Happy Birthday Gina

This picture was actually taken one year ago, at Gina's birthday dinner at Bucco de Peppo. I have several fun pictures I will post from Monday's eventful day as soon as I can find my camera. I have seemed to misplaced it, and I can not find it any where, AAAAAUUUUUUGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!

This year is was girls day out. We started our adventures at the Bishop's Museum. Thanks to Gina, Jen and Sara we got in free since they work at the PCC. It was really interesting. We watched a presentation at the planetarium, learning about huge telescopes they have built on the top of Mauna Kea, a volcano on the Big Island. We learned about several constellations and how everything revolves around the north star. On the way home Sarah said, "Do you think the north star is heaven?" Just something to think about. Then we walked around and looked at some really cool art and ancient hawaiian artifacts. Then we headed to the volcano presentation where they showed us how volcano's erupt, they had a demonstration where they show you what an actual lava flow looks like. I also learned how the Hawaiian islands were created. So I started to explain it and realized I was doing it no justice, so I just googled it and here is a great explanation: read, it is interesting, this is for Corissa, who when visiting asked me this question, "Are all the islands volcanoes?" and I did not have the answer, and now I do!

Click here to see the complete explanation with pictures:


The beautiful Hawaiian Islands sit on the creator of the island chain, the Hawaiian Hotspot. The hotspot does not move. The Pacific Plate does. The plate carries the islands in a northwestwardly direction. As each island was formed it was carried away from the hotspot and another formed in its place.
The oldest major Hawaiian island, Kauai, was formed over the hotspot 6 million years ago. The Pacific plate drifted away from the hotspot, the Kauai volcanoes died out, and another volcano rose in its place to create the island of Oahu.
The process repeated and created a chain of similar islands. The volcanoes on the islands of Kauai and Oahu are extinct. Haleakala, on the island of Maui, is a dormant volcano. Volcanologists say that it is "due" for an eruption soon (within 100 years).
The island of Hawaii has 3 active volcanoes -- Hualalai, Mauna Loa, and Kilauea at 4,000 feet on the southern slope of Mauna Loa. Kilauea is the most active and its crater, Hakema'uma'u, is the Hawaiian volcano goddess' (Pele) home. South of Hawaii, the seamount of Loihi is building and will become another island in 10,000 years.

Last of all we went the the whale exhibition it had huge models of the different kind of whales, which will have to wait and be shown and soon as I find my camera, there are some great pictures from that!:)

After we left there we headed to China town for lunch and we randomly picked a restaurant that was amazing, everything we tried was tasty, even all of the desserts. Gina decided to order a few different desserts to try and they were all good! Next we hit up the Ala Moana Center did a little shopping and then it was off to Haleiwa Eats, a fabulous Thai restaurant were we saw like three different people we knew from our ward and friends, Cameron and Lindsay Rondo were their with their family who is visiting, Jordan and Rachelle Larsen and then Levin and Amanda Gunther were all their eating, like I said it is a fabulous place! So we each got something different to eat and shared, YUMMY! What a great way to end the day.

Something interesting about this day, Gina decided to invite all of her very best friends and none of us knew each other with the exception of me and Sara Duffin, we know each other:) And we all got along pretty well, we all had similiar personalities. She has good friends.

Happy Birthday Gina, I hope your day was all you expected and more!!