Photos and fun from Seattle, WA
I have been slow in getting the video up online from our recent trip to Hawaii. But, here are two clips that I put onto YouTube recently.
This is Jamie and I at the sliding sands trail at Haleaka. It was a fun hike going down, but not so much on the way back up.
This is Jamie’s tour of the Westin Maui Resort. We stayed here on the first part of our trip.
Enjoy the videos, more will be coming in the future… hopefully.
I finally finished getting all of the photos from our recent trip to Hawaii online. You can see all of the pictures that Jamie and I took by looking at the Flickr tag ryjamHI08. You can see all of the photos that I took in my Hawaii Vacation collection.
The next part is to go over the video that we took and put some of that online too. Hopefully I can get that done before the month is over.
Starting this past Monday on PBS I happened to stumble upon a documentary titled “Carrier” (website). This show is a ten part series that was airing two hour long segments each night this week. For some reason this show captured my attention right away and I have now seen the entire series. I think, for me, the part that fasciniates me is how they live their lives on the carrier while they are out at sea. There are the typical story lines that you hear when it comes to military families (e.g., baby born out to sea, the government owns me, I miss my family), but it was really interesting to see how these sailors reacted throughout the series when it came to these themes in their lives.
The ten hour series covers the entire six month deployment of the USS Nimitz from back in 2005. The series did a good job of mixing what life is like every day on the carrier with the life changing experience it gives the sailors. Some of those experiences are extremely beneficial to some sailors who may have otherwise gotten themselves into trouble back home, while others are more heart wrenching, like the birth of a new child or even missing their children who they have to leave back home.
Overall, the series was a great watch, it is in HD (which I love, because I’m an HD junkie), and it provided a view into the lives of those on the carrier like I’ve never seen in another show before. If you have the chance and you missed it on PBS, all of the episodes are available online at pbs.org.
Jamie Blue » Originally uploaded by rprins.
The second day’s worth of Hawaii photos are now online. These are from Friday, April 11th. On this day we spent some time on the beach, went to the Feast at Lele, and I asked Jamie to marry me. Unfortunately there aren’t any photos of the proposal, but we have some “fake” ones coming up that we took on Wakiki Beach on our last night. You can check out the full set here.
CRW_9931 » Originally uploaded by rprins.
I finally got to putting the first day’s worth of photos online. I think that I will need to put them up a day at a time in order to get them all done. It is too big of a task to do all in one big batch. I’ll try to do a day every night this week, but we’ll see if I can stick to it. In the meantime, check out the first day’s set. It is of our trip down the Hana Highway.
Last night, with the ladies out at Jessica’s bachelorette party, we had the guys over to play some poker, Super Smash Brothers, and Guitar Hero. There were five of us playing in the $10 rebuy with $10 add-on tournament. Everyone added on after the third round after I threw in an additional $10 for 1,000 more in chips. Doing so grew the pot to $100 with $65 going to 1st place and $35 going to second. It came down to Aaron and I and you can watch the video below to see how the last hand turned out.
Needless to say, I lost. I was really short stakced after Aaron took all of Sean’s chips and I has basically one hand left and I was on a flush draw, Jack high. Aaron ended up taking the pot with a baby pair after my draw was busted. Good game all around.
For our player of the year points, Aaron is still out in first place in the standings after this game. You can see the entire rankings right here. This for every game that has been held in 2008 to date.
Figured it was time to go ahead and update the ‘ol blog. Now we’re running on WordPress 2.5. In doing so, I realize what a mess I’ve created for myself. Maybe when I get some time I’ll clean up some of the nasties lying behind the scenes.
