We went on a walking tour / food tasting in Honolulu’s Chinatown. We arrived a little early and admired some rope dragons. The picture doesn’t do them justice. Somebody put a lot of time into making these. As often happens, that person’s children didn’t want them. So they ended up in the museum.

One of the things that impressed me was a statue of Kuan Yin (there are many spellings). This is the goddess of compassion. Somebody spent a lot of time, made an elaborate robe, and draped it over the statue. Sometime in the future, someone else will create another robe for her. The people never get the robes back. They burn old robes once a year. It demonstrates a deep sense of veneration.

The more we are different, the more we are the same. The pics aren’t great, but you can see them on the website. Tomorrow we go to Hilo.