this video is WAY too cute. hannah & topher somehow discovered that they could make each other laugh by slamming themselves onto the ground. then they started adding "aiyo!" as they body-slammed themselves.
btw, thanks to everyone for celebrating my bday with me. though the semi-surprise (i thought i was having dinner with just some of the girls) was semi-ruined:
12:14 PM me: hm
i'll bring them on art's hard drive on thurs
i have his external hd
12:15 PM unnamed guy: or i can get it from you on fri
12:16 PM me: fri?
12:16 PM unnamed guy: ugh sorry i meant thurs
i'm not thinking
that's what you just said huh?
yeah bring them on thurs
i'll bring my computer on thurs
and get it from art's drive
hahahaha nice attempt at a cover-up.
but regardless, i had a blast, and was impressed at the number of people who willingly got their faces painted!
Sunday, March 09, 2008
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
aloha!
sooo sad to be back from hawaii. :( lots to share, but the big island was definitely very different from oahu. more desolate, not as touristy, and lots and lots of lava/empty land. but it was a total blast and i have come home darker than i've been probably since the summer i spent in china in college.
we took a TON of pics, which are/will all be uploaded on my smugmug. other ppl are still uploading them, but mine are up. check pictures out here:
big island '08 pics
who would have thunk in hawaii. but yes, it was freaking cold. colder than tahoe. cold enough for us to run back into the car, without bothering to wait for people to climb into the very back row (the third row), five of us just crammed into the middle seat.
but the freaking, freezing, frostbite cold was worth it for pics like these. i think that was the most awesome sunset i've ever witnessed. at 14,000 ft above sea level. and yes, that's a layer of clouds that we're above.
my other favorite part of the big island was the volcanoes & lava tubes. lava tubes were these pitch black cave/tubes. you had to bring your own flashlights and headlamps to make your way thorugh it. we also climbed down to a huge lava crater. it was so incredible - so vast.
ok, there are tons of stories, and tons of highlights (we literally hit at least one beach every day we were there), but it would take me forever to blog them. so just ask me or check out our pics.
one thing, though - i've never seen so much blood spilled from one group vacation, ever. we managed to accumulate: gashes on the foot, between the toes, chest, elbows, knees, calves, arms, hands, an almost-broken nose, and total body sunburns. we went through 5 boxes of band-aids. i think i definitely won the casualty award, though, with: 1) twisted right ankle (swollen still, i fell into a ditch at night) - along with that twisted ankle, i scraped the skin off part of my pinkie toe and the entire right side of my right calf and the top of my foot, also from falling in that ditch. 2) cuts, scrapes, and gashes on my right knee and left thigh from getting slammed into coral reef by one of the waves while snorkeling, 3) rubbing those same cuts, scrapes, and gashes totally raw from surfing (kept rubbing the injuries against the surf board and waterproof bandaids came off), 4) slice on my thumb from climbing volcanoes, and 5) the worst sunburn i've ever gotten on my entire backside from surfing. it hurt to sit, and it was so bad, when i showed jean, she literally fell on the floor laughing. yes, i am pretty beat up.
but it was all worth it! had the time of my life, and praise the Lord, all 11 of us are still friends. :)
we took a TON of pics, which are/will all be uploaded on my smugmug. other ppl are still uploading them, but mine are up. check pictures out here:
big island '08 pics
who would have thunk in hawaii. but yes, it was freaking cold. colder than tahoe. cold enough for us to run back into the car, without bothering to wait for people to climb into the very back row (the third row), five of us just crammed into the middle seat.
but the freaking, freezing, frostbite cold was worth it for pics like these. i think that was the most awesome sunset i've ever witnessed. at 14,000 ft above sea level. and yes, that's a layer of clouds that we're above.
my other favorite part of the big island was the volcanoes & lava tubes. lava tubes were these pitch black cave/tubes. you had to bring your own flashlights and headlamps to make your way thorugh it. we also climbed down to a huge lava crater. it was so incredible - so vast.
ok, there are tons of stories, and tons of highlights (we literally hit at least one beach every day we were there), but it would take me forever to blog them. so just ask me or check out our pics.
one thing, though - i've never seen so much blood spilled from one group vacation, ever. we managed to accumulate: gashes on the foot, between the toes, chest, elbows, knees, calves, arms, hands, an almost-broken nose, and total body sunburns. we went through 5 boxes of band-aids. i think i definitely won the casualty award, though, with: 1) twisted right ankle (swollen still, i fell into a ditch at night) - along with that twisted ankle, i scraped the skin off part of my pinkie toe and the entire right side of my right calf and the top of my foot, also from falling in that ditch. 2) cuts, scrapes, and gashes on my right knee and left thigh from getting slammed into coral reef by one of the waves while snorkeling, 3) rubbing those same cuts, scrapes, and gashes totally raw from surfing (kept rubbing the injuries against the surf board and waterproof bandaids came off), 4) slice on my thumb from climbing volcanoes, and 5) the worst sunburn i've ever gotten on my entire backside from surfing. it hurt to sit, and it was so bad, when i showed jean, she literally fell on the floor laughing. yes, i am pretty beat up.
but it was all worth it! had the time of my life, and praise the Lord, all 11 of us are still friends. :)