Friday - February 7

Friday - February 7

Today we visited the Honolulu Museum of Art, took a tour of Doris Duke's Shangri-La, and took a looooong walk around Waikiki to the Army Museum at Fort Derussy.  What a full day of new adventures!

We started the day at the Honolulu Museum where we gathered to board a bus to take us to Doris Duke's Shangri-La home.

We had a very good tour leader named Mif - enthusiastic and very informative.

We drove down a gated long drive to a house that looked really bland.  Doris Duke planned it that way.  She liked her privacy and her house didn't have any windows facing the front.  It did have a couple of happy camels on either side of her front door.  

We weren't able to take photos inside the house but these are from her backyard which overlooked the ocean.

We were told that beaches in Hawaii cannot be "private" so many people swim and sunbathe right below Doris Duke's house.

We returned to the Museum after the tour to walk through the galleries.  We both like this museum and the variety of things on display.

More feathers.....

Tattoo'd woman...

This is a goat with a motor installed so it puffed air out of its mouth and made the pinwheel turn.  Unfortunately, we heard the motor (quite loud) but never saw the pinwheel turn...some malfunction?!?!?

The gift shop was one of the best too -  

 

We headed out on foot from Honolulu Museum to the Army Museum.  On paper it didn't look that long of a walk but whoever created the map was a bit deceiving.  It took about 1.5 hours to get there as there were buildings blocking our way and we had more twists and turns.  We did get to walk over the canal and view some kayakers - beautiful venue!

When we arrived at the Amy Museum, we had about 20 minutes to rush through the exhibits.

As we left town we stopped at what has become our usual Starbucks to wait out the traffic on the freeway.   When we left it started drizzling and became a regular downpour as we headed up the north coast.  It really is like two different climates.