July 13, 2010
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Day 3 of our Hawaii Vacation took us up to the north shore. It was overcast for a good portion of the morning and we had the occasional shower but we still got plenty of sun. In fact Ross managed to burn the back of his legs since he didn’t put any sun screen on back there.
Ross driving towards the north shore
Ross at Haleiwa beach.
Nicole’s pretty toenails she had done the day before with Janice and Phyllis.
Enjoy a quick nap
Ross enjoying the view.
For lunch we went to Macky’s Shrimp truck in Haleiwa. I don’t think Nicole was overly impressed with it but that may be because their specialty of garlic butter is not Nicole friendly. After lunch we went to grab dessert from Matsumoto’s which was so yummy. Nicole decided to branch out and try two flavors but I stuck with my traditional strawberry.
Ross can’t wait to get into the food
Nicole with her strawberry and pineapple shave ice.
Once we had our shave ice we headed back to the beach to catch a few more hours of sunshine before we headed home. While we were there in the afternoon we were lucky to see a bunch of turtles come all the way up to the edge of the water. Ross even managed to catch a couple of pictures of the turtle.
Turtle!!!!
July 12, 2010
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So what’s the first thing you do when you get home after flying all day to Hawaii? For me the first thing that I did when I got home was to help my father fix the sprinklers on the outside of the house. I don’t know what possessed my dad to want to fix the sprinklers after all this time. On the upside by the time we were done I got a nice shower which helped cool me off since it was so warm that day.
Jake you’re supposed to be plugging the hole. Not spraying water all over the car
Ross has had enough plugging the leak. There she blows…
Replacing the broken sprinkler
July 11, 2010
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Just got back from a great trip back home to Hawaii. We had an awesome time and it was so hard to get back on the plane. Here are some pictures from our first full day back in Hawaii. We went to Ala Moana to have a picnic. Nicole really wanted to do this since the last time we did this was before the wedding and she wasn’t feeling good. In addition to my family Aunty Helena and Ray and Alice and their kids were able to come out to the beach with us.
The beach when we first arrived
Ross manning the grill
Nicole and Phyllis setting up all the food.
Mom, Dad and Aunty Helena watching the ocean.
Jake playing with Ray and Alice’s kids
Ross and John talking story and taking it easy.
Aunty enjoying the beach
Sunset after a full day at the beach. We were there from 10 AM till 8 PM
May 23, 2010
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Last weekend in addition to the air show we had the Taste of Arlington on Sunday. It was ideal for us since it was just across the street from our apartment. We invited Jill, Esto, and Lucia to come down to our place and then head out to the festival. The weather was perfect and since you got 8 tastes for $20 there was tons of food to go around. The weather was perfect so there were tons of people that came out to the taste and towards the end some of the lines were getting kind of unreasonable. Thankfully we had gone early so we were leaving by the time it was wall to wall bodies.
Nicole and Lucia
Nicole, Michelle, and Jill checking out all the options.
Yay for crab cakes. The line was super long but was a good thing we went when we did. Cause the line got out of control later in the day
Now thats a pot of paella
Nicole, Michelle and Esto enjoying some of the food we got.
Ross, Esto and Lucia hanging out in the park after the taste.
May 16, 2010
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On Saturday we went to Andrews AFB Joint Forces Open House. If you’re around DC this time next year I totally recommend going as we had an amazing time. Nicole’s high school friend was up visiting us this weekend so the three of us went to check out the open house. The event is free to the public and the only catch is you can’t drive on to the base you have to park or catch the metro to a designated spot and then they bus everyone to the base.
The open house had all kinds of planes on the ground that you could go up to and check out. They had both old historical planes and current working planes and vehicles. Also throughout the day they had air demonstrations of various military aircraft as well as the army’s demo jumper team (Golden Knights). The highlight/finally of the day was the performance by the Blue Angels which was awesome. I’ve never been to an air show that I can remember so it was a ton of fun. Here are just a couple of pictures of the day (I took 750 pictures).
The historical fly by with a WWII plane, F16 and F22.
Entrance to the show
Nicole and Michelle watching the planes up above.
Michelle in the cockpit
Army’s Golden Knight jump demonstration
Geico Skywritters.
Nicole and Michelle in front of a helicopter
Ross found a gun to play with
Abrams tank.. I want to drive this on the beltway.
Blue Angles diamond group. Look how close they are to one another.
Blue Angles high speed pass.
More Blue Angels
All 6 blue angels.
Nicole and Michelle waiting to get on the bus back to the metro. Only bummer of the day was that it took almost 2 hours to get back to the metro.
Ross and Nicole at the metro stop waiting to go home.
