tuesday night

Robyn is at a baby shower this evening for someone at church, and I am all alone at home... I just bbq'd some steaks for us, and I am ready to eat them all rite now they look so juicy and delish!
Sorry we havent been updating our blog too often, but we have been really busy. I started school last week and I am taking five classes: Statistics, Tropical Fruit Tree production, genetics, agriculture engineering, and this senior ag seminar class. They are all pretty easy and I dont think it will be too bad, but i have to go to all the classes, and that can be hard for me.
Robyn has been typing medical reports from the house and seems to be really tired at the end of the day. I have been working remodeling jobs down the street and some other construction jobs. I would rather work full time actually then go to school, but I want to finish up and get the degree.
I am going to go set the bike up on the indoor trainer and watch tv untill Robyn gets home.
Here is a picture of the Hilo Surf.

cat Pictures... The Queen of Cochrane... Sasha

more house pictures

Hawaii 5.0

We just got our internet hooked up!!!
Here are some pics of our house and also of the sasha from canada

Canada One

We have been in canada now for about 4 Days. Today we went to the stampede breakfast downtown Cochrane. There was a country music band, a kids petting zoo (no cats), horse back rides, free pancakes and sausage, and orange juice. It was a fun time. Today is a sunny clear day and who knows what we will do today... hopefully tonight we will go to the show and see the new pirates movie.
Yesterday Robyn had her first Doctor appt. Doctor Bell was his name. He did a few tests and reckoned that Robyn is 8-10 weeks along. We will try to get into the ultrasound monday but if not we will definetely do it before we leave canada. We will have some pics from this mornings festivities by later today...

Funny Cat (videos)

this is a funny cat video that cracks Robyn up every time she watches it...

World cup Walking

So for the weekend we took the train down to Paris. The eurostar is a really fast train and of course it goes rite under the English channel in the chunnel. When we left we where facing backwards and couldn't see out the window that well, but its such a smooth ride and so much nicer than the Italian regional trains. I was pretty claustrophobic though when I found myself pinned into my seat and in the chunnel knowing that I was under a freaking SEA!!! Imagine all that water on top of you!!!

when we got to Paris we took a taxi to our hotel. It was in the "La Defense" quarter which is a very new community with all the tall high rises. We went on priceline and got a hotel there which was a four star hotel. The rooms normally cost 500 euros per night. We only paid 70 a night!!! (which is the same kind we are in rite now in London). Our room was so nice... Huge bed, Tons of room... Weight room was like a real gym, sauna, steam room, and lots of snotty people! It was a blast though. We were rite next to this huge mall with restaurants and the subway.
Saturday we decided to take the double Decker bus tour. I (Dan) sat on top and took about 70 pictures of Paris, Robyn sat underneath to stay out of the sun (a first I think for Robyn). We got of and checked out almost all the sights and then headed back to the hotel after about 6 hours so that we could take a nap.
That evening we went out after dinner and went up the Eiffel Tower.

Here is the cool story...

So we taxied to the tower at about 9pm. We wanted to go when it was dark and the sun didn't go down till about 9:30. We were wondering why there was absolutely nobody out on the streets.
We got to the tower and went up to the very top. We really loved it and its such an awesome view. I cant believe how big Paris is. Probably the biggest City I have ever been in. While we were up there we saw this girl talking on her cell phone... All of a sudden she started to scream, then someone else on his phone starts screaming, then pretty soon we can hear this low boom roaring down below us. The sound grew louder and louder until we could make out what it was, people screaming and cars honking. It didn't take long to realize what was up, France had just beat Brazil in the world cup. We knew we wouldn't be getting home to soon!!!
So we took the last elevator down at about midnight having lost track of time. This is when we realized that we wouldn't be able to find a taxi... We started to walk thinking we could make it to the train station and jump on the subway. Well with all the people and we didn't know where to go so it took us almost an hour to get there just in time to watch the last train leave. We climbed the stairs of the subway next to the huge victory arch. There was 500 000 people there. I kid you not!!! Half a million people, fireworks, cars on fire, police with crowd control weapons, and tons of confusion. These world cup fans are honestly the craziest most devoted fans in the world. They celebrate and treat soccer like a war. If you could get Iraq to play France and beat them, you would have 2 million people going over there to take some blood, I think we need to tell Bush that plan! Robyn and I were exhausted and weren't in any condition to be walking home but there was no other option. We felt like we were in a war zone and I mentioned about five times that I felt like we were in the movie 28 days later... We had to walk about 10 miles total to get back to the hotel. It took us till 3am and we were so happy to get back there. I took some video of it all. Just the coolest/craziest thing ever. I admit I was scared for our lives!! Well Sunday is pretty much a blur since we were so tired. All we did was sleep and train back to London.

Just a note... Walking that far that late at night sucks. We just wanted to taxi down there take some pics and taxi back and sleep... Its funny sometimes the trouble you can get into. We said like fifty prayers that night asking for help... Well we are fine of course and Rite now were waiting for our eggwhite omelets. See you all in Canada tomorrow and you in SD in a week.
Love everyone and miss you tons...
Robyn and Dan

Here is the Link to our Paris Photos
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/hilosurfer2003/album?.dir=/b05fre2

Cobra Kai Lives

This entry is dedicated to a great American hero. In 2003 in the month of June, Mike Morrill aka Johnny aka Cobra Kai, married my sister, Karyn. Having been in hiding for the past 15 years, the Cobra Kai will soon leave his mark on the world. Only this time...it will be by the hand of his newborn son, Nash aka The Rattler.
For those of you reading this, we ask you to please keep this a secret for while dangerous he is still in his youth and must learn valuable lessons from the Cobra Kai....strike first, strike hard, no mercy.
LaRusso, your crane is no match for the venomous bite that awaits you.
We love you, Cobra Kai!

London Pics so far

We are just about to go bowling here in london but we wanted to post our pics thus far. Please forgive Robyn of her spelling errors in these blogs, but I dont take the time to edit what she has written.

Umbria... pics

All these pics were at that 7th century house in umbria where St Francis lived. the path, the chapel the cemetery and the wilderness. You cant forget of coarse the Cats and the race.

video links

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6995624250315306712 this one is an italian cat
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8501757729304616274 this is Leila
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3887597211707044286 this is a start to my third race

pics

more and more pics yea yea

Robyn is on the phone to San Diego here
She is telling someone the good news...












Robyn had to get her arm bandaged up after she wiped out on the highway...But she loves the scars she gets from crashing






Dan Building a fire for a barbeque in Reggio... amidst our orchard

This is Dan Floating in the Med Sea. 36 degrees outside (celcuis) and the water was freezing so it was nice The others of of Dan in the pool. I thought we would buy a swimming pool cause it was so hot and we were being lazy and didnt feel like going to the beach. we would overheat in like 10 minutes and then go jump in the pool.

London Hotel

These first two are from Montecatini Terme were our last race was.

Here are some more pictures... We are in the hotel in london rite now and its high speed internet so we thought we would take advantage and make some good posts.

Here is a pic from the night train we took. We were so squished that we had to sleep with our bikes and it sucked.