{"id":281,"date":"2008-03-07T00:45:51","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T08:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/?p=281"},"modified":"2008-03-07T23:40:09","modified_gmt":"2008-03-08T07:40:09","slug":"hawaii-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/?p=281","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve gotten too lazy to come up with a good name, so it will just be this.<\/p>\n<p>Caleb is starting to hate the car again.&nbsp; We don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s the car itself, or if he&#8217;s not feeling well, or he simple chose to be whiny and cry-y, but he is.&nbsp; It doesn&#8217;t help that we live out in the boonies, where everything is at least 30 minutes away.&nbsp; It&#8217;s hit or miss with this boy now in the car.&nbsp; And it&#8217;s usually a miss.&nbsp; We now have to both sit in the front just so that he won&#8217;t think that we will take him out of the seat.&nbsp; If his crying were only softer, maybe we wouldn&#8217;t mind it so much.&nbsp; But boy, does Caleb have one good set of lungs.&nbsp; Must get it from mommy.<\/p>\n<p>Caleb had his first dip in the pool the other day.&nbsp; And he had his first swim in the ocean yesterday.&nbsp; That&#8217;s his pale chubby father holding him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/img-0570.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"184\" alt=\"IMG_0570\" src=\"http:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/img-0570-thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>On that same day we went swimming, we saw a couple of humpback whales just outside our place.&nbsp; You can see in the distance the whale blowing out air.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/img-0563.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"184\" alt=\"IMG_0563\" src=\"http:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/img-0563-thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the beautiful sunset from our place.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/img-0548.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"184\" alt=\"IMG_0548\" src=\"http:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/img-0548-thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Daddy got a little ambitious on our rest day and wanted to take a short stroll to L&amp;L for a plate lunch.&nbsp; That stroll turned out to be much further when you&#8217;re actually walking.&nbsp; We stopped at McD&#8217;s instead.&nbsp; Great idea.&nbsp; You see this half-eaten apple pie&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/img-0560.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"184\" alt=\"IMG_0560\" src=\"http:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/img-0560-thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s fried.&nbsp; And I thought these things only existed China now.&nbsp; The only other thing I could notice different about McD&#8217;s in Hawaii is that they serve saimin.&nbsp; Saimin?&nbsp; No Taro pie?&nbsp; No pineapple pie?<\/p>\n<p>I can post pictures of my sexy wife in her swimsuit, but I won&#8217;t.&nbsp; That&#8217;s for me and me alone!<\/p>\n<p>We drove out to PCC today.&nbsp; Not Pasadena Community College (Caleb was confused as well since he goes there every week), but Polynesian Cultural Center.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a long drive.&nbsp; For those of you who don&#8217;t know, Hawaii doesn&#8217;t have a lot of roads.&nbsp; There&#8217;s one main road that goes around.&nbsp; You can check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=oahu&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=21.529737,-157.964172&amp;spn=0.567196,0.933838&amp;z=10&amp;iwloc=addr\">map<\/a>.&nbsp; So we&#8217;re staying out in Waianae on the west coast.&nbsp; If you look, North shore isn&#8217;t very far from us.&nbsp; True.&nbsp; We learned in geometry (or maybe even earlier) that the closest distance between two points is a line.&nbsp; If you look even more closely, you can see that there are no roads from the west coast going anywhere but south.&nbsp; So you must head south, get on the 1, then go back up north up the 2 in order to get to the north shore.&nbsp; PCC is over in Laie, which is even further away.&nbsp; So it&#8217;s quite a drive. We had to time it so that 90 minute drive coincided with Caleb&#8217;s nap.&nbsp; Remember earlier how we said he wasn&#8217;t liking the car and it was hit or miss?&nbsp; Today it was a hit, baby!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/img-0602.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"184\" alt=\"IMG_0602\" src=\"http:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/img-0602-thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>(You notice the interstate highways as well?&nbsp; That&#8217;s the first thing I noticed when I saw a map too.&nbsp; Interstate freeways in Hawaii?&nbsp; What other state can I drive to?&nbsp; Oregon?)<\/p>\n<p>Driving along the road to PCC was quite nice.&nbsp; We were driving along the north shore, and during the winters the waves can be nasty.&nbsp; This picture doesn&#8217;t do it justice from what we really saw.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/img-0615.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"184\" alt=\"IMG_0615\" src=\"http:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/img-0615-thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>PCC was fun.&nbsp; It was tiring with a baby though.&nbsp; And the place is run by Mormons, so that&#8217;s not so fun.&nbsp; But it was pretty entertaining.&nbsp; I do enjoy learning about other cultures (although I didn&#8217;t learn that much today).&nbsp; And it&#8217;s fun watching Yvonne participate in things like hula&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/img-0638.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"184\" alt=\"IMG_0638\" src=\"http:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/img-0638-thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>twirling pois&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/img-0650.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"184\" alt=\"IMG_0650\" src=\"http:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/img-0650-thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>And Caleb playing with sticks&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/img-0647.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"184\" alt=\"IMG_0647\" src=\"http:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/img-0647-thumb.jpg\" width=\"139\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Enough of that.&nbsp; It&#8217;s time to sleep.&nbsp; Yvonne isn&#8217;t not feeling well, so pray for all of us!&nbsp; We&#8217;re going to need it if you want to see more of us doing silly things.&nbsp; Or if you only want to watch Caleb playing on the ground in our apartment, then don&#8217;t pray.&nbsp; We would certainly appreciate the prayer though.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/img-0546.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"184\" alt=\"IMG_0546\" src=\"http:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/img-0546-thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve gotten too lazy to come up with a good name, so it will just be this. Caleb is starting to hate the car again.&nbsp; We don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s the car itself, or if he&#8217;s not feeling well, or he simple chose to be whiny and cry-y, but he is.&nbsp; It doesn&#8217;t help that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/?p=281\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hawaii Update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,43,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cry","category-hawaii","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}