Flowers

 She's so cute!

Aaaaaahhhhhhhhh!

It does leave a wicked pigtail hangover though.

More Trouble

If you look really closely, you might be able to tell exactly how high on the tree River can reach.

Not so silent a night

Little girl was having trouble sleeping the other night, but was quite happy to blow bubbles and listen to daddy play guitar for a while.

Pig tails!

 Aww, wookit the widdle piggy tails!  They have rendered the speech centers of my brain faulty.

 She's too cute, I can't stand it.  She looks life a flapjack octopus.

She's even adorable when heartbroken because I am not picking her up.

Roller Coaster

 At the Bishop Museum right now, the rotating exhibit is about roller coasters.

 Right up front there is a 1/20 scale coaster called "the Black Plague."  In real life the 9~ Gs would put you out cold, but in miniature it is just hand-flappingly awesome.

The model has a timer on it, so the car will only launch after a three minute break.  There is nothing he will wait 3 minutes for, except to push the button to start the ride.  And he'll do that as long as we are willing to let him.

There are some other hands-on demonstrations of the physics involved, as well as a large screen that plays video of several roller coasters set up with feedback chairs to simulate a ride. 

But after a couple minutes exploration we always end up back here.

Tiny girl, old gods

 Keep up, we have places to be!

 Saturday morning at the Bishop Museum.  We were the first people there.

 River says hello to Kū, Lono, and Kāne.  Kū is wrapped as it is not his season.  Winter belongs to Lono, the god of peace and rest.  At the end of Makahiki the Akua Loa (image of Lono) will be taken down, and Kū is unwrapped to rule again. 

 River is most impressed by the cool rocks the gods have.

The little god River is waving at is Kaneikokala.  He has a neat story.  A man in Kawaihae was led by a dream to the spot where the ki'i (tiki) was buried.  He said the ki'i had pled to be brought in from the cold.  He was brought to the Bishop museum in 1906, and installed in the hall.  Later, plans were made to move him outside to a more suitable location, but the little ki'i was having none of that and refused to be moved.  As far down as they dug to excavate him, the stone continued farther.  Clearly he prefers it inside.

It's so beautiful...

The kids, bonding over one of the few things they have in common:  Baby Neptune.