Clearly "I don't drink coffee anymore" is a total lie.

House Cleaning in Progress, Stand By.

A day or so into the Maui trip, I knocked together the blog here as a way to make sending updates to people a little easier on, well, me. It didn't occur to me that anyone was actually *reading* it.

Since we've been back, whenever we run into someone we haven't seen since we've been back all say the same thing; "we really enjoyed the blog. Are you going to keep posting?"

In that case, we're back by popular demand. Stand by for updates. I'm going to be doing some cleanup of the older entries (first drafts on iPhone = really easy; editing on iPhone? Really hard.), and I'll see if I can get the one picture that never posted right to show up.

Also - hijinks?

Happy birthday, America?

Happy birthday, America!

Home again, home again, jiggety-jig

Put the LAX back in relax

Aloha, Maui

And who doesn't like hanging out in airports?

We had a great time. It was a classic Gabe&Heidi trip, which means we spent most of the time overcoming bizarre obstacles. The microwave never did get fixed, by the way. Poor Heidi spent the first half of the trip sick, although we never had to find an ER, so we've got the trip to Disneyland beat. It took her a few days to get into the swing of things; her not feeling well combined with the heat & humidity led to a fairly grumpy Mrs. Helman. She got better, though - she got used to the weather and started feeling better. A few days after we got here, she was sitting out on our porch, looking out at the water and watching the waves knock down little kids on the beach.

"Well," she sighed, more to herself than anyone else, "I finally saw turquoise water."

Aloha Maui. See you next time.

On the way home

All packed up and ready to go. So long, room.

Last night on Maui

But will it be an APA or MLA citation?