Merry Christmas from Honolulu. Momo meet Kouji, Kouji meet Momo!
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A Visit from Cousins in 2014
Hanging out on the Highline
M/M and the cousins stopped by to visit on their spring break east coast tour. This is one day of trooped around city. Chinatown, Chelsea, Midtown West, NYTimes building and home.
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Uptown and Standing Up
Getting settled uptown in Hamilton Heights Harlem in The Deerfield which is the first time we have lived in a building with a name. Tuesday of our second week Michi caught Momo standing up by her self in the crib. She can also scoot her way all around the edge of the crib.
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More upper West Side Stories
Labor day weekend celebrations at Mike & Yuka’s whose place always possesses the best lighting for Momo photography.
Sunset Park after Dark
Some friends left us with their old Volvo 940 and while driving around looking for places to live we slid by the spot of Zechariah, who is also the owner of the flyest orange 70s Volvo wagon in Brooklyn. We had a nice little cook out.
Last exit to Manhattan
Momo’s motor skills are mildly improving as she enters her last month in the great borough of Brooklyn.
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Governor’s Island
We all went to Governor’s Island to meet Etna and her mom Makiko-san for a Saturday picnic.
Noni!
Clarissa aka Nonni came into town and hung out with us for a week. Fun!
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La Vara & 2 days to EDD
Mariko-san arrived safely from Hawaii last week, during a nice friendly 10°F cold spell and we have been eating, running around and having fun ever since. Michi was finally able to get reservations at La Vara and we met up for a nice dinner and took the train back home together, throwing some pepples at Dane and Chris’s bedroom window on the way.
Christmas 2012
A mild December turned cold towards the end. Visits from Toronto friends as well as local folks. We tried to stuff as much activity in the last couple months as possible since come Momo all our time will be Momo time!
Going back to Honolulu
On our last day in Waimanolo we woke up early to watch the sun rise.
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Waimanalo in color and black and white
A video and more photos of Waimanalo and the surrounding mountains in both color and black and white. Truthfully digital color does the surroundings no justice so I prefer the black and white.
Lanikai
Thursday we visited Lanikai Beach—our marriage beach—to celebrate our 6 months of blissful, government blessed living. I forgot what we did on Wednesday but most likely went to the beach and drank beers and ginger ale. Sorry Michi! We also had dinner with Kouji at the Kailua farmer’s market and I really wish I would have taken pictures of the food.
Hawaiian Islands
We spent the first night in Honolulu at the Ala Moana Hotel and went to Michi’s cousin Kevin’s restaurant with friends from Japan. The next day we went to Waimanalo for the rest of the week. Waimanalo means potable water in Hawaiian and is named as such for the brackish ponds in the area. The old school folks must have come here for their drinking water. The area has super-nice beaches compared to Brooklyn, although, like Brooklyn, it has its share of colorful characters lurking about.
First Day in Hawaii, 2012
Honolulu! Wheww! Almost missed the plane because our driver got lost in JFK maze. We had a quick layover, which may as well have been a bounce at LAX and because of United’s Economy Plus seating, had a comfortable and relaxing ride to the middle of the North Pacific.
A walk at dusk
We took a walk in ugly North Brooklyn with fake siding and sun washed italian cultural center tricolor which looks more irish than red white and green. And finally getting used to our digital camera especially in low light.
Week 22
We finally splurged and bought a digital camera.
