Saturday, June 21, 2008

Playing Tourist At Home


Airfare, schmarefare! me and G are going to the Hilton Waikoloa Village for the Great Waikoloa Food, Wine, and Music Festival. It's a benefit for the Children's Hospital and the Pacific Marine Research Institute.

Basically all the best chefs on the island get together and make a bunch of food and you go eat it and drink copiously while listening to Ray "GhostBusters" Parker Jr, and Jeffrey Osborne, who Grant is still trying to explain to me. I keep thinking he's Billy Ocean. Grant keeps thinking he's James Ingram. Anybody remember this dude from the 80s? at any rate, I'm looking forward to the food and booze, and especially to taking a mahogany boat thru the flower-ridden waterways to our room. Apparently this place is so big (or its guests so lazy) that you have to get around its 62 acres by tram or by boat.



And they have a dolphin show, for god's sake. Maybe you can check us out on the live webcam.

I'm a little princess. :) Pix to follow! Next week is a much different excursion: the 18-mile r/t hike to Waimanu Valley via the Muliwai Trail.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Pictures Of Other (Somewhat Exasperated) People



Here's Grant demonstrating hawai'i's famous "stink- eye". His eye got all red after he took a nap at my house. We think Doodle got jealous and put some dooky in g's eyeball while he was asleep. This was the face I got after telling him "you should go see the eye doctor."

and this is New Intern Laura, knee-deep in Kohala mud. She actually was the one who had the idea of taking a picture of her predicament! What a good sport.

New Intern Lola rescued the boot, which was reeeeeally stuck. Well done!

why i love shopping (sometimes)

baby elephant coffee mug, $1.99 @ Ross




















Audrey II, $1.oo @ farmers market









hello kitty bling shades, $17.50 @ Long's Drugs





Thursday, June 5, 2008

doggie drama: raoul learns to swim


poor raoul! we took him for his aquadog training session and it was a little traumatic. There were a lot of people on the sand beach, so we chose a rocky water entry -- in more ways than one. Nanook demonstrates the opposite of "the buddy system".



Later we found an unpopulated sandy area that raoul was much more comfortable with. He wasn't too into it at first...

..but got the hang of it eventually.

(the next day, raoul ate nanook's lifevest. was it jealousy, revenge, or just levelling the playing field? hmmm....)