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Polihale for the 4th

July 19th, 2010

For the 4th of July my extended family headed down to Polihale to camp for the weekend. Polihale is at the end of the road on the west side of the islands and is a beautiful beach that is mostly dominated by locals since rental car companies don’t allow their cars to go out there. It was a ton of fun to spend two days down at the beach with most of my family showing up at one point or another. Nicole did a good job roughing it at the beach and I think some of my family were impressed with Nicole for handling it so well. The weather was perfect while we were down there as the waves stayed pretty mild so the kids could stay in the water all day long. Plus there was a nice breeze during the day so it didn’t get too hot. Surprisingly for all the time we were out on the beach we managed to not get burned.

Yes this is how we camp at the beach. With cots and air mattresses

Our camp site at night time.

Jake and his boogie board

Dad and Phyllis enjoying the beach from the shade.

Chad’s boat. One of the multiple boats that were there that we used.

Karen, Seth, and Keoni checking out stuff caught along the shore.

Nicole and Ross at the end of the beach.

Nicole, Cheryl, and Rhonda

Uncle Dwight and Aunty Audrey with their newest grandson.

Fireworks for the 4th

Ross caught asleep….

Goats that came down the mountain right behind our campsite in the morning.

Seth playing with some crabs

Nicole and Ross at Polihale as we were leaving.

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Tags: beach Family fun hawaii vacation

Holo Holo

July 18th, 2010

Friday evening we flew up to Kauai with my dad and family to spend the fourth of July weekend with the camara side. Saturday morning Aunty Audrey and Uncle Dwight had arranged for Nicole and I to take a tour boat ride to see the Na Pali Coast. Now I’ve never been out that side before so I was really excited to be going. The tour was with Holo Holo tours because my uncle knows the people who run the place. The tour was a ton of fun and I really enjoyed myself. Nicole had a pretty good time but the sea’s were a little rough so she spent about half the cruise trying not to get sick. Luckily she managed to not get sick on the whole ride. Unfortunately it was kinda drizzly though out the ride so we weren’t able to get too many good pictures.

Meet our crew

Ross enjoying the ocean air and view.

Dolphins!! There was a whole lot of them swimming around the boat.

Nicole checking out the scenery while trying not to get sick.

Na Pali Coast

Ross after the snorkel.

Nicole at the snorkel spot. It felt good to get in the water.

Bye Bye Na Pali Coast

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Andrews Joint Forces Open House

May 16th, 2010

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.

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New York City

April 23rd, 2010

Last weekend we went to New York City to visit Sean. Some highlights of the trip

Meeting Wally
Food
Being bumped from our hotel because of the volcano and being put at the helmsley carlton house on Madison Ave.
Waking up early on sunday and walking through central park at taking some awesome pictures
Full English breakfast at this tea house
Riding the Bolt bus there and the mega bus home

Sean getting wally to show off

Sean and Wally. One of the few decent pics of Sean

Out walking around nyc

What did you see Wally?

Nicole walking wally

Lunch time at a hole in the wall Cambodian sandwich place. Ross and Sean

NYC at night

The living room of our Helmsley Carlton in 1 br suite.

The bedroom

The apple store

Ross in Central Park

Nicole under this pretty pink tree we found with the NYC skyline

Nicole in the subway

Nicole and Sean at High Line Park

Times Square

Ross playing tourist

Mega Bus line for the ride home to DC

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Christmas Part 2

January 9th, 2010

Christmas day morning we spent with Phil until Nicole’s mother came home from her parents and then we headed over there. We got a lazy start to the day and didn’t open gifts until 10AM. We had a good time opening all the gifts we had gotten from people. Afterwards we had a great breakfast casserole that Grandma Crnkovich had sent home with Phil the weekend before.

Nicole on christmas morning.

Nicole’s mom made it back to Cincinnati around 3 in the afternoon and it was a good thing she hadn’t come home any sooner since we had finally just gotten showered and cleaned up just as she called. So we packed up all our stuff and said goodbye to Phil and headed over to Jean’s place. At Jean’s place we hung out for a little bit and then exchanged gifts with her. I think Jean really liked the wedding album that Nicole had made and finally given to her. For dinner we did snow crab legs because it was fast and easy to do since Jean wasn’t home for most of the day. After dinner we went downstairs and setup the Wii and tried playing some of the new games that Nicole got for christmas. Unfortunately the Mario Party 8 that I had gotten for nicole didn’t work which was a bit of a bummer for the day.

Ross opening one of the shirts he received from jean.

Jean and Nicole looking at the wedding album.

Our snow crab dinner. So yummy.

Saturday was another relaxing day. We started of the day by getting a little bit of shopping done. Surprisingly it wasn’t really that crazy while we were out shopping but that could have been because we were out early and were home by 2PM. After a nap and some video game playing and hanging out we went out to dinner. Jean wanted to do a special dinner for us and instead of cooking we convinced her to take us to Montgomery Inn since I had never been there. This place is known for their ribs and is a favorite of Sean’s. Unfortunately because they are so good and popular they only take reservations for 5PM and anytime after that you just have to show up and wait. We ended up just getting reservations and going to dinner early. The place was enormous and had a ton of different rooms where middle to small functions could be held. It was also kinda interesting since as you moved through the place the atmosphere changed from really casual bar dinning to a more formal dining depending on which room you were in. I of course got the ribs since thats all I had heard about from the place. I thought they were quite good and better than anything I could get here in DC but they weren’t no dinosaur bbq ribs.

Nicole and Ross at Montgomery Inn

Jean at Montgomery Inn.

The next day was the end of our trip and after a quick breakfast with Jean we headed out. Since we got a good start in the morning we made it back to DC just after it got dark which left us with plenty of time to unwind and to go to the grocery store to get food.