Kickball

Anna

Spa Shoot

Carpenter's Union Fishing Tournament

Paddle Shoot

Ahi Fever

Clean Sweep

The Last Lantern

We arrived at the lantern festival 15 till 8pm. The festival was supposed to be between 6-8. As we walked to Ala Moana beach park we were flooded by a sea of people going in the opposite direction. We were like salmon swimming up current. We got to the beach where people had put their lanterns in the water. I took off my TOMS and waded in the water attempting to take a few pictures of the lanterns in the distance being collected by the outrigger canoes. We would so be fired if we were supposed to be shooting the event. All of a sudden out of the darkness came a Kahu led by a man in an aloha shirt with a flashlight. "Get the picture!" My friend said. As I quickly adjusted my shutter speed I got the shot of the last lanterns being put in the water and a Kahu saying goodbye.

Fresh Kumu

St Paddy's Day

A spin on traditional Irish food

Soda Bread

Mini Cabbages

Sausage 

Irish Cheese

The Lovely Liza

Sunday, March 6 2011 Mokuleia TT 13 miles, 34:15min, 19.8mph. 

Not bad for forgetting my shoes and wearing Toms...

Thank God Tony gave me an aero helmet :)

Tantalus in the dark

The hills dark and cold

I ride up before the dawn

My bed so beautiful

Tsunami #2. It's late. It's early. 3:28am the wave should have been here half an hour ago. Made pancakes for the roommates and their friends. There's waves of freaking out and crying. I'm tired. I just want to go to sleep and not work tomorrow. I think this just goes to show us a couple things- how everything we know can be gone in just seconds and it shows us what's really important...

"The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position." -Leo Buscaglia

An "uneventful" night turns out to be quite refreshing as I finally get to cook with a little music on (Kings of Convenience). At first the lack of company gets to me but I actually got to read a book, write and reflect a little. Organic Beef-broccoli somehow turns out spectacular and I know I need all the good calories I can get. A little meditation on a bike ride around diamond head finished it off. I tend to fall asleep if I just sit, pray and think but on a bike it's a different story. With the stars shining, street lights buzzing and cool wind blowing through my hair there's nothing better.

Mo

Feeling guilty about the things we didn't know is the same as regretting your growth.

Cayenne

There is something about being in the ocean

Cold, clear, pristine

Littered with hidden treasures

If there was such a thing as an afterlife, a reincarnation, 

I think I'd live in the sea, I'd be-

Something that could breath in the fathoms below

Something that could see everything in the depths crystal clear

Something fast of course to satisfy my need for speed

In the old days people seemed to believe in mythological creatures

I'm not sure if it was because they actually existed and then the rise of man led to extinction or-

If they existed because of misunderstandings and imagination

Although there is no empirical proof of these creatures

If in a past life they really existed, maybe I was born of the water

Cromwells