Since joining the Eyes of Hawaii photography club in Honolulu, several people were asking me about what it was like to live in Ecuador. Being a photography club, I decided the best way to explain it was by creating a slide show / video for them. In looking over our photographic resources from our living […]
Hawaii – Bishop Museum
We visited the Bishop Museum in Honolulu today. For us, the most captivating display was easily the 10 animatronic dinosaurs, shown in the short 45 second video above. Watch to the end to see Evelyn’s reaction… ☺ The Bishop Museum is primarily comprised of three main exhibit buildings, plus a planetarium that was closed due […]
Hawaii – Pearl Harbor
We spent the morning at the Pearl Harbor Memorial today. The upper image shows the most famous building of the memorial, which is a building sitting over the USS Arizona, sunk during the attack on December 7, 1941. We went during neutral tide, and the small piece of rusted stack (lower left) is the only […]
Kerry Jones, the Graduate
It has been four years since we last visited California. This time we came to attend our favorite niece’s graduation from UC Santa Barbara. Kerry graduated with high honors in Chemistry/Biochemistry. She will be starting her Ph.D. program in Organic Chemistry at UC Berkeley, ranked one of the top programs in the world, next month (July 2018). We […]
Cooking With Fire
We have heard about La Yunta since shortly before we went on our Turkey adventure last March. This is a restaurant / tienda / deli that is about a 15 minute drive out of Cuenca, enroute to Loja. Being so far out in the sticks, they have to be creative to get people to come. […]
Wineries and Cooking Class
We wrapped up a four day stay in Mendoza, Argentina today by taking a cooking class at the Familia Zuccardi winery in Maipu. We started by making bread dough, then making stuffed bread after it has risen for awhile. To be honest, our first bread was pretty dense and not very good… 🙁 We also […]
Museum Walk
While in California for Kerry’s graduation (see prior blog post), a couple of friends from Oregon came down to visit. Together, we went to two museums, along with a tour of the Santa Cruz wineries. The first museum we visited was the Computer History Museum in Mountain View (Wikipedia and Yelp both have more info). […]
School’s Out!
Kerry Jones, our favorite niece (OK, our only niece, but still our favorite!) graduated high school today. After this week, she is officially a college student, attending University of California at Santa Barbara. She will be majoring in chemistry in the College of Creative Studies. With fewer than 350 students, this is a very elite […]
Applesauce
Gloria Uyaguari, Evelyn’s favorite Spanish teacher, requires her students to write a diary in Spanish. Evelyn takes private Spanish lessons twice a week at Gloria’s home. Here’s a recent page from Evelyn’s Spanish diary: 29 de Marzo, el sábado Gloria y Adrian nos invitaron a su casa de campo cerca de San Bartolomé a recoger […]
Frient
It is sometimes frustrating when I speak “perfect Spanish” and the other person looks at me like I’ve grown an extra head. I know I said it right… didn’t I? Well, today I had a little lesson on what it probably sounds like to the native speaker I am trying to communicate with. During parts […]