1- 6. New Years Eve fireworks
7. Cooking Ozoni
8. Giant pot of auspicious ingredients
9. Blocks of dried mochi
10. Yum
11 & 12. Other auspicious items to be eaten
13 & 14. Sake (otoso) for good luck
15. It is too early for fish. Niko sticks to bagels.
16. Mum
17. Wes, Sophia & Jen ready for the Rose Bowl.
18. Brian
19. Oh Hawaii. I miss you already.
1. Spitting Cave
2. H-3
3 - 7. Laie Point. We saw whales!!
8. Home to Kaimuki
1. Christmas
2. Tons of food
3. Shoyu and Tabasco - the Maggi of Hawaii
4. Koi
5 & 6. View from the top of Diamond Head
1. Saddle Road
2. Driving up Mauna Kea to the summit
3. The top
4 & 5. The sun is going down!
6. Niko and the rental car. It is freezing.
7. The Japanese tourists are the only warm ones up here.
Kayaking at Kealakekua Bay to the Captain Cook Monument.
1&2. Waipi’o Valley
3. Laupahoehoe Point
4-6. Akaka Falls
7. Fish wrap at What’s Shakin’
8. Back on the road to Hilo
9. Hawaii Volcano National Park - Steam Vents
10. Night view of volcanic action
11. Flash light trails from other visitors
1: driving out of kona
2: down a small dirt road with a handmade paper sign reading “whales.” At the end of the road, two people from Ireland reading library books on lawn chairs and looking for whales.
3. the view out of that whale road
4. the sun starts going down
5. and the light show starts
6. even palm trees are swayed by the sweet pastels
7. the moon comes out for the night
9. back on the road towards dinner
1-3: manoa falls
4: post hike lunch
5-7: sunset in hawaii never gets old
just got back last night. wish i were still there…
