July 07, 2009
Honolulu mode (not as whimsical as Nekomimi Mode)
Spent the last week in Maui for my brother's wedding. The actual wedding was quite nice - crashing waves on the rocks, short service by a minister who delivered the most ecumenical service I've ever seen. Tons of great food! Also a good chance to see some of the extended family, many of whom I haven't seen in some years.
Didn't actually get up to that much as far as traditional "you are in Hawaii!" activities. The only thing I surf is the net, thanks. Still, though, I managed to break my personal altitude-not-in-vehicle record at the peak of Mt. Haleakala, at 10,023 feet, and got some great pictures from up there. We did about 2/3 of the road to Hana, essentially until we got sick of "oh, what, ANOTHER waterfall?"
Most of the guests flew out yesterday, and today we decamped from Maui, in favor of an extended day in Honolulu. Went straight from the airport to Pearl, where we took the Arizona tour (very sober experience, that; I might write more about it.) Left to my own devices, I'd have probably spent the rest of the day wandering around inside the Bowfin, or maybe taking the Big Mo tour. Unfortunately, while Dad would probably have been happy to do it, Mom and her sister were unlikely to (and the youngest brother is highly unlikely to approve of any activity that doesn't allow him to chat incessantly on his cell phone with his partner about their Highlander-sword-replica business venture and/or trying to score.) Rest of the day was spent on some shopping in Waikiki and relaxing some. Honestly, we've got a bad split as far as time spent in town - another day would have let us do something ambitious.
Can't really complain, though - seeing the Arizona Memorial was definitely on my "do it someday" list, and so that's one less thing to worry about.
We're flying out late tomorrow night, and between the travel and the time shift, we won't be back in Houston until tomorrow afternoon, and THEN I've got to drive back to Dallas sometime. And, of course, the back half of the contract work came in, so I'll go straight from vacation to over-employed... not that that's a terrible thing, mind.
I'll process pics when I get home and have some spare time. Definitely don't want to overdo it (and, frankly, I'm not that great a photographer...)
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Didn't actually get up to that much as far as traditional "you are in Hawaii!" activities. The only thing I surf is the net, thanks. Still, though, I managed to break my personal altitude-not-in-vehicle record at the peak of Mt. Haleakala, at 10,023 feet, and got some great pictures from up there. We did about 2/3 of the road to Hana, essentially until we got sick of "oh, what, ANOTHER waterfall?"
Most of the guests flew out yesterday, and today we decamped from Maui, in favor of an extended day in Honolulu. Went straight from the airport to Pearl, where we took the Arizona tour (very sober experience, that; I might write more about it.) Left to my own devices, I'd have probably spent the rest of the day wandering around inside the Bowfin, or maybe taking the Big Mo tour. Unfortunately, while Dad would probably have been happy to do it, Mom and her sister were unlikely to (and the youngest brother is highly unlikely to approve of any activity that doesn't allow him to chat incessantly on his cell phone with his partner about their Highlander-sword-replica business venture and/or trying to score.) Rest of the day was spent on some shopping in Waikiki and relaxing some. Honestly, we've got a bad split as far as time spent in town - another day would have let us do something ambitious.
Can't really complain, though - seeing the Arizona Memorial was definitely on my "do it someday" list, and so that's one less thing to worry about.
We're flying out late tomorrow night, and between the travel and the time shift, we won't be back in Houston until tomorrow afternoon, and THEN I've got to drive back to Dallas sometime. And, of course, the back half of the contract work came in, so I'll go straight from vacation to over-employed... not that that's a terrible thing, mind.
I'll process pics when I get home and have some spare time. Definitely don't want to overdo it (and, frankly, I'm not that great a photographer...)
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"oh, what, ANOTHER waterfall?"
I had the same reaction after a couple of days in Seattle: "Oh, look, another gawd-damned beautiful mountain."
I had the same reaction after a couple of days in Seattle: "Oh, look, another gawd-damned beautiful mountain."
Posted by: Wonderduck at July 07, 2009 11:20 PM (eVY9y)
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Ain't it just?
Don't get me wrong, if work said "oh hey, we need you to go work at the Maui branch, here's the requisite pay adjustment now move your butt", I wouldn't say no. (Of course we have no Hawaii branch, nor would we...)
My only real regret is that conditions around Haleakala were cloudy more or less all the time, so there wasn't ever really a good day to get the "I'm at 10,000 feet and I can see all of Hawaii from here!" picture. I'd say "and that with my folks there, I couldn't do any of the really strenuous hiking" except that I'm not so sure that I'm in the condition for strenuous hiking m'self these days. Need to hit the treadmill...
Don't get me wrong, if work said "oh hey, we need you to go work at the Maui branch, here's the requisite pay adjustment now move your butt", I wouldn't say no. (Of course we have no Hawaii branch, nor would we...)
My only real regret is that conditions around Haleakala were cloudy more or less all the time, so there wasn't ever really a good day to get the "I'm at 10,000 feet and I can see all of Hawaii from here!" picture. I'd say "and that with my folks there, I couldn't do any of the really strenuous hiking" except that I'm not so sure that I'm in the condition for strenuous hiking m'self these days. Need to hit the treadmill...
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