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Just flew back from Hawaii, and boy are my arms tired.
Sunday morning, G and I took a hike to the top of the Wiliwilinui Ridge Trail (say that five times fast), which gives a nice view of the valley, Waikiki, and Diamond Head. It also gives a view of the other side of the island, but things were a bit foggy up top. At the end, there's a rope climb that's steeper than the end of Half Dome, and it gets a bit muddy up there, too, i.e. you really need to use the rope to reach the top. Thus the tired arms.
Here at the beginning of all things
Diamond Head peeking out
The valley, with Gina's ridge on the right
Approaching the steep peak
G pulling herself to the top
I would have raised my arms in triumph if they weren't so tired
Here at the end of all things
During my trip, we also did some tailgating at the Hawaii/Idaho game, which the good guys won 68-10. In the four Stanford games I've been to this year, we've scored 60 points combined (and 83 total for the season), and in one warm and breezy evening at Aloha Stadium, the home team scored 68. It was nice rooting for the winning side for once.
Gina took me to a new (for me) Japanese restaurant one night, though mostly I stuck with old standbys Curry House and Zippy's. We also watched The Prestige, which is a trippy movie about rival magicians that unexpectedly goes sci-fi at the end. Like The Departed, I really enjoyed the build up but didn't like the ending.
An unexpected distraction on the trip was the Nintendo DS game Big Brain Academy, which I bought for Gina to serve as an occasional quick study break. It has a bunch of mini puzzle games that fall into five categories, like Compute and Memorize and Analyze, and you can do the test mode that runs you through all five categories and calculates the weight of your brain based on the speed and accuracy of your results. Each test takes about five minutes, so it's not supposed to be time-consuming, but with brain weight superiority on the line, we got sucked into the competition. So far, Gina has proven to be the bigger brain, by 7 grams (1881 to 1874), but it's been only a couple of days, so our brains will surely grow in the days to come. Now I just need to get a DS of my own.
I'm back at work now, but it's Halloween, so I've been able to ease back into things with an easy day. Lots of cool costumes, but nothing that rivals the genius of Gerald.
God it's cold out here.
Sunday morning, G and I took a hike to the top of the Wiliwilinui Ridge Trail (say that five times fast), which gives a nice view of the valley, Waikiki, and Diamond Head. It also gives a view of the other side of the island, but things were a bit foggy up top. At the end, there's a rope climb that's steeper than the end of Half Dome, and it gets a bit muddy up there, too, i.e. you really need to use the rope to reach the top. Thus the tired arms.
Here at the beginning of all things
Diamond Head peeking out
The valley, with Gina's ridge on the right
Approaching the steep peak
G pulling herself to the top
I would have raised my arms in triumph if they weren't so tired
Here at the end of all things
During my trip, we also did some tailgating at the Hawaii/Idaho game, which the good guys won 68-10. In the four Stanford games I've been to this year, we've scored 60 points combined (and 83 total for the season), and in one warm and breezy evening at Aloha Stadium, the home team scored 68. It was nice rooting for the winning side for once.
Gina took me to a new (for me) Japanese restaurant one night, though mostly I stuck with old standbys Curry House and Zippy's. We also watched The Prestige, which is a trippy movie about rival magicians that unexpectedly goes sci-fi at the end. Like The Departed, I really enjoyed the build up but didn't like the ending.
An unexpected distraction on the trip was the Nintendo DS game Big Brain Academy, which I bought for Gina to serve as an occasional quick study break. It has a bunch of mini puzzle games that fall into five categories, like Compute and Memorize and Analyze, and you can do the test mode that runs you through all five categories and calculates the weight of your brain based on the speed and accuracy of your results. Each test takes about five minutes, so it's not supposed to be time-consuming, but with brain weight superiority on the line, we got sucked into the competition. So far, Gina has proven to be the bigger brain, by 7 grams (1881 to 1874), but it's been only a couple of days, so our brains will surely grow in the days to come. Now I just need to get a DS of my own. I'm back at work now, but it's Halloween, so I've been able to ease back into things with an easy day. Lots of cool costumes, but nothing that rivals the genius of Gerald.
God it's cold out here.
posted by Chang Kim at Tuesday, October 31, 2006
14 Comments:
gina you should've cut the rope on chang at the top to replicate the scene in the princess bride with the man in black
You should see how many comments in a row you can post that incorporate a Princess Bride reference.
as you wish
Inconceivable.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Am I going mad, or did the word think escape your lips?
Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.
Now I gotta go home and check my Brain Age weight.
Battle on.
...and get a DS.
Yes, get a DS
Mario Kart WiFi is sweet even though I suck.
i think the princess bride quote have been broken so now do i need to restart it or are we done? hehe..is the mini-mario game for DS like a lemmings thing? how long was that total hike?
The hike was about 3 hours. It's a tough haul getting to the top, but very worthwhile. I'm not saying I'd like to build a summer home there, but the trees are actually quite lovely.
Wow... I need to watch that movie again.
No you don't Gina :) I should get a DS too, I can't wait to play that Holly Homemaker game.
Andrew, you should try Cooking Mama.
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