All my pictures are finally up except for the snorkelling ones, since I have to get film developed for those.  You can see them on my photos page.  I don’t have a link on my navigation bar to that yet.. it’s coming..

In my last post for the day we went home I said “Flight home.  Left at noon.  Yadda yadda yadda got back to Charlotte at 7:30 Monday morning.”  I left out that I thought I was going to die on the plane.  When I flew back from New York last summer I thought we hit some bad turbulence.  So when the captain said as we were leaving San Francisco that there was a funnel system over the midwest that we might run into, I thought “no big deal, I’ve done that before.”  Well, this turbulence was a whole lot worse.  From talking to people at work who’ve flown a lot I guess it’s not all that uncommon, but there was one bounce where I felt like the plane’s wings were perpendicular to the earth.  Probably wasn’t that bad, but still frightening.

One other thing I wanted to add:

Hawaiian Language 101
You may have noticed that in my posts I have been spelling that state I went to “Hawai’i”.  That is actually the correct spelling in Hawaiian.  There is no written Hawaiian language, but it can be transliterated to English with only the addition of the ‘onika (represented by an apostrophe).  When you see that in a Hawaiian word (always between two vowels or at the beginning of a word starting with a vowel), it means you kinda stop making a vowel sound there.  Like the way you say “uh-oh” as in “uh-oh spaghettios”.  Also, each vowel in Hawaiian only has one sound, so you’ve probably been pronouncing Ukulele incorrectly.  It’s really more like “ook oo lay lay”.  Both u’s make the same sound.  So anyway, I spelled all the words in Hawaiian.  Well technically I also need to put bars over some vowels to indicate where a non-standard stress is placed, but I didn’t know how to type that so I left it off on a few words.

Okay, time for bed.