Hawaiian Animals

There is a daycare center at the beginning of our street. They have a pair of goats there; to keep the children happy I guess. Usually they're gnawing on the fence trying to escape or sitting by the door waiting for food. On our walk one morning, we saw this.Apparently they rest on the area where the children eat. As a public health major, the names of a million infectious diseases come to mind, but that's ok. We're in Hawaii right? And it's just funny.

Last Sunday, we went to dinner at the cousins'. My cousin Blaze had gone fishing/spearing that morning and brought his spoils to share. It's an octopus. A fairly good sized one too. When you cook it, it turns red and pink. It's a favorite around here. I thought it was pretty cool to just have my cousin bring freshly speared octopus to dinner. I've never had that happen before.

On our drive yesterday, we happened upon the Kualoa Ranch Country Fair. Kualoa Ranch is where the tourists can go to horseback ride. Parts of Jurassic Park were also filmed in there. We decided to stop and take a look. They were having their yearly rodeo. It was an interesting sight to be watching a rodeo with the ocean in the background.
After the Rodeo, we continued driving and happened upon a state park. When we drove in, this is what we saw. Isn't that kindof creepy? We were so confused. Not another soul in sight. At final count, there were at least 65-75 cats. Yet another thing I've never seen before. As we were about to drive out, another car pulled in and a lady got out. The cats circled around her as she opened her trunk and started feeding them. How nice of her, yet still kindof creepy. We decided she is the ultimate cat lady. Can you tell we were afraid to get out of our car? We saw this sign posted and thought it was funny/ironic. I think when you come to visit, this state park will need to be one of our stops.

Here is a video account of our happening upon the cats. You can tell how weirded out we were. In case you're interested...