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When Ray and I moved to Hawaii Ray suggested that I start up a food blog, since I not only love love to eat, but I’m so gosh darn critical when I eat.  Before Ray I was computer illiterate and after Ray I’m like a computer genius.  That’s a bit of an overstatement, but I am a computer whore.  I’m addicted to being on the computer so it only made sense to broaden my horizons and start up my very first blog.  I wanted to make it more of my own so I called it Cheap Places To Eat In Oahu Hawaii, because of the very obvious, I’m super cheap.  Not only did it allow me to taste food but I also got a taste of my love of photography.  I’m not claiming to be a master photographer or anything.  But hey, you got to start somewhere right?  I got a new camera that I actually don’t plan on returning, Cannon G9.  It’s the perfect camera for a beginner photo enthusiast such as myself.   Every time I go out to eat, which is like everyday, I bring it along and snap away.  I love my food blog.  I try very much to make it my own by putting a lot of my humor and personality in it, which means I’m brutally honest and I talk like sailor.  I’ve gotten tons of comments of how much people are enjoying my blog.  It’s really flattering.  As of today I have almost 500 daily readers, that’s including the people that subscribe to my feed.  The other day I even go a check in the mail, so I can now say that I’m a real food critic, since I actually got paid and all.  It’s been about a year now and I’ve written on over 160 different places, not bad.  I’m not gonna lie, at times it does seem a bit tedious, especially now that I have this personal blog; it’s a lot more interesting writing about myself.  I guess my ego’s starting to grow because there are times I get tired of always having to take photos of my food.  And I only get tired of it because I know I’m capable of taking some amazing photos, and it restricts me from doing so.  Anyhow, I still love my blog, it’s my baby and she grows bigger and bigger everyday.

Here are a few of my favorite photos.

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So we’re back from our camping trip and it was awesome.   For spending only one night there I took a ton of photos.  Ray and I got there super early and ended up exploring the area and killing time at the beach.

Ray was thrilled to find a clean toilet.  I, on the other hand was a bit disappointed.   What ever happen to roughing it?

Ona and Jen came mid day and brought the tent with them.  I don’t think any of us are experinced at the art of tent making so when it was finally up we were super stoked and oh so proud.

Yah bitches!

Soon Holly and Mark made it out so we got the fire started and grill going.

But before that I took a killer photo of Ona and Jen making sexy time.

Of course no camping trip would be complete without smores.  I love me some smores.

My baby is so gosh darn sexy.

Check out everyone’s stick compared to mine.  You know I don’t fuck around.

Anyhow, this was an alcohol free camp grounds.  I know pretty lame, but as long as we were discrete about it, like no open bottles or cans, they didn’t bother us.  By the end of the night I was pretty sloshed.  Mark and Holly brought our good friend Mary along and we all had a splendid time together.

The next morning we woke up early enough to catch sunrise.   You know you want to throw up we’re so cute.

What about now?  Are we still cute now?

Ray got over camping quick, like the next morning considering he didn’t get any sleep.  I guess the ground was too hard and there was too much creepy noise going on all night.  My baby is such a light sleeper.  I, on the other hand, sleep great.

I made some beans cowboy style, right over the fire for breakfast.

Ona and Jen slept some more.

Mark and Holly took a romantic stroll down the beach.

I swang on a rope.  If you look close enough you can see me wearing a set of two glasses, my seeing glasses and my sunglasses.

Mark and Holly kissing in a tree, K-I- S- S- I- N- G. First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in the baby carriage.

Holly and I pretend to direct a movie. I was balancing myself on one foot, my chair had no seat.

Mark found a pussy and Ray found a dick. What a pair.

Ray went on strike.  NO MORE WORK.

We had to be outta there by noon so we packed up our shit and headed to the beach next door.

Oh, I forgot to mention, the campsite is loaded with cocks.  I know the owners do this on purpose to get everyone up and ready to check out by noon.  It was the most annoying thing in the world.  I almost got to see a cock fight.  Unfortunately, it ended shortly after it started.  I wouldn’t mind seeing one die after what they put me through.

We were planning on taking Marks surf boards out and paddling them out to the near by island.  During low tide you could actually walk out to it, but it was high tide and a bit too rough to attempt.

Instead, we relaxed, drank, sunbathe, Ray practice his golf swing, we played horse shoe and then ended the day with couple bocci.

What you see here is professional bocci form.  You guys should be taking notes.

A lot of fondling going on.

Ona’s got it down.

During our game Holly impulsively runs out to the ocean. I’m like,  awe, she’s being totally spontaneous.  Nope, I was wrong, she had to take a piss.

And the winner is . . . green team, Mark and Holly!!!

That’s about it folks.  I had a phenomenal time. We definitely need to do it again.

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A couple days ago, Sunday, we had plans to go to Melekahana Beach with our friend Amber.  We drove to Amber’s and from there she drove.  On the way she was like, “have you guys been to the Byodo-In Temple?”  By do what?  Huh?  The crazy thing is this beautiful temple sits atop a hill in a cemetery.  Yes, cemetery.  I’ve been to this cemetery before, don’t worry nobody died.  Thing is this is just a really gorgeous cemetery but I never knew there was a temple there the whole time.  We made a spontaneous stop.  It cost two dollars per person to get in, nothing is free in Hawaii.  Here are some photos of what I missed out on last time.

This is what we walked up to.  It was like walking into a Chinese fairytale.

Amber and Ray

My first thoughts when I saw this place was that it would be a really nice place to get married.  Amber said people have gotten married here before.  Crazy, right?  To get married at a cemetery?  Might even be bad luck.  I don’t think I’ll risk it.

Here are some  photos  last time we were here.  Ray, Shane and I were out exploring the island.

I’m not a fan of being buried but if I were this is where my body would rot.

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Last Friday was my friend, Jen’s birthday.  She and Ona have been dating for about a year now and the two of them together are my favorite lesbian couple.  They’re super cute, happy and totally in love.  Anyhow, for Jen’s birthday we were all suppose to head down to Rumors decked out in our 80′s gear but Ona decided to be super girlfriend and throw Jen a surprise dinner party at Jen’s favorite restaurant, Aunti Pastos the night before.  She totally blind folded her, drove around in circles so Jen wouldn’t count the turns and figure out where she was, and walked her down the street to Aunti Pastos still blind folded.

She cut into her ice cream cake before I got a chance to take a photo.

Jen and Ona looked totally gorgeous tonight.

I don’t know half the people here.  Most of them are from Dolphin Quest, where Jen works, I believe.  I’m not in the photo because like always I am the photographer recording and documenting memories, a very respected and major role.  Somebody has to do it.

In Ona’s words, “tragic.”  One word to totally describe the way we looked that night. What made it even more tragic was that 80′s night at rumors was moved to Saturdays.  Ray warned them that there would be a bunch of old geriatrics in cages there.  How my honey knows this I don’t want to know.  Anyhow, they did confirm that there were a bunch of older people there and moved the party to Irish Rose.  I was happy to hear of this news because Irish Rose is my favorite local bar.  It’s like a big dive bar that you could actually illegally smoke in and has free live music everyday of the night.  What I love even more was that I heard the party was moving before we had left the house, so I was able to remove my skin tight leggings and leg warmers but left my shirt on because it’s 80′s but still totally fashionably sensible.

Tragic, totally tragic.

I love this photo because everyone is totally immersed in a conversation.

I love this photo because everyone is totally immersed in a conversation while my honey and I can’t stop staring at each-other.

Yes Jen is locking lips with a boy, but they’re both gay, drunk and Ona’s there so three strikes and your good to go.

Amber and Beth even made it out.  We didn’t find out till a few days later that they were both totally drunk beyond recognition.  I know, totally look sober to me, very interesting.

Happy Birthday Jen!

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In our left corner we have Amber Watt from Colorado and in our right corner we have Ray Hernandez from Mexico.

Drum roll please . . .

Amber wins!!!!!  Ray looses once again. Go back to Mexico and practice some more.

I went home on this  night drunker than I have  been in a very long time.  I met Al, he’s a flamer and an Aries.  I don’t know if you know or not but Aries and Aquarius are super compatible so before I left he got me this monstrous shot of patron.  Big mistake.  I never really get hang overs but the next day I felt like shit and missed my driving test.  No license for me, I’m stuck with a permit for now.

He are some more photos from the time before at Deep End.

Ray’s first break in a long long time.  It scared the fucking shit out of me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Driving along the beautiful coastal highway there are several spots to stop and enjoy the breathtaking view.  One of the most popular spots is not because of it’s larger parking lot but because it’s right above Cockaroach Cove.  This place is sorta hidden along the highway and you don’t really notice it until you lean over and look down to see a few beachcombers laying out or having fun in the water.  It’s a steep hike to get to but it’s awesome once your there.

Ray and Shane opening a can of whoop ass before taking off

Here are some photos of the last time we were here during our vacation.  Holly shit, that was over a year ago.

That’s Shane and Ray up there.

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My Baby Our Baby launches. It actually launched last month so this post is a little late. Ray’s been working on this project for, well, since we’ve lived in Oakland. After coming up with the designs he was ready to get this site up and running. Along the way he had to deal with flaky programmers that would basically dick him around. Finally, after wasted, antagonizing months, money, and time we just wanted to deal with someone who knew what they were doing, were professional, and affordable. We’ll as you all know, we packed up and moved to Hawaii. Ray quit his job. The lead developer of and our very talented friend, Beau quit shortly thereafter. Somehow Ray convinced Beau to adopt this project. With Ray’s creative talent and Beau’s geeky brain MyBabyOurBaby.com was finally born.

MyBabyOurBaby.com is like an online baby scrap booking site. It’s a place where you can share and show off how cute and adorable your little one is. But it’s different because as you as the parent build a networking site around your baby by inviting everyone that’s involved in your baby’s life to the book either as a contributor or a reader. Let’s face it, at this day and age everyone has a digital camera. If your baby’s around, someone will be taking a photo of your baby sooner or later, locking in a very special memory. Chances are you will never even get to see these photos and they’ll just be stored away in the back of some hard drive or camera disc never to be seen again. MyBabyOurBaby will let you and anyone you allow to upload these photos, write a little story about it, share it with everyone you invite so they can see how your baby is doing, growing and is connected to. Basically the book of your little one will grow even if you don’t have the time to write just as long as someone is writing. Just think, birthdays, holidays, babysitter, etc. There’s memories of your baby out there waiting to be cherished. Also, another cool factor is that the site will upload the photos in chronological order so you can read it in the order that it all happens. It’s super innovative, different, totally easy to use and beneficial.

As you can tell, I’m super proud of my honey. I’ve been there since day one, acting as a right hand man, if you will. I’ve seen his enthusiasm, passion, losses, disappointments, and avid determination he has to see this through. I can’t tell you how proud of him I am. Since it’s launch it’s been written about on several sites and currently has about 300 members. Here are some links.

Crunch Base

Mashable

Killer Start Ups

Gen Beta

Toph Speaks

Discovering Dad

808 Talk

Baby Roadies

Publisher Blog

Matt

Honolulu Advertiser

Also, Ray made the front page of the local paper and with it he brought his niece Sianna.

How cool is that? Congratulations honey. I’m so proud of you.

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Hawaii’s not really known to be a place where musicians go too often for concerts.  Being away from everything, it’s kinda off course for most tours.  Usually when big name bands do happen to make it out here tickets sell out faster than pot brownies on 4-20.  Last week Incubus  had a concert They were playing at the Shell, which is a super small stadium about 3 blocks away from where I live.  Some would argue that Shell Stadium sucks balls because it’s so small and others would argue that Shell Stadium kicks ass because it’s so small.  I think it kicks ass for being located in the park so close to where I lived, that way I get to enjoy some free, live music with my friends over some BBQ, and drinks.  We’re not the only ones who do this, the park is usually packed with people when there’s a concert going on.

Ray, Shane and I came early to scope out a good spot.  We brought our boccie set and had a few rounds in before everyone got there.  Last time I played open a can of whoop ass on everyone, this time I think I came in second.

It’s smart to bring a bunch of plastic cups to events like this to put your alcohol in so the cops won’t harass you.  It’s one of those things where everyone is drinking and the cops all know, but as long as your a little discreet about it they won’t bother you.

This is our friends Holly and Mark.  They’re a super awesome couple that usually comes around when Ona and Jen do.  Mark came a little late because in attempt to find a parking spot he almost got ass raped by some gay.  He was a little traumatized throughout the night and of course we all gave him shit for it.

Ray is a very violent man.  He’s from Texas so he still pretends that he carries around a gun.

It took me like four times to get this picture right because my eyes kept coming out closed.

Jen, Ona, and friend.  I obviously don’t really know the 3rd girl all too well, since I don’t even remember her name, but she was also around the last time we had an event at the park.  Who knows maybe we’ll see more of her.

Alright, so the best part of the night was  at the end.  I don’t know why but for some crazy reason Shane had this idea to do ring around the rosie.  He actually had this idea to do duck duck goose earlier on, but no one really paid too much attention.  Anyhow, finally everyone was like sure, let fucking do this shit, draw a bunch of attention our way, and look like a bunch of stupid drunks in front of the cops.  So there was like 6 of us the first time.  We were laughing so hard and having so much fun that when we all fell down some hippie chick comes over to us and goes, “um, yeah, I was wondering if you guys were going to do that game again, and if I could play.”  We were like fuck yeah, so we gathered a few more on lookers to participate.  This time the circle had grown to be about 15 people.  It was so much fun to see a bunch of drunks playing ring around the rosie.  By the time we fell, more people came wanting to play.  So of course we we’re all like, fuck yeah.  The last and third time there were probably like 30 people, who knows.  It was one big fucking circle of drunks playing ring around the rosie. When we all fell down everyone was laughing histerically.  Some girl even managed to film the thing.  Ray and I are trying to get a copy of that video so I could put it up here and document it.  The night couldn’t have ended better.

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