I’ll have a few more trip blogs coming in over the next couple of days, but I also read two books while on vacation. Here’s my review of the first of them:
The Children of Men by P.D. James
My review
rating: 4 of 5 stars
Though it’s been sitting on my bookshelf for years (my wife’s copy), [...]
Super-special three-day update, here. We’re now settled in Maui, so it’s time to catch you guys up on what’s been going on. These entries may in places be somewhat shorter than normal because, frankly, there’s been less stuff going on. That should change tomorrow when we either go snorkeling again, go whale watching, or go [...]
Going to try a new format for the trip blog with this update … individual section headers. The reason I’m doing this is because before I write each of these, I write myself a little outline to remind myself how the day went, and some of the notes are kind of amusing in themselves, and [...]
Ah yes, Wednesday, our fourth full day in Oahu, and we’ve decided to give snorkeling another shot. The weather seems to be reasonably sunny, so hopefully that’ll work out. Charlotte and I head downstairs and snag some eats at the continental breakfast the hotel provides, then come back up and pack up our things. No [...]
I wasn’t able to do an update on tuesday due to HAMS … not the cured pork legs, but rather Huge-Ass Margarita Syndrome. Anyway, tonight’s update covers both Monday the second, and Tuesday the third. I’ll try to keep it to a reasonable length. Note: pics from Monday are up on my Flickr page. Pics [...]
We made it to Hawaii alive and well, if somewhat delerious from lack of sleep. Unfortunately it was rather dark by the time we landed, so there wasn’t too much to see until our cab made it to Waikiki, which was lit up like the surface of the sun. Waikiki seems to be basically a [...]
