It seems like we have been crazy busy lately...
Erica needed to have oral surgery up in the roof of her mouth right behind her teeth. She had a little tooth that had to come out,
all smiles before,
trying to still smile afterwards,
HI has been feverishly getting ready for APEC, they've spent a ton fixing up Nimitz and cleaning up after moving homeless out.
Now Evan is in the chair...
getting braces.
Saturday, while Erik worked, we went to Punahou for Lacy Veach Day of Discovery, they started with taiko-amazingly haunting Japanese drums. Lacy Veach grew up in Hawaii, he graduated from Punahou and the Air Force Academy, earned the Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal, and Purple Heart while a fighter pilot, and then became a NASA astronaut.
the head of Punahou School sang the school song and welcomed us. Punahou was founded in 1841, it's a bit famous now that a graduate has become president (Obama) and it's sports program was ranked number 1 as being the best in the US with alumni winning 17 Olympic medals. Steve case, the founder of AOL is also a grad as is the founder of ebay. The school has graduated 11 Army Generals, 3 Rear Admirals, 1 Marine Major General, and 6 Air Force Generals. I'd be here all day listing academic and other achievements. In 1975, the land known as Ka Punahou was taken in battle by King Kamehameha, he gave the 225 acres to chief Kame'eiamoku for his loyalty. His granddaughter, Liliha, gave the land to Reverend Hiram Bingham, a Christian missionary. Students attend chapel every 6 days. Tuition is $18,000...per year...that includes kindergarten too...
Next to speak and talk story was Nainoa Thompson who is an Native Hawaiian navigator and director of the Polynesian Voyaging Society. He used ancient Polynesian methods to navigate the Hokule'a and the Hawai'iloa (replicas of Polynesian double hulled voyaging canoes) from Hawaii to other Polynesian island nations. He is a graduate of Punahou as well as a very good friend of Lacy Veach.
A photo of the ko'i or adze (ax) out the window of the space shuttle as it was passing over the Hawaiian Islands. The adze quarry was on Mauna Kea-it was in fact a huge complex of quarries, work sites, shelters, and shrines from 9,000-13,000' elevation. Few places have the kind of hard rock needed for tools. The stone was lashed to a wooden handle and used to hollow out koa trees.
The kids had a workshop on using GPS,
and another on tracking the sun with a homemade device.
I thought this Bird of Paradise looked particularly bird like,
the original school hall built in 1851,
a marker for where the Bingham house stood,
the panini o kapunahou along the lava wall of Punahou was planted in 1836 by Mrs. Bingham. The hylocereus hedge is huge-300 meters long and has these huge spectacular flowers that bloom at night,
we had a hedge of these at the very first house we lived in when we first moved to Hawaii 15 years ago, in the mornings I was greeted by these gorgeous flowers,
Dale Olive, a UH science professor and part of the Future Flight Hawaii Weird Science Team (which Owen will be going to in June) does an awesome science demonstration, here he is showing how to make and play a Babooze bagpipe,
Okay, does anyone know what a puffette is? We saw this really odd food truck, food trucks are hugely popular here for lunch time grinds but this one for egg puffs just was...odd...
we saw a beautiful rainbow colored cloud,
Halloween, Erica is an angel,
we have such great neighbors, the anticipation of how they are going to dress up is so exciting,
Owen's, Erik's, Evan's, and Erica's pumpkins-they drew and carved themselves.
Next to speak and talk story was Nainoa Thompson who is an Native Hawaiian navigator and director of the Polynesian Voyaging Society. He used ancient Polynesian methods to navigate the Hokule'a and the Hawai'iloa (replicas of Polynesian double hulled voyaging canoes) from Hawaii to other Polynesian island nations. He is a graduate of Punahou as well as a very good friend of Lacy Veach.
A photo of the ko'i or adze (ax) out the window of the space shuttle as it was passing over the Hawaiian Islands. The adze quarry was on Mauna Kea-it was in fact a huge complex of quarries, work sites, shelters, and shrines from 9,000-13,000' elevation. Few places have the kind of hard rock needed for tools. The stone was lashed to a wooden handle and used to hollow out koa trees.
The kids had a workshop on using GPS,
and another on tracking the sun with a homemade device.
I thought this Bird of Paradise looked particularly bird like,
the original school hall built in 1851,
a marker for where the Bingham house stood,
the panini o kapunahou along the lava wall of Punahou was planted in 1836 by Mrs. Bingham. The hylocereus hedge is huge-300 meters long and has these huge spectacular flowers that bloom at night,
we had a hedge of these at the very first house we lived in when we first moved to Hawaii 15 years ago, in the mornings I was greeted by these gorgeous flowers,
Dale Olive, a UH science professor and part of the Future Flight Hawaii Weird Science Team (which Owen will be going to in June) does an awesome science demonstration, here he is showing how to make and play a Babooze bagpipe,
Okay, does anyone know what a puffette is? We saw this really odd food truck, food trucks are hugely popular here for lunch time grinds but this one for egg puffs just was...odd...
we saw a beautiful rainbow colored cloud,
Halloween, Erica is an angel,
we have such great neighbors, the anticipation of how they are going to dress up is so exciting,
Owen's, Erik's, Evan's, and Erica's pumpkins-they drew and carved themselves.
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