a wolf angel is not a good angel

All the ice cream places here have tropical flavours instead of the standards. Chocolate, vanilla, strawberry and mango, pineapple, coconut, macadamia instead of mint chip, cookie dough, cherry.

This is a replica of a Buddhist temple in Japan, set in a interdenominational cemetary. You need to pay to get in; I assume that if you’re visiting a grave, you don’t pay. The names of the areas in the cemetary are sort of weird, but I guess it’s good for directions. Uncle Teddy is […]

Yesterday morning, we went off to the USS Arizona. It opens at 7:45. We got there around 8:15. (Do you see a theme in getting places late? I see a theme.)

It’s like Disneyworld! Except free, and no one’s dressed up in costumes.
At 9ish we get to the front of the line; our tour is at […]

I want to read Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell : A Novel.
Mostly I am posting this so that I don’t, a week later, forget the title and author.

Ms. Frizzle posts a puzzle.
One hundred people have been selected as prize winners. Each will get the same amount of money, from $1000 to $100,000. This is how the prize will be distributed. The 100 people are lined up so that each person can see everyone in front of her, but not herself or […]

The plan was to go to Hanauma Bay for snorkeling. Everything we’d read said to get there before 8, or we wouldn’t get in. Everyone we’d spoken to said to get there before 8, or we wouldn’t get in. Let’s get there before 8, I said. Let’s get there before 8, my father said. Too […]

Waikiki Aquarium. My sister, as usual, has the camera; it’s like a pacifier for a cranky 11-year-old.

Throughout the aquarium you can hear little kids crying out “Nemo! Dory!” Nemo, we know, is a clownfish. No one ever calls the clownfish Marlin. Dory is a butterflyfish. Factoid!
Also we see jellyfish. They’re pretty in the blacklight; […]

I got my father to post to a family-vacation-group-blog. He doesn’t quite get the concept; his post (of July 29) was titled “July 28, Allan”.

Waikiki beach at night.

I have a Quicktime video I’d like to edit. Any suggestions that involve not paying? I don’t need to do too much to it.