Sunday, April 12, 2009
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Year 2009 to date...
SO it's 2009! April 11th! Incredible how fast time flies. Since my adventures in El Salvador, I have made my way back to Maui and I'm not going anywhere for awhile. Atleast not for two months...I had to send my passport in to get renewed. It really sucks that you have to turn your old passport in when you renew. In ten years I somehow avoided losing it, although I did put it through a few spin cycles. Ben and I moved into a new 3 bedroom unit back in December with my friend from UP, Jeff Fanning. Jeff had won a car on the Price is Right last summer, took the money and fled to Maui. Don't believe me, see for yourself on Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khtJ8hN8TC0
Where is Jeff now? Back in Alaska, he just left a few days back for a job opportunity. But, not before he stepped on a sea urchin and had to go into surgery! ouch!
My dad visited back in February and we had one hell of a weekend. I took a few days off and we headed to Hana for a night. We visited Red Sand beach, Waimoku Falls, Wainapanapa, and spent a night at a hotel on the water. For those of you that have never visited Hana, there are very few restuarants. We were planning on just cooking in our room, but when my dad asked the cashier at the grocery store for places to eat, she replied, "My house!" We pulled up to a small house in Hana town and when we knocked on the door, we were presently surprised. For only 16 bucks we each got chicken, a small salad, black beans and rice. If you ask my dad, he would probably say it was the best meal of his life. If you know my dad you wouldn't be surprised. My favorite bumper sticker is at the Hana General store, it reads, "NEW YORK PARIS TOKYO HANA."
We are in our last week of whale season, thank god! At one point I was working three whale watches a day and at the same time I was taking medicine for acute toncilitis, which I probably got from doing whale talks on the boat or maybe even from the whale snot...very high in bacteria!
We should have a new addition to the Cecka family, either today or tomorrow. Another girl. I'm sure my sister will start another blog for her.
One of my best buddys Rachel Kvamme visited last weekend. Definitly worth few paragraphs. Rachel and I have been friends for about 8 years now, I had always considered her as my older sister, as she always gives me this "I'm in trouble look" when I do something dumb, then she says, "Gabriellllll." I love it.
So I decided to take the weekend off, which really isn't that easy to do during our spring break season, but yes, thank you Chris. I picked Rachel up from the airport and we headed down to Kihei to go sailing with my friend Michael in close to 20 mph winds, 30 mph on the gusts. If you knew Michael you would tell us we're crazy, actually most of my friends did say just that. Just the three of us sailing down the coast, what a great adventure. Although we almost didn't even make it out to the boat on the moaring becuase we almost undershot the paddle out in the dingy and the wind was holding us off. For a second there I was thinking, crap Gabe, Rachel's first day and we are going to have to call the coast guard for a rescue. That night we headed to Cool Cats, our local hang out, for a little Oren Masserman on the ukelele.
On friday we headed to Lanai for the night. We put up a hammock on the beach and drank a bottle of wine, while listening to the commedian Mitch Hedberg. After dark my local Lanai friend Dustin gave us a short ride up to the Manele Bay Four Seasons Hotel (http://www.fourseasons.com/manelebay/), where we spent the night....NOT! But we did play a little yahtzee on the hotel's veranda, then challenged a few General Electric big wigs to a game of shuffleboard and jumped in the hot tub, before returning to our luxurious double LL Bean tent.
Busy busy weekend. The next day we went up to Lanai City to eat breakfast at Blue Ginger,
where we saw George Lopez, had Rachel not pointed him out I would have never known,
actually I still have no idea who he is, so I 'googled' him five minutes ago =)
After breakfast we went to the Lanai Pines Sporting Clay range. Really really fun. We were given a half hour instruction (apparently Rachel has a dominant left eye!), then let loose with a golf cart and our rifles strapped to the side. So don't mess with us, although you do have a 30% chance of getting dropped if you cross us in the woods, which is roughly what Rachel figured we averaged. We took a couple of classic rifle pictures, which you can find on the cover of next months issue of, "Fox and Hound" and "American Rifleman."
We then spent the rest of the afternoon playing crochet and lounging around in the Japanese garden at the Koele Lodge, which is also run by the Four Seasons. After joined back up with Captain Brian, we sailed home, showered, then we were off to the Drums of the Pacific Luau at the Hyatt. Breathe... The weekend continued on much like that...but I have to go for a sunset surf right now because Ben keeps bugging me to get of my computer so I'll have to fill you in on the rest a little later. I'll post the pics from the weekend on my next blog...
Aloha
Gabe
Where is Jeff now? Back in Alaska, he just left a few days back for a job opportunity. But, not before he stepped on a sea urchin and had to go into surgery! ouch!
My dad visited back in February and we had one hell of a weekend. I took a few days off and we headed to Hana for a night. We visited Red Sand beach, Waimoku Falls, Wainapanapa, and spent a night at a hotel on the water. For those of you that have never visited Hana, there are very few restuarants. We were planning on just cooking in our room, but when my dad asked the cashier at the grocery store for places to eat, she replied, "My house!" We pulled up to a small house in Hana town and when we knocked on the door, we were presently surprised. For only 16 bucks we each got chicken, a small salad, black beans and rice. If you ask my dad, he would probably say it was the best meal of his life. If you know my dad you wouldn't be surprised. My favorite bumper sticker is at the Hana General store, it reads, "NEW YORK PARIS TOKYO HANA."
We are in our last week of whale season, thank god! At one point I was working three whale watches a day and at the same time I was taking medicine for acute toncilitis, which I probably got from doing whale talks on the boat or maybe even from the whale snot...very high in bacteria!We should have a new addition to the Cecka family, either today or tomorrow. Another girl. I'm sure my sister will start another blog for her.One of my best buddys Rachel Kvamme visited last weekend. Definitly worth few paragraphs. Rachel and I have been friends for about 8 years now, I had always considered her as my older sister, as she always gives me this "I'm in trouble look" when I do something dumb, then she says, "Gabriellllll." I love it.
So I decided to take the weekend off, which really isn't that easy to do during our spring break season, but yes, thank you Chris. I picked Rachel up from the airport and we headed down to Kihei to go sailing with my friend Michael in close to 20 mph winds, 30 mph on the gusts. If you knew Michael you would tell us we're crazy, actually most of my friends did say just that. Just the three of us sailing down the coast, what a great adventure. Although we almost didn't even make it out to the boat on the moaring becuase we almost undershot the paddle out in the dingy and the wind was holding us off. For a second there I was thinking, crap Gabe, Rachel's first day and we are going to have to call the coast guard for a rescue. That night we headed to Cool Cats, our local hang out, for a little Oren Masserman on the ukelele.
On friday we headed to Lanai for the night. We put up a hammock on the beach and drank a bottle of wine, while listening to the commedian Mitch Hedberg. After dark my local Lanai friend Dustin gave us a short ride up to the Manele Bay Four Seasons Hotel (http://www.fourseasons.com/manelebay/), where we spent the night....NOT! But we did play a little yahtzee on the hotel's veranda, then challenged a few General Electric big wigs to a game of shuffleboard and jumped in the hot tub, before returning to our luxurious double LL Bean tent.
Busy busy weekend. The next day we went up to Lanai City to eat breakfast at Blue Ginger,
where we saw George Lopez, had Rachel not pointed him out I would have never known,actually I still have no idea who he is, so I 'googled' him five minutes ago =)
After breakfast we went to the Lanai Pines Sporting Clay range. Really really fun. We were given a half hour instruction (apparently Rachel has a dominant left eye!), then let loose with a golf cart and our rifles strapped to the side. So don't mess with us, although you do have a 30% chance of getting dropped if you cross us in the woods, which is roughly what Rachel figured we averaged. We took a couple of classic rifle pictures, which you can find on the cover of next months issue of, "Fox and Hound" and "American Rifleman."
We then spent the rest of the afternoon playing crochet and lounging around in the Japanese garden at the Koele Lodge, which is also run by the Four Seasons. After joined back up with Captain Brian, we sailed home, showered, then we were off to the Drums of the Pacific Luau at the Hyatt. Breathe... The weekend continued on much like that...but I have to go for a sunset surf right now because Ben keeps bugging me to get of my computer so I'll have to fill you in on the rest a little later. I'll post the pics from the weekend on my next blog...
Aloha
Gabe
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