A local improve group, On the Spot Improv, wrote a scripted play called, Jane Austen Zombie Apocalypse. It was based on if zombies had been in Jane Austen stories. So you can see why I had to go to something like this. I got to the theater early so I took some pictures around town first.
I don't know what this is but it's from a tree and looked neat so I took a picture of it.
Here you can see an L & L Drive In. They have great Spam Musubi. But Drive In's here have nothing to do with driving.
A flying turtle!
A street in China Town with the sea in the back ground.
This guy seems like a nice fellow.
The girl here looks happy now, but as soon as she saw who was standing next to her that smile became a look of terror. It was rather funny.
This girl was also questioning her seat.
Before the intermission they got a little hungry and had to have a snack.
Photo time with the zombies afterward.
The play was great and hilarious! After watching a play about zombies it sounded like a good idea to walk through downtown at night.
Here is Ali`iolani Hale or 'King Kamehameha V - Judiciary History Center' at night.
This is 'Iolani Palace, the Queens old house.
Thankfully I did not see any zombies on my walk home. Which is good because there is no place to run from zombie hordes when you're on a small island with more than 963,000 people living on it.
Kris made a post about this hike a long time ago but since I am so far behind in my posts and I refuse to do them out of chronological order, I'm just getting to it now. I just re-looked at Topher's post and mine might seem like a repeat if you saw his but I do add some new pictures and I have video! To see his post click here but look at mine first if you haven't already seen his so it seems like he copied my pictures. :-)
This is the Oklahoman Hike. Also nick named 3 peaks hike because there are three peaks you can hike too. Many people stop at the first peak because it offers the best view but we of course did them all.
We parked the car and can see our first destination.
Here is a nice little old run down shack and large creepy tree. I'm sure no evil monsters live here when it gets dark. Note to self, get back to the car before dark.
Here's Topher playing with a large snail. Hopefully Topher does not upset the snail because it is probably buddies with the big evil monster.
These are just trees...but I'm sure you knew that already.
This is while we were on our wild boar hunt! We heard sounds but saw no pigs. Although Topher was ready to shoot it if we did... with his camera of course.
Just a little farther now to the first peak. (Note, if you're Sheldon that was sarcasm.)
There is a lot of red dirt here caused by the high amounts of iron from the volcano lava.
There are a lot more pine trees on this island than I would have guessed. These were nice soft pine needle trees. I think that is actually there name, 'Nice Soft Pine Needle Pine Tree'.
So soft you could easily take a nap in them.
We have made it to the steeper part of the hike. So up we go!
It was rather cloudy when we made it to the top of peak one but here is the view.
This is looking at peak two on the left, and peak three on the right. Peak three is either making clouds or will erupt soon. We should probably go check it out... you know, for science reasons.
As indicated by Topher's camera strap, it was quite windy on top.
Down we go, so we can go up again, and then back down, and then back up, then turn around and do it all in reverse. Why do I like hiking again? Oh yea, this view.
Some of the clouds cleared out and this is the view from peak two.
Peak three
The trail got steep at some points.
A video of Topher's climb down.
There's Topher on the other side taking pictures of peak two while I take a picture of peak three.
If you saw Topher's blog this is where he took the picture of his shoes and the edges of the rock he was standing on.
Another short video clip of Topher 'hiking'. You might notice the video seems a little wavy. That is because I can't hold a camera steady and the wave is the effect of YouTube fixing my shaky hand.
This is the view from peak three.
Peak one on the left, peak two on the right.
This is the trail on top of peak three.
This little army guy was keeping this peak safe from evil intruders... oh wait, the evil monster... time to go! (Mouse over to see what's in the distance.)
Well it's time to go back down.
They have colorful rocks and moss here.
This is Topher in a tree. Why is he in a tree? Well for one, why not, and for a second, I think he has a tree climbing addiction.
We are back to peak one now and some of the clouds have moved on. So I took more pictures.
This is the Koʻolau Mountain Range, which is not a typical mountain range. This was one mountain but in prehistoric times the entire eastern half, including much of the summit, slid cataclysmically into the Pacific Ocean. [source] Because you know I didn't come up "cataclysmically" myself.
I was just up there.
I heard a boar snort! On the hunt again! ... no boars to be found. :-(
The day started out early, about 4:30-5:00 am early. We got up this early to go see the sunrise. As you can tell from the picture it was a 'little' cloudy.
Here is the view from the parking area outside of Diamond Head crater with the 'beautiful' sunrise in the background.
Next up, the hike up Diamond Head Crater. The hike is .8 miles long and ascends 560 feet up, one way.
It was a little windy at the top.
The view looking toward Honolulu. On the right you can see an old army bunker on top of the ridge, and the green area below is Kapiolani park.
Going down the the four story spiral staircase that was made when this was an active military look out.
In the parking lot of The Pearl Harbor Historic Sites. We actually got here early and decided to have a little nap time.
That's a big anchor. It used to belong to the USS Arizona.
I don't think that is what they mean by man the torpedoes.
This is where the boat is supposed to be to take us out to the USS Arizona Memorial. However the Coast Guard declared it to windy for any boats to be in the harbor so we did not get to get on the memorial.
This picture shows the USS Arizona Memorial, the battleship Missouri Memorial, and the boat right before us that was the last one to brave the winds for the day.
Here is a model of the the USS Arizona memorial. The ship's hull is entirely under water.
The next few pictures are of the USS Bowfin submarine. It had a successful record; Which included sinking a crane and a bus.
That is a lot of gauges and shiny things to turn.
Apparently if the ship ran out of fuel they could just use the hand power leaver.
These two are ready to protect our seas.
Our next stop was to get souvenirs! And there is no better place to get souvenirs than the International Market Place. I don't have pictures of it but it consists of at least a hundred little shops mostly trying to sell the same souvenir items to all the tourist.
We made it home for the evening and settled down with a nice Thai dinner. The kids liked it and...
We even got my sister to eat some.
After dinner it was time for bed!
Day 6
Our last day we went to beautiful Kailua Beach. Sadly it did rain but we still had a great time.
What better way to end a vacation than learning about the stock market from Topher.
It was so much fun having family visit, it's too bad they had to go back to the real world.
