NEW52-Week37, Aulani and more eats

This week started and ended with a bang.  To start the week, we went to Aulani's character breakfast.  This is the NEW Disney resort in Hawaii and our first visit there.  Long story short, it is not about the buffet and what you get or don't get, how long you waited (45 minutes even with reservations), but about the joy on the kids' face when they see Mickey for the first time.  Here is a photo of their amazing pool play area with the hotel in the back and a group shot with our friends Shari, Quan, Kammy and Kam-Kam.

I made a layout of some Aulani photos using a photoshop (elements friendly as well) action by Gennifer Bursett called "InstaAwesome."  This is the perfect action set for those who have the iPhone Instagram app envy (like I do).  To use this action, first crop your photo to 3x3, next run the action and make adjustments, then pick which frame you would like to use.  So simple and looks like the real thing.  Here is the action preview, my sample photo, and then my aulani love layout.  Now we can all fake having the real thing.  Sorry for the late post, but InstaAwesome was free over the weekend, hurry over there to see if it is still free.

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To end this week, we went to one of those street truck fairs.  In Hawaii they are called Eat the Streets.  It was so crowded so we only tried a few NEW things.  I was not willing to stand in line one hour for this. Here are a few photos from the shogunai taco truck, Tate enjoying his shoyu pork taco (which was really good).  Christine always includes eating photos of her husband and I think that always make the food look even better.

After this event we got ready to attend the University of Hawaii volleyball game.  We usually make it to at least one volleyball game a season and this one was not to be missed.  They announced earlier last week that they were going to do a special taping of Hawaii Five-O after the game.  They wanted to see a sea of green in the crowds so over 10,000 UH and Hawaii Five-O fans raced to the occasion and filled the arena.  Here are a few photos from the night.

 Do you see Daniel Dae Kim speaking to the crowd before the game?

 sea of green, never did I see the arena that crowded

Taping the "wahine's win over Rancho" scene

We stood in line for 90 minutes and missed the first 2 sets to receive a free (with $15 purchase) UH/Hawaii Five-O t-shirt.  Here I am proudly wearing mine.  So when the episode airs on October 17th (tentatively), look for me in the stands among the 10,000 extras that were there that night.  Aloha!!