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New Art

So recently I've become interested in getting in to graphic art. So I spent hours on the computer, got a lot of help from Ryan, and started my first real attempt. Yeah, yeah, I know it looks like an Andy Warhol rip-off, but isn't all art imitation of some sort?

It's a boy!!!

So we found out just before we left for Hawaii that we're having a boy.

"So, I got that going for me."

BTW...

We went to Hawaii... I don't know if you read that up there...

Here are some pics...

We stayed in O'ahu on Waikiki Beach.
This is a pic of Diamondhead.



So here we are taking a break to enjoy some Hawiian shave ice. That's right "shave" not "shaved." You hauli.... "He's so hauli he don't even know he's hauli."



This one speaks for itself.



Since Court is preggers, really preggers, we couldn't do all the crazy things, so instead we went to the Polynesian Cultural Center. It is basically like Epcot in Orlando. There are 7 "islands" you can visit: Hawai'i, Tonga, Samoa, Aetearoa (New Zealand), Fiji, Tahiti, and Marquesas. You can take a canoe to each one, and while there you can learn about the people and history. This is a view from the canoe.



Click Here to visit their website.

About half way through the day they had a parade of canoes on this river, each one had it's own island dancers. I have that on video, it was cool. As soon as I get my new dvd burner I can burn all of this on a disc you can watch at home. Feel free to paypal me the money now....

Our favorite "islands" were Samoa and Aetearoa. In Samoa, they taught us how to light a fire with sticks and coconut husks, milk a coconut, and climb a coconut tree. In Aetearoa they had a demonstration of the dances and war chants of the Maori people.

This is us outside of Tahiti.



After learning all that we could about the indigenous peoples of Polynesia... We had a wicked awesome luau, complete with pig the in ground and poi. Again, BTW... Thcenter is run by the students of BYU. It is some mormon sister college, and most of the students at this college work at the center. They are all pacific islanders, but because they are mormon, the luau only had decaf coke, coffee, and tea. I know they didn't have that at real luaus, but still... crazy mormons...

Then we watched a dinner show...



The third day we spent on the beach. I even got a couple of shots of some surfers. Too bad I don't have a waterproof case...


*I photoshopped the color