ART AFTER DARK

Did a dry run this morning to see how long it takes to get to Magic Island since we have to be there at 7:15 am. We are counting whales for the marine sanctuary. It seemed like a good idea when we signed up in Sacramento, not so good now that we have to get up so early. It's four hours from eight in the morning to noon, but we have to be there at 7:15 to get our assignment.
After our regular afternoon beach time we went to the Honolulu art museum for Art After Dark. This is the event that I went to the Goodwill to get some nice pants for. As it turned out, people our age were in every range of dress. This event is meant to draw younger people to the museum. So they have noisy DJs in every courtyard and the young people do show up in huge quantities, super short dresses and ultra
high heels. They have things going on where you can win some prizes by doing tweets while you're at the event or do Facebook posts. Clearly, these gimmicks are done so that they can attract the people who spend most of their time with their noses in their cell phones. It is apparently a successful event. I dont know how often they have it, but when we went in, the information said they would let in the first 2000 people and after that they would let people in as others left. The music becomes annoyingly loud for people our age. But the younger people are all socializing in the courtyard so the gallery rooms aren't really very full. This museum doesn't have a very large collection but their modern stuff is really interesting.