A full day with the kids, before I travel for 2 weeks

Today, I took a day off from work to spend a little more time with the kids before I leave on a business trip for 2 weeks. It started with breakfast at Amanda's school where they make fresh bread every morning. It was really good and Jake loved having bk with Amanda. She is such a good role model
Then Jake and I headed over to the Navy bx store for a little shopping and Jake wanted his picture taken by the waterfall

Then, it was back to pick up Amanda and take them to the Hickam Officer's club for lunch (stir-fry). Now this was an incredible lunch as you can see there was only one more person having lunch when we got there (several more showed up later). These guys are so good in a restaurant

And to top it off with a game of "thumb war" at a Mexican restaurant.

I leave late tonight for a week in Macon, GA then a week in Oklahoma City. Hopefully it will go by quick and will be good weather.

Not what you want to see 5 min. before a bike ride

Today was going to be the normal Tuesday HACC lunch time hammer fest. I came home got dressed pumped up the tires placed the water bottle in the cage and started to head out when I noticed the rear tire wasn't rolling. After a little investigation I noticed one of the spokes had broke allowing the wheel to become out-of-round. So that meant no riding for me. Dropped wheel off at the local bike shop tonight and since it's under warranty they are going to try and replace the wheel (this is the 2nd spoke that's broke). At least it didn't break while I was riding, I suppose.

Incredible Friday

What an action packed Friday I had today. It started with a good friend / co-worker having a very nice retirement ceremony at the HQ PACAF bldg (court yard of heroes). Very nice ceremony and Joe with his 5 kids below. Then at lunch I decided instead of having lunch with Amanda at her school we would take off and go somewhere for lunch. We went to the officer's club for the Friday's special (stir-fry). She kept saying how special it was to have such a wonderful lunch and she felt like we were on a date.

Food was exceptionally good and hopefully we can do it again before Amanda gets out of school.

After lunch I had my quarterly reading to the 2nd grade class. Today's book was Balto (a true story of a very brave Alaskan dog that saved the city of Nome AK in 1925) still today considered the bravest dog in the world.
After reading I had about 15 min's before school let out so I decided to walk down to Pearl Harbor and just enjoying the beautiful day. What an incredible place

Then it was off to run a couple errands and get a bite to eat. While we were waiting for food Jake showed me his "lady-killer" look. He is such a ham

Then it was off for one last treat for the night. A scoop of ice-cream. While we were eating our ice-cream a young lady came up to us and gave the kids a doll her husband won out of the dollar machine. It didn't take the kids long to figure out how to have even more fun. It's so nice to hear the kids laugh so hard.

Now we are ready for the weekend!

Hawaii indoor sleding

Here is Jake practicing his indoor sledding down the stairs on his homemade sled (cardboard box and trash bag)

Honolulu Zoo

Since Amanda had the day off from school, Lynn decided to take the kids to the Honolulu zoo for the day.
Of course they had to visit the petting zoo. This is Jake's favorite part

This is Amanda's favorite part (almost swimming with the fish)

Jake showing off his climbing skills

Jake and Amanda riding the giraffe statue

Lynn and the kids enjoy the zoo