More Kalikimaka Cheer.

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More Kalikimaka Cheer

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Giggle With The Goats

On the way to the second part of Government Camp, I found this!

Enjoy!

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Da Snowy Day, Part One

Da awesome surprise going hafto wait till two moa posts pau. Cuz I like post snow photos when get snow. Cuz two weeks ago Nolemana and I had one appraisal up in Government Camp. On da slopes of Mount Hood. Which jass wen get snow. So hea goes.

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Da Mystery Road Trip Revealed, Part Thirty-One

Ho da long time, yeah? Well, one excuse is that I was at the beach with my friends for four days. But here I am again, and we’ll be driving through the Idaho desert for a bit longer. When we first moved to Twin Falls, I had a really hard time about the desert. The towns were green, with trees and flowers, but surrounding all of them was the desert. I never could get totally used to it; coming from Hawaiʻi where everywhere was green, I was sometimes known to whine about having to go through desert to get anywhere.

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Da Mystery Road Trip Revealed, Part Thirty

K’den. Last time we were just about to enter Shoshone Falls Park. This park is near and dear to Nolemana and I because we spent so much time here when Leilani was just a baby and toddler. Nolemana worked really long retail hours; he had one evening off per week (plus Sunday… believe it or not, the stores closed on Sunday back then), so when the weather was nice we usually drove down to the park and had a picnic. Leilani was born in March, so by the time we could have picnics she was several months old and could lie out on a blanket on the green grass..

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Omiyage

I bet lots of my mainland friends have no idea what omiyage means. So here, I’ll save you the trouble of looking it up:

In Japan, souvenirs are known as meibutsu (products associated with a particular region); and omiyage, candies or other edibles to be shared with co-workers.

For instance, if I go visit my cousins in Montana, I take both meibutsu and omiyage. But I never go empty-handed. You may ask, “And your point is?” Well, try wait. I’m gonna tell you. Continue reading

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Da Mystery Road Trip Revealed, Part Twenty-Nine

So sorry foa da delay. We just got a new client with extremely demanding and complicated ways we have to do our appraisal inspections and uploads. I have been building new brain cells for the past two weeks. At least I’m told that learning new stuffs does that. Hope springs eternal.

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Decisions, Decisions…And Da Mystery Road Trip Revealed, Part Twenty-Eight

K’den. Should I post about our trip to daboonies or continue with da Mystery Road Trip Revealed? Mo bettah I think stay on track. It’s hard to believe that this trip started a year ago almost to the day. We left home October 4, 2009! First I did Da Mystery Road Trip on this blog, then started all over again revealing where we’d been. Ho, how time flies. A year ago today we were just getting home from that amazing trip.

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Out To Da Boonies Big Time on Thursday!

We wen get one appraisal request dat is so far out in daboonies! We neva even wen hea of dis town befoa. Is dis tiny town surrounded completely by forest, wit one population less den 500. Get stoa. Get post office. Get a few peeps. Dat’s it. Needless to say, I going take my camera. Going try do da next Mystery Road Trip Revealed installment tomorrow. No can wait till Thursday, too. Stay tuned!

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