Long weekend

It's Tuesday, at the end of President's Day weekend. We stayed close to home, fighting off a virus and grading papers. I also have been pushing to finish revising a long essay that I thought was done, but came back to me with requests for extensive revisions soon after we got here. But we did get out. Got to go to the third of the three Costcos on the island!

We saw a shark, as you can see from the picture. We stopped by Pipeline again today to watch the professional body boarding competition--click on it and you'll see what's going on. It's impressive. And this is how we look after six weeks in Hawaii. 

Greg

Saturday

Elayne's last day here. We started the day by going to the farmer's market on the North Shore to get local fruit and vegies and look at the arts and crafts. Then we crossed the street to join the crowds of onlookers watching the crowds of surfers on Pipeline. 

In the afternoon, we body-surfed behind our house--but I too a couple of waves that were too big and got a bump on my head and scrape on the forehead. My students were impressed that I actually get in the water.

For dinner we went to the BYUH "Foodfest"--where students prepare and sell food from their home countries We took Elayne to Honolulu to the airport as we were getting sunset color in the sky.

Greg

Waimea Valley

Waimea Valley is an Audubon preserve on the North Shore that is a tropical botanical garden. We took my mother there last Sunday. These are only a few of the pictures--you can post too many. With plants, you kinda had to be there. There's also a picture of Elayne with her paunchy son, and one of Olivia Dawn (age 30, 3 feet diameter) basking serenely on the beach.

Greg

Saturday in Honolulu

Yesterday we spent money. We started at the farmer's market on the North Shore and got lots of fresh local fruit and vegetables at a premium price. Then we went to Honolulu to the Aloha Stadium "swap meet"--which is really a massive gathering of vendors of clothes, jewelry, crafts, and varieties of preserved Asian foods. It is set up on the circular road that surrounds the stadium that will soon host the Pro Bowl. Lots of people think it's lots of fun. We bought, among other things, a matching mumu and aloha shirt, in case we want to arrange to take tickets at the Polynesian Cultural Center luau and get a free meal. Don't know if it's worth it.

The main event in Honolulu yesterday was picking my my mother, Elayne, from the airport. We had some time to kill between the swap meeting and the airport so we checked out the visitors center at the Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor. You get on a boat at there and go out to the memorial itself. The picture shows the memorial from the visitor's center. 

Mom arrived safely, and we took her directly to Chinatown for dim sum.

Greg