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Surfing

Jun 062010

Today I surfed!

Since moving here I’ve had a number of offers to teach me to surf.Â I have made at least a small effort to accept each offer.Â Yet each time the offer has just fallen through.Â Not this time.

A couple of families from church converged on the beach so I could finally learn.Â After a 5 minute lesson on how to get up we took our boards out to the water.

With a little push from behind I caught my first wave on my first attempt.Â After that I was on my own.Â Over an hour or so I caught 6 or 8 waves.Â Another beginner ran into me once.Â By the end I was absolutely exhausted.Â But it was a lot of fun and with my giant beginners board made it a little easier than expected.Â Or maybe I’m just a natural.

Morning at the Aquarium

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Apr 102010

Wednesday I took Autumn to the Waikiki Aquarium for the first time. Once a year, the museums on O’ahu do a volunteer exchange program that allows their volunteers to visit other museums for free! As an intern at the Bishop Museum I was able to participate in this. During April, on specified days, I can go to other museums for free and take guests at a discounted rate. Clayton and I have seen many places already, but the Aquarium, Missions Houses Museum, and I’olani Palace are still on our to-do list. I decided to take Autumn to the aquarium while Clayton worked, and at the end of the month we will go to the other two museums together.

It was a very small aquarium (we went through the whole place twice in 1 hour at a leisurely rate), but I learned in my Museum Studies class last semester that it has won awards for the quality of their “exhibits”. They take good care of their fish and keep the tanks very clean. I thought their corals were particularly spectacular. Autumn loved pointing and staring at all the fish, other children, and one old Japanese couple.

Random Pictures

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Feb 182010

Here are a few random pictures from the last couple of weeks.

LOST: Bringing People Together

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Feb 062010

Recently our Nashville friend Nate Ragan saw Chris Seay (of Ecclesia Church in Houston) say on Twitter, “Any friends in Hawaii willing to help me with a secret mission related to The Gospel According to LOST?” Since we live in Hawaii, Nate forwarded this message to us. We had no idea what it meant. But Chris is rather famous in the Christian world (we used his Advent Conspiracy study this year at church) so we figured it would at least be fun to contact him and possibly meet him. We ended up driving him and his videographer, Ryan, around the island. We stopped at the Pali Overlook and Kalama Beach where they got some shots. We also ate a delicious lunch at Chao Praya Thai.

The videos were going to promote his book, The Gospel According to LOST, the whole reason they were in town. Why now? The final season of the show LOST was beginning, and the producers aired the world premiere here in Waikiki on January 31. The majority of the movie was filmed here, so it made sense.

We attended the LOST premiere separately, and ended up running into our friend from a board game group that we frequent. He scored a nice spot slightly away from the crowd and allowed us to join him for the viewing! Waikiki was absolutely packed. People were crowded into every little spot of sand or sidewalk. We watched the red carpet for a little while and saw Hurley, Richard, and Frank arrive. It was pretty fun to see it in that setting and get the inside scoop that John Locke…. [censored]…. before the rest of the world knew!

The next night we met up with Chris and Ryan and they treated us to some excellent sushi, which we got at half price for being locals. Definitely not a normal weekend. Just one of the random things that happens to you if you live in Hawaii I guess.