A palace, a museum, and a flight to Maui

Today was our last day in Oahu before we fly over to Maui. so again we walked over to the harbor pub for breakfast, like I said it does the job. After that, we drove over to the Ioleni Palace, which was built by the last king of Hawaii and is the only royal residence in the United States. We would’ve had to pay just to get inside as well as work our way around some field trip groups, so we just walked around the grounds outside, which were kinda nice. We also walked around the Capitol area of Honolulu to see all the different buildings and the Christmas decorations they had up. they also have a big statue of King Kamehameha, who was the first king of Hawaii. We then drove over to the Bishop museum, which we had free admission to with our hotel key and was kind of cool. We thought this would be a good way to kill the rest of the time before we heading to the airport. It was a pretty nice museum a lot of nice Hawaiian cultural items in there. After that, we stopped at a ridiculously crowded Costco gas station to fill up the rental and headed to the airport. No issues with our flight and we got into Maui on time.

Once in Maui we grabbed our rental and drove to the Residence Inn. We then grabbed dinner at a place rightby us called Monkeypod Kitchen by Merriman (Merriman is apparently a restaurant group in Hawaii). We ate at the bar and naturally the bartender was originally from the western suburbs of Chicago.