Learning to drive on the left isn't as hard as you'd think, especially in the beginning, when you spend all your time thinking "stay on the left; stay on the LEFT". What's really hard is remembering that the turn signal has also changed sides. I think it'd be easier to get a bumper sticker that says "If my wipers start, I'm turning. Deal with it." -- that feels a little more American anyway.
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posted by Dug @ 7:50 PM
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One Ali-ism that has already become legend in our household: In Fiji, I got up one morning, went to the beach house and brought back a kayak. This was a terrible idea, back-wise, but Sara, Katie, Meg & I all had a good time exploring for a while. The best part, though, was Ali's reaction:
Ali: What that?
Katie: That's a kayak.
Ali: (very interested these days in what sounds different animals make) What kayak say?
Katie: I don't know, Ali. What do you think a kayak says?
Ali: "Hullo. I'm a kayak."
posted by Dug @ 12:55 PM
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posted by Dug @ 12:42 PM
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We've had trouble getting online during our 2-week south island adventure, but I bought a fairly large block of time for these last couple days, so I may be able to add a few things. I've been putting the pictures up first, so even if I can't edit this website, you can still see the latest pics up at http://picasaweb.google.com/dsteen.
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posted by Dug @ 12:28 PM
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I believe that I just saw a huumuuhuumuunuuanuua’apuua’a while snorkeling just outside our bure. It’s the Hawaiian state fish and the one thing I remember from our honeymoon in Hawai’i (okay, not the one thing). Katie wasn’t sure that a Hawaiian fish would be in Fiji, but it’s tropical, Pacific … seems possible to me. Normally that’d be a quick lookup on The Googles, but we have to pay for access here, so I’m using it sparingly. Still, it might be worth it just to get the spelling right before I post this. (Like any of you care.)
Katie’s been taking all kinds of pictures so far. (Her self-described strategy: take all the pictures you want and sort ‘em out later. I haven’t told her that in my experience, you rarely find time for “later”.) I’ve taken only a few, but I’ll post a couple right now just to make sure I can do so.
posted by Dug @ 8:23 PM
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Here we are in Fiji and my general feeling is relief: after weeks of planning and preparation and days of running around and nights of waking up thinking “can’t forget that,” we’re finally here. Our luggage made it safely—all 17 items worth—and the plane ride was not the disaster that 13 hours with three kids forced into a confined space would imply. I’m having trouble calculating the total trip time, but let’s see: We left at around 10:30a on Thursday and we all took a well-deserved rest in our Fiji bure at about 12:30p on Saturday. Translated to Boulder time (add four hours, subtract a day) and that’s 4:30p Friday. Thirty hours, all told. Pretty amazingly quick considering we traveled half-way around the world. I don’t even think that beats my longest domestic (US) flight ever.
Seeing as how we’re on the other side of the world (the opposite quartisphere, if you will), I think things should be more different. Sara disagrees: she finds differences everywhere. But they’re not enough for me. We’re on the other side of the world for goodness sakes; at the very least, everything should be upside-down.
posted by Dug @ 9:06 AM
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The Boulder Steens are spending the first half of 2009 in Wellington, New Zealand.
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