Hawaii Trip, Day #3: Ho'omaluhia Botanical Garden + Exploring Waikiki

I was excited for this day! On the itinerary: Visit a Botanical Garden. I researched a few Botanical Gardens and found that Ho'omaluhia Botanical Garden had wonderful reviews. I loved the pictures and decided that we just HAD to visit there. Figured, Little Guy can run around and see some nature.

Here is what it looked like:

How beautiful is that view! Little Guy had fun running around in the open area. Not many "No-No's" from me! We went by the lake, where they have a plethora of Koi Fish. Little Guy decided to eat the food instead of throwing it to the fish. But he loved looking at them and watching them. 

There's even a place to go fishing. Little Guy was too young for that though, so we settled for running around and feeding the fish. 

Afterwards, we laid out the beach towels and had a picnic by the lake. 

Everything was going well until it started raining. At first, it was just drizzling. Then, it started to poor! Like torrential rain! I brought an umbrella, but of course left it in the hotel room! Duh. Little Guy was fine in his stroller, it was me who get drenched. Like no joke - all the way through. It was tough pushing the stroller through the wet grass, but we got out of there when it didn't look like the rain would let up. 

Exploring Waikiki 

After we got back to the hotel after getting rained on, we took a nice afternoon nap! I know I needed it after all that adventure. After we got up, we explored Waikiki. Went up and down the streets, checking out some stores, had dinner. We ended up running into a performance at the beach with some Polynesian dancers. It was really nice sitting by the beach and watching some dancing.

Little Guy was dancing and singing. He was also trying to talk to all of the people around us! He went up to a guy and starred at him in the face until he looked up, then he started laughing and ran away. I guess that's how he makes friends! Silly boy.

After watching a few performances, Little Guy was getting antsy and we started heading back to the hotel. Here was the gorgeous sunset that day. 

Best Part of the Day: Having a picnic by the lake.

Worst Part of the Day: Getting rained on!