LET'S EAT ALREADY !

 
Forget the candles...forget that silly song - IT'S CHOCOLATE FOR GOD'S SAKE !

Wax volcanoes

 
Making lava by hand, old Hawaiian tradition

Grandpa Gene observes

 
Always with the play therapy this guy....

Rotating Jake

 
Fun at Queen Emma park for Vinny's #4

Happy Birthday boy

 
Vinny spins

Banzai !

 
I'm assuming that it says something like "Very sorry to wish you a Happy Mother's Day, if that is ok."

My turn

 
Might read "I heart radical once a year haircuts"

Jake onstage

 
So not the performer - in his blood

Hanging out with fellow alums

 
At the Children's Center Mother's Day Extravaganza. Jake informs me that my pronunciation (Extrava-GAN-zah) is incorrect - he prefers Extra-VAH-GAHN-zah. Whotta snob.

Lily's concert

 

Hawaii Youth Chorus at Maemae

Possible captions:

 

• Boys will be boys


• We only read the menu


• Some days are just better than others


• I feel so dirty


• Wow! You're the best dad in the whole wide world !

Jake's P-40

 

Note refernce model in forground

TI WINS !!!!!!

Here's her auana

and here's the kahiko

Sorry to make you link - can't embed these in the blog cuz the poster disabled it....

While I was in San Francisco Ti was busy becoming Miss Aloha Hula 2007. Awesome...truly cool.

Kim, Lily and Jake went over to the Big Island and caught the kahiko performance then drove out to the Pond House to go to bed. No TV reception out there so they had to wait until the next day to find out that Ti took it !

The kids ran along with Ti as she toured Hilo in the Merrie Monarch closing parade.

Here's a link or two:
A slideshow of photos of Ti
Photo gallery of the competitors
A TV Interview with Ti

San Francisco

Wow. I love SF.

Ate dinner with Margel, Steve, John, and Rachel at Le Central - tres bon. Super, hyper bon.

Hung out with DW and scouted his future surfing grounds at Ocean Beach. While butt cold and sharky, it did have the benefit of being uncrowded (duh).

Oh right...I was there for work...went to the Museums and the Web conference where I got to meet people like me from all over the world. Actually that's one of the things that I like about the conference - I NEVER meet people like me. The attendees are as diverse as you can possibly imagine. Men, women, young, old, artsy, science-y, geek, non-geek, from the MOMA and Smithsonian all the way down to small local museums. Really interesting crowd.

Hadn't visited SF since hanging out with UofAPilot quite a long time ago when he lived in the Castro.

Vote for the Hawai‘i Quarter !

Guess which one I like the best.

Vote for my favorite here.

UPDATE: APRIL 24th
Boo. They didn't choose it. Sigh

A (killer) Trip to the Big Island

A Trip to the Big Island

Wow. All I can say is wow. Took our first Spring Break to the Big Island and stayed at a great house at Kapoho. Mahalos to Charlie for the contact info - in case any body wants to know, here's a great place to stay - convenient, cheap(ish), friendly owner, close to snorkeling, full-on nice kitchen....wow. Took the kids up to the volcano and into the lava tube - made sure to bring our flashlights so that we could go in the special "not-lighted" side and freaked them out when we showed them true, utter, blackness. Nothing years of therapy can't solve

Exploring

 

Took Jake to the car show and turned him loose with Calvin.

Driving with Calvin

 

Jake and Vinny check out the newest Cobalt.

Lily looking like a big girl

 

Lily picked out her clothes the other day and as soon as I saw her I had to grab the camera since she had suddently aged three years. *sigh*

Sally Golightly

OK. Call me deranged, say that I've been assimilated fully into the wacko poodle owners club...

But I swear that Sally Sparkle looks like Audrey Hepburn with her new haircut

I told Al that I thought that with the big poofy ears she looked like AH in My Fair Lady. He thought I was nuts. But he's right...Sally looks like she's straight out of Breakfast at Tiffany's"