I’m back in Texas … Rags is back at our apartment … I’m back at work … and I’m back to being swamped. 🙂 Yes, friends, dreamy vacation time is over, and now it’s back to reality. I know I didn’t tell you all abundant stories about my trip, but the pictures really tell the …

Today, Dalis took me to see the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor. What I didn’t ever fully understand is that the memorial is constructed above the wreckage of the battleship, which is clearly visible in the shallow waters of the harbor. It is haunting to look at the massive wall of names of those …

Ma Norell took this one, actually. I have several more pretty ocean/sky/mountain pictures at my Yahoo photo album (“day 1 hawaii” and “day 2 hawaii”).

In the wintertime, the North Shore is a haven for surfers. Right now, though, the waves are pretty tame (or lame). At any rate, here I am at the North Shore. Whee!

… model homes, that is. We looked at many variations of the homes available at Ocean Pointe yesterday, and I had “the fam” pose on the staircase at one of the nicer ones.

I had no idea pineapples were *plants*, not trees. We went to the Dole Plantation yesterday, though, and all my misconceptions were shattered. Isn’t this so cool?

These pictures, and others to come, are available at my Yahoo pictures page. FYI. I love this sunset picture. Don’t you wish you were here?

My sunset pictures turned out great (I have this thing for sunset pictures), but here’s one I didn’t take — Dalis was driving again.

Dalis used to take pictures for JC Penney Portrait Studio. That’s why the pictures she took of me turned out so well. Like this one.

Before the luau, Dalis took this picture of me. I’m rather pleased with it — and my “Aloha wear.”