Month: March 2006

  • Alright, just a quick update today. First someone asked why it was called “Divorce Highway”. It because it is a very difficult, and very long drive. Inevitably, someone gets cranky which could lead to arguments. They even sell “I Survived the Road to Hana” T-Shirts all over the place (my mom and dad bought one for themselves). Dad really had a tough time as he hates to be in the car even to go down to the corner store, imagine that for ohhh about six hours… , that’s fun!

     

    Today we are headed for the beach. Don’t have any other specific plans, we will play it by ear. I know I have a ton of school work to do. Hope I can crank it out in the next couple of days.

     

    Mom and I went shopping several times in the last couple days. Got some needed stuff, but mostly, just enjoyed hanging out together. Most the time we were by ourselves. We when had the kids we had to fend off constant attacks to buy Starbucks and Jamba.

     

    My kids are addicted. One to Jamba, one to Starbucks. How on earth did I let this happen?? I didn’t even see the warning signs:

          the constant drooling when passing a center with Starbucks or Jamba,

          the sudden loss of spendable income,

          the dazed expression when they manage to convince someone to take them to get their “fix”,

          the build up of gourmet coffee and smoothie cups in the trash…..

     

    I feel very neglectful.

     

    Ok, now here’s a quiz I stole from ThisIsBullDookie:

     









    All-Around Smart

    You are all-around smart. Essentially, that means that you are a good combination of your own knowledge and experience, along with having learned through instruction – and you are equally as good with theoretical things as you are with real-world, applied things. You have a well-rounded brain.

    40% applied intelligence
    0% learned intelligence









    Take this quiz at QuizGalaxy.com

  • We Survived The Road To Hana

    Well…. soo much to do and so little time! Or something along that line! Since my last entry we have


    Hiked around a lavender farm and had lavender tea and scones


    Snorkeled at Kamoale III — Dad had a hard time at first but finally got comfortable with the fins and snorkel and was rewarded by the sighting of a nice big sting ray! (I saw it too! Even though I didn’t see our mandatory turtle, I figure sting ray trumps turtle!)


    And then… there was the road to Hana. Some people have affectionately named it… Divorce Highway. 37 miles one way of twisting turn highway through lush tropical forest with waterfalls you can see from the road. You drive through ferns, rainbow Eucalyptus trees, and bamboo forests. We hiked to the 7 Sacred Pools (really the Ohe’o pools), and dad, hubby and daughters hiked up to the Waimanlo falls, through mud, muck and bamboo forests. I do have pics…  I’ll post them later. The trip was a long one, we left by 8:00 am and got home about 6;00 pm. We were all ready to get out of the car! It had rained all day, which was something of a disappoint. It also caused some dangerous conditions, which meant no swimming in the pools due to possible flash flooding . Other conditions it cause was the possible rock slides and on the way home we saw a car that had been crushed by a huge boulder. Not good. Luckily it appeared as no one was injured, they just needed a replacement vehicle!


    SCUBA/snorkeled Ulua beach — dad had his introductory dive and hubby and the girls went on a one tank dive. They saw amazing things — including a snowflake eel and 3 turtles, all kinds of stuff. They rented an underwater camera so guess what?? I have pictures!! I am ready to get the underwater housing for Silver_Fangz camera — then watch out! Even though I can’t dive, I can photograph!


    I haven’t had much time on the computer — or with my school books, so I will catch up later. My folks head out on Wednesday evening so I will be around after I catch up with my school work. I have an IEP, PLEP and Education Eval to write, along with 10-15 page paper that is accompanied by a 10 slide minimum PowerPoint presentation. Then I have another 10 page paper due the following week, not to mention my regular weekly assignments. I don’t even want to think about it! YUCK!! And I already registered for my next semester classes. Hopefully they will be a little easier. The Assessment of Exceptional Children class has been tough…. makes my brain hurt. I don’t like my brain to hurt!


    ok, I’m off — today is probably just a beach day, we are considering another Whale Watch, and going up to Haleakala and watching the sunset, before we will do some hiking in the crater. Sounds busy huh? Not much of change!


    A hui ho!