens, Foster Botanical Garden.  The name was called A Mid Summer Nights Gleam.  They had a bunch of activities for kids with interesting sculptures using items from the garden.


This tree was one of the weirdest trees there.  It is called the cannon ball tree and has what looks like cannon balls growing on it.  They fall off frequently I guess, from what the sign say.

I thought this sign was worded funny.

Weird Arangatang sculpture in one of the trees.

Owl

Bear

Lion

They had these drum dancers that were pretty cool.  Three drummers were drumming on stage while two people inside the dragon went around throughout the audience dancing. 

We were in the mood for festivals I guess this past weekend.  We also decided to go to the Ukelele Festival held every year here in Honolulu.  It seemed to be a big deal here and it was pretty cool.