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More Hawaii Photos

Kelson — Mon, 14 Jul 2003 07:30:03 +0000

OK, the last set of photos were nice scenic pictures. This set is stuff that looked interesting.

First, several from the Foster Botanical Gardens in Honolulu.

The Cannonball Tree. If the sign, “Caution: Watch out for falling cannonballs,” wasn’t enough, the look of this tree covered in coconut-like seeds is certainly intriguing. The sign was washed out in the original photo, so it’s been enhanced a bit here.

Then there’s the Mondo Grass, which is just here because of its name.

Finally, there’s a picture of Katie standing next to a henna tree. (Those of you know know Katie will understand why!)

On the way back to the hotel, we passed these interesting tube-like buildings. I’ll probably look up what they are eventually, but it’s really late now and I just want to finish typing this and sleep.

Now, on to the Valley of the Temples. At the Byodo-In temple (a replica of the one in Japan), we got to see the true meaning of “feeding frenzy” when we watched people feeding koi.

The last photo in this bunch is from the beach at Waimea Bay. The day we drove along the North Shore, most of the beaches had warnings like this up. You’ll notice it didn’t deter people, although at this beach there was a lifeguard who repeated a series of warnings ever 10 minutes. (Stay on this side of the buoys, don’t swim out farther than however many feet, etc.)

Hawaii Photos

Kelson — Sun, 13 Jul 2003 05:58:38 +0000

Yes, it’s been 3 1/2 months, but I finally got around to posting some of the best of the Hawaii photos!

There are worse places to be stuck than Hawaii.

Katie — Mon, 17 Mar 2003 15:55:06 +0000

Well, deadline day is today, the U.N. is in all likelihood not going to budge, and we’re due to leave for Hawaii on Saturday. Makes for a very freako situation. Welcome to my life.

Kelson and I were discussing this last night and decided that if anything happened between now and then, we weren’t getting on the plane. Now that it’s about 95% likely we’ll have to fish or cut bait on that decision, I’m thinking we’re probably no more in danger on the plane than either here or in Hawaii. First off, Hawaii is U.S. soil. There’s not a lot of other soil around, really. Plus, it’s already been bombed once, and as Lilo says, “It’s nice to live on an island with no major cities.” Second, there aren’t many tall buildings in SoCal. Sure, somebody could crash the plane into Disneyland, but what a way to go. Third, and probably most important, security is going to be on red alert from today forward, no matter what happens. It’ll probably mean I have to wear a non-underwire bra at LAX and mail my Swiss Army knife to the hotel, but I’d like to see a terrorist try to get through. (Try. Not actually do.)

And if they shut down air travel when we’re due to come home, well…..see above.