Disneyland

So, you've never been to Disneyland? Oh, you have? Well I hadn't. So I went with Jim on October 25, 1997. Of course, if you want to see lots of pictures, then you are in the wrong place. I was having too much fun to waste too much time with a camera, but here's what I did get:

This is part of the Hercules parade. Did you see the movie? This is a picture of Hades. He asked us how we were enjoying our trip to "The Most Miserable Place on Earth".

And this is Jim. Isn't he a cutey? He'll kill me when he finds out that I put this picture on the web. Oh well. Don't expect anything to get updated after I'm dead.

Ooh, look, it's Jim again, and more instant death for me. This time it's back at the Hercules parade. Billions of people with baby strollers. I think Disney even has a special carpool lane for parents with children under 5.

This is the only sanctioned picture of Jim that I am allowed to put on the website, and that sanction is tenuous at best. It is important to know that he doesn't have access to the web (gasp!) so he won't know the others are here, as long as YOU don't tell him.

Hawaii

Let's see, you spend a weekend at Disneyland, what's left to do? I know, Get up at 4 AM the next day for a flight to Hawaii!!! Here are some digital pictures from Hawaii taken between October 27 and November 2, 1997. Check back in a week or two to see all of the pictures from Hawaii, including scenes of Chris and the rent car.

I am pretty sure that the gates to Monster Island are around here somewhere. At any moment I expect to be kidnapped by a native tribe, tied to posts and given to King Kong as some sort of offering.

Oh wait, that only happens to chicks...

This is Sacred Falls on the windward side of Oahu. Tres Cool. About 2 miles off the beaten path, we traversed trecherous mountains pathways on foot, squeezing through narrow rock crevases and crawling through low hanging rain forest. Mud, wild plants, huge rocks, insane scenery, flash flood warnings, all the order for the day.

We stayed in a cheesy resort hotel on The Big Island, but at least we had an ocean view. This is our balcony and this is our ocean.

This is the early edition of the local newspaper. About a billion years early...

OK, if you must know, here's what I can remember. These petroglyphs are carved in lava rock in Hawaii's Volcanoes National Park. This is the part of The Big Island that is still growing, if you catch my drift. If you go there, these are near the place where the molten lava dumps into the ocean and creates huge billows of poisonous steam and gas that completely blanket the entire area. The steam even includes " volcanic glass" that "may cause respiratory damage and death." The original inhabitants carved these petroglyphs on this part of the island to symbolize health and longevity. Proof that the mob mentality has been around for a really long time.

I find petroglyphs fascinating, and it is my website after all.

Here is where particle man meets stick boy, in the conflict of the ages. Does particle man get sticked instead? You figure it out (with apologies to They Might Be Giants).

This is part of the battleship USS Arizona where 1140 men lost their lives as casualties of war.

Go here and understand for yourself what it's about.

Sigh. Another waterfall. You kind of get jaded after a while. Oooh, look, another waterfall. I think this is a close up of Sacred Falls, but I plan to have more pictures of more falls and lava and stuff (1) when the film photos come back and (2) when the new scanner arrives. All in all, it should be a couple of weeks.

One last digital picture.
Me.
HonoLuLu.
Queen's Beach, Waikiki.
October 1997.

OK, I'm done. This is silly. Take me back to that other page.