We have internet access!

Yea! We finally have Internet access! Thank goodness - I start classes Tuesday. However, we are now experiencing spotty power outages due to extremely high wind gusts (60+) today, tonight and into tomorrow. They've actually closed beaches on the North Shore and Leeward side of the island, as well as a couple on the Windward side (where we are). And, they have closed all public schools, already tonight, for tomorrow. UH-Manoa and lots of private schools are also closed (on all the islands).

So - the plan is to catch up on this blog tomorrow - so long as I have power!

I reciently celebrated my (ahem) 30th birthday, and in honor of the occasion we decided to get out of Dodge for the weekend. And to illustrate that I am totally ok with my geeky-ness and that I trust that you all will love me in spite of it, I will actually share with you what we did.

We went down to Dayton to the National Air Force Museum at Wright Patterson AFB. The museum is huge, I mean really huge. Three giant hangers (something like 200,000 square feet each) and over 300 aircraft on display, plus lots of related artifacts. We spent almost 5 hours there and while we saw pretty much everything, we didn’t stop to read all the signs/exhibits, etc. I think it could be a couple day project to get through it all.

Sunday we drove over to the Ohio Renaissance Festival, which was fun, but we didn’t stay as long as we thought we might. Ren fairs are always interesting, and full of interesting characters.

Ike rudely interrupted our plans, so we left early. Whoever heard of a tropical storm in Ohio? Craziness.

Crazy weather notwithstanding, it was so nice to get out of town!