Today it was time to act like true American tourists, so we visited Pearl Harbor – and we used a coupon to get a discount on the entrance fee! The visit of the Bowfin submarine was surprisingly interesting, with a nice guided audio tour. Some free advice: never take the top bunk bed if you’re […]
Well, we now know why Hawaiian number plates all feature rainbows: because it rains a lot here! But there also is a lot of sun, at least if you’re on the right side of the island, so that means almost 24/7 rainbows. Who cares. We’re still in Hawaii and we’re still starting a year long […]
As of today, I am officially ‘in between jobs’, the American euphemism for unemployed. ‘What do you do for a living?’ ‘Nothing’. Or: ‘Nothing, I just live’. Hmm…. somehow, it does not quite sound the same as ‘I am a marketing manager with Symantec’. But I am sure I’ll get used to it! After two […]
I thought that this weekend our niece & nephew would come to stay with us, as we had planned weeks ago. Turns out Erwin had been lying to me about this all along! When I walked down the stairs on Saturday morning I fully expected to find my nephew hiding in the living room somewhere, […]
