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We’re back from Hawaii. A good time was had by all. Since I know some of you all read in Friends mode, I am posting this now to let you know, since my back-dated journal entries will otherwise never register in the most recent posts of your respective friends. (Did that make […]

Why did I leave?Oh, right, to take care of the cat. She’s very glad to see us.
Apparently so is the Ohio weather. We hear it hasn’t snowed since Christmas. And it’s just started up since we’ve been headed home. Obviously expecting us.
We flew all night to get to Chicago. Liz […]

It was just before sunrise when we docked in Honolulu. We had a nice breakfast with Anne and my parents, with plenty of hugs afterward, since it was the last time that all five of us would be in the same place for the foreseeable future.
We split up and headed back to our cabins […]

We arrived at the port of Nawiliwili, Kauai, at sunrise, and it was glorious. I am really going to miss the sunrises here when I get back to cold, nasty Ohio.
The Star was running about half an hour late, so we had to hurry off of the ship in order to get to our […]

Liz finally broke me today on our downhill bike tour.
Grandma would have wanted us to go out and face our respective days with vigor, so we went ahead with our tours.
The tour bus took us up to the summit of Haleakala, the 10,000 foot tall volcano that dominates Maui. I was squished into the […]

As we approach Maui this morning, the sea is eerily calm. It is like we are sailing over a smooth sheet of glass. All the fight seems to have gone out of the ocean.
I watched whales for awhile with my father, then we went down below to find Liz and my mother. […]

Liz is doing better; we slapped one of Mom’s motion-sickness patches on her last night, and it seems to be doing the trick now. We are still sloshing about more than I would like, but it’s nowhere as violent as last night. It turns out we spent a good deal of time fighting […]

The seas tonight are really, really rough.Liz stayed back in our stateroom, upending the contents of her stomach into the head, while I joined my parents and my mother in law for a thoroughly unsatisfying dinner at Ginza, the specialty Japanese restaurant aboard the Star. The service was slow, and pretty much vanished once […]

This morning we arrive at Fanning Island, an atoll about 200 miles north of the equator. The skies are alternately cloudy and clear, but the hot sun beats down on us either way.
We go ashore by tender, which means that we jam ourselves into the aquatic equivalent of a clown car, and bounce along […]

For the second time in as many days, it is New Year’s Eve.This is because we actually crossed the international date line sometime yesterday, making last night technically New Year’s Eve. The Star stays on Honolulu time, though, so tonight is also New Year’s Eve. I think it’s Tuesday, somewhere, but I can’t […]