Kauai trip #2

I really dont know what I am going to do now. I sat down to watch TV (or really watch one of my DVDs from netflix since I dont have Cable) and my freaking DVD player is broken. I really dont want to buy another one, but I cant just come home and work every night, so i might have to just pony up and buy one. Especially since i just got season 2 of entourage on DVD and I was in the middle of them.
Also, I just got finished IMing with my mom, and I asked her about what happened in the Astros game tonight since i dont get to see all of them at work. She told me the story and also mentioned the fact that they havent scored in their last 23 innings, just like Rice. This is really sad. I was hoping for a little better performance once we got Clemens back. The only good news is that the Braves are doing terrible this year, so my friends in Atlanta cant gloat.

So some new visitors are coming out from home. Next one is my Pop. His one goal is to learn to surf. I promise everyone that I will take plenty of pictures. Seriously, this might be the highlight of my life. Unless he has lost a significant amount of weight, i am going to have to get him a front door to let him get up, but i am planning on doing whatever it takes to get him up surfing. I dont know what else he wants to do while he is here, but that might take his whole trip out here. Also, Megan is coming over here to see me. Im sure there will be plenty of stories when she gets here. I dont know who is more excited, me or Nola.

Monday I just got back from my second trip to kauai. Go airlines just came out with a $19 one way ticket to outer islands so i took advantage of it. i got there friday and Ford was doing a story on the albatross birds on the wildlife reserve out there for the Garden Island, so I got to tag along. It was one of the coolest things I have ever seen. The birds were so unafraid of humans that we were able to go up and touch them. The Garden Island has a link to some pictures if you want to take a look. Honestly it was some of the best stuff I have seen out here.

http://www.kauaiworld.com/shared-content/gallery/?galleryid=8&gallery_page=0

Also, here is the article Ford wrote on the birds.
http://www.kauaiworld.com/articles/2006/06/25/news/news01.txt

I think Kauai has three bars and one of them closed down a few weeks ago, so Friday we went to their new hangout. It was quite an interesting mix. There were a few randoms doing karaoke at the bar, a couple of total burnout surfers playing pool and some oter randoms in the bar. I think the guy to girl ratio was about 20:1.
The rest of the weekend ford worked, so Jeff and I went on some pretty cool hikes. The place with the tidepools is called secret beach, and is apparently a nude beach. We caught a couple in one of the tide pools while we were walking around. The other pictures are from another hike we did on Saturday. I cant remember the name, but we had to take the only road that goes towards the center of the island to get there. Other than that I caught up on entourage and ESPN. And I did see some world cup soccer including david beckham puking after scoring a goal. I really didnt need to see that.

I hope everyone has a great 4th of july weekend, and I will definitely put a post up after the holiday.