Holiday Photo's

A beautiful sunset, a Christmas Parade, and a few drinks of togetherness! Happy Thanksgiving!

Back to nature with....

Pman and Cknldy enjoyed the natural beauty of Hawaii. They visited Arboretums, Pineapple Farms, and Japanese and Chinese Temples. Note the treetrunk colors in the gum tree trunk. Beach chickens rushed to greet them as if they speak the language (I think they do)! By flight, train, bus, car, moped, and hiking they managed to see much of Oahu's beauty and fun. Did I say hiking? Pman even joined a TurkeyTrot race!

Bizter shopped, sunned, and shopped some more! Toured Northeast Oahu to see Hanama Bay, Blowhole, Pali Pass and all things in between. She has the makings of a true Hula girl...

All Together Now...

Last night after dinner at Cholo's was silly fun! Great to have Sappers girlfriend join us. Sat on beach with 6-pack and enjoyed our togetherness until the bizter laid on an ant pile. Things were quite jumpy after that but all made flight times. Thus the ending to a great, GREAT, G R E A T Thanksgiving weekend. Next come the highlights....

Last Sunday's Entertainment

Last Sunday was Art and Crafts in the Kapioloni Park and Pacific Island Day. These dancers are from Tahiti. I was thoroughly entertained....isn't he cute?

A New Zealand beard!

Sapper's home from New Zealand and he had an awesome trip! Actually it was an adventure tour with cave repelling spelunking, helicopter access bike riding, and bungee jumping. All had Rambo toughness ratings! He has a DVD of his head first bungee jump down 85 ft! And you wonder why Mothers worry...... Mom here are the birds I watched as we spoke on the phone.

St. Augustine by-the-Sea

Beautiful St. Augustine by-the-Sea church is right off Waikiki Beach. The stain glass windows are beautiful. Each arch V along the side is also a stain glass window so the church is full of light. I could not understand the priest, and the music included one who held their notes forever... Then it was Lulu's for lunch - my favorite Seared Ahi Salad with feta and capers---soooo good!

Koi and Parrot

Many beautiful Koi - Japanese Carp-will be auctioned off on ebay this week. They are on display at the Hilton Hawaiian Village along with the AMA convention-go figure. The bidding starts for this beautiful blue top koi at $2,000. Sounds to me like some smart fisherman could get rich quick if the lake fish were more colorful! The parrot colors are just beautiful - love this blue and yellow with white face with black accents. We all should dress like animals!

Stack and Rack Shopping!

Yes, right here in downtown Honolulu is a Walmart and Sam's Club however they were not easy to find! In the middle of the block is a Walmart flag - and no obvious entry. The entry is through the parking place so if your walking its puzzling. The store is surrounded by a parking garage, then another floor of parking, and on the 4th floor of parking is Sam's Club. Aha! It's a very good use of mid-block space.

So there I am without my camera (had to lighten load for hike to Walmart) watching the sunset when I see 12 sailboats out! Beautiful! The place I'm staying is at the yacht club marina and it was the first time I'd seen so many boats out. They continued to sail after the sunset with lights on in various colors. I was sound asleep before they came in...... Aloha

Another Hula!

Faster, faster, faster - how do they do it?

Deployment Ceremony...

Deployment Ceremony was so special not only because we were farewelling Sappers Combat Battle Team but also some returning after 15 months in Iraq soldiers were present. They had just arrived late the night before! Full circle experience, coming and going, a soldiers life! Even Lt Gov was present with many other VIP's. And I must admit they played Aloha, tears did appear in my eyes....