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Birthday biathlon

Dave is on leave this week so I didn’t plan out adventures, we’re just letting them happen as the family chooses day by day what sounds fun. This was a great day - thank you for all the birthday well wishes! Here’s video of our birthday snorkel with a few new fishies identified: 2010-june-birthday-snorkel
And here’s [...]

Diamond Head and . . . Am Idol contestant?

So the lady in the background had a coffee thermos balanced on her head and two balls, one in each hand, as she worked her way up and down the trail and stairs, going backwards for some of it. Unbelievable! She does this every day. She says you just “stay in the core” to keep [...]

Day 12 waiting for space-a flight

Video: 2009-04-muddin-on-mtn-bike
I’m just guessing it’s day 12 - certainly at least that many days scanning the schedule daily. I have driven to Hickam four times over the past two weeks trying to get a better sense of the schedule as far out as I can. Then the flights we shoot for decide not to take [...]

Crazy lizard tail

We were at the Bishop Museum today (Sam’s favorite place to check out volcanoes, extinct stuff, and the planetarium) with our adventure buddies when we stumbled (quite literally) across a lizard without a tail. Then I noticed the tail nearby! Check out the video….
Video: 2008-11-18-lizard-tail.wmv

“Did you bring Sam’s goggles?”

Rainy day run movie
Dave is such a nut - for some inexplicable reason, I wanted to go for a run with the boys (all three of them). It didn’t matter that it was raining out. Really raining. I mean, in Washington I ran throughout the winter (think freezing rain, golf-ball hail storms, 30knot winds…)