Shane, you just keep coming up with this cool stuff!
You get the jonisleuth award!
shane mattison wrote:
> They took all the trees
> And put them in a tree museum
> And they charged all the people
> A dollar and a half just to see 'em
>
> we already knew about honolulu's royal hawaiian hotel being the pink hotel in
> joni's song Big Yellow Taxi...
> the news is that dave donelly, reporter for honolulu's Star-Bulletin, inform's
> us that:
> <<"Big Yellow Taxi," by the way, was written about Hawaii and the "tree
> museum" she sang about where they charged you to see the trees was Foster
> Garden ...>>
> new fees to see the trees?:
> Admission
> $5.00 - General, 13 years and older
> $3.00 - Resident of Hawaii, 13 years and older with ID
> $1.00 - Child, 6 to 12 years old
> FREE - Child, 5 years old and under (must be with adult)
> $25.00 - Annual family pass
> (May be used at Foster Botanical Garden and the Honolulu Zoo.)
>
> its gone up to 5 bucks just to see 'em, but yippy eye eh, you can see 'em for
> free at:
> oh boy aerial view:
> http://www.co.honolulu.hi.us/parks/facility/foster/fbgaeria.htm
> oh boy close ups:
> http://members.nbci.com/mblais/fosterbg.htm
> and jus' like joni said, they got "plans":
> oh boy master plan:
> http://www.co.honolulu.hi.us/parks/facility/foster/index.htm
> and as thomas merton pointed out, the first planted tree was only significant
> because it was planted by the mayor's daughter...
>
> shane
