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"

Colton's Birthday Party at Ala Moana

Colton's BDay at Ala Moana

Had hours of fun at Colton's 4th birthday at Ala Moana

Ceramics by Lily

 

Watch out Uncle Martin: Lily's got the bug. Pretty soon I'll have to move the musical instruments to make way for the kiln.

Just a pretty sunset picture

 

Lost Maritime Civilizations: China and the Pacific

Check out my movie that introduces people to the new exhibit at the museum.

Part 1

Part 2

• Director: Brad


• Screenplay: Brad


• Cinamatographer: Brad


• Original Score: Brad


• ADR: Brad


• Post-production: Brad


• Key Grip: Brad


• Gaffer: Brad


• Best Boy: Brad


• Editor: Brad


• Special Effects: Brad


• Narrator: Marques Marzan

Tout à fait l'auteur, non?

Mom's Home !

 

So Kim's home after 20 days in Japan. While she claims she had the best sushi in her life, she also missed local food. Like the song says:

I'm just a little Hawaiian and a homesick Island boy (girl in this case)

I want to go back to my fish and poi

Needless to say we are all glad to have her back safe and sound and WITH PRESENTS ! Jake got a Series 100 Shinkansen, to go with his previous mom's-back-from-Japan gift of a Series 300. Lily got another fancy Japanese doll, on Girl's Day (fittingly). And I got two top of the line models - an F-16 (cool) and Marco's plane from Porco Rosso ! (Super-hyper cool). Kim got hugs and kisses. We did too.

I've got an idea !

 

Definite case of GTMNH except for the fact that Mom is, in fact, here.

What could possibly go wrong?

New friends

 

Shinkansen Series 300, Gordon the Express Train, and the bradnd new Series 100 Shinkansen - thanks mom!

Shinkansen!

 

Running at the gym

 

Stretching out

 

Fun with sidewalk paint

 

The kids before the haircuts