The past few weeks we have taken to goofing off on Friday afternoons/evenings.  This has, unfortunately, lead to spending most of the day on Saturday dealing with Jalen’s homework.  This week, I decided that we would come home right after school and work on homework like every other weekday.  Jalen finished his assignments, and that lead to free time on Saturday.  We spent the morning studying for his upcoming tests this week and after lunch and a nap (for all of us!) we headed down to spend the afternoon at Bishop Museum.  It has been a while since we’ve been down to the museum.  Since our last visit, our annual pass had expired, the Hawaiian Hall’s renovation had been completed and a new traveling display opened up.  I thought, what better time than now to renew?!

The new exhibit was animatronic dinosaurs.  These are always really really cool.  And unfortunately for a family with a four year old, also really really scary.  Look who greeted us at the entrance…

This big guy moved and growled (roared?) but it was quite intimidating.  I had to piggy back Jordan into the building.

we didn’t stay long inside this display, and I didn’t make Jordan look at anything too scary.  There was an excavation area with sand and cast skeletons that was pretty cool, and a bunch of more moving, roaring dinos.  We moved along to the newly unveiled Hawaiian Hall.

The inside of the hall has only minimal artificial lighting and a sign saying no flash photography.  I had carried both my 50mm f1.4 and my 10-22 3.5.  I got a few good shots, using pillars and counters to rest the camera on.

If you live in Hawaii and haven’t been to Bishop Museum in a while, I highly encourage you to make a visit. It is so beautiful!  If you’re coming on vacation to Oahu, this is a must see (along with Polynesian Cultural Center).

For the past year, I’ve been saving up to buy a new computer.  I wanted to buy a mac, but ended up going with a new PC.  This one has 8 Gig of RAM, a 1 Terra-byte hard drive (woo hoo lots of pictures and digi scrap space!) and also has a blue ray player.  It was very affordable, and I’m using my old *(still fabulous) monitor that I got last year.  add to this CS4 and totally rad actions… I have been so happy.  On my old computer, although I had installed 2 additional Gig of RAM, it was only recognizing a little over 3 Gig and CS4 kept crashing every time I’d try to open too many RAW files or run an action.  very frustrating.  so all in all, even though I didn’t get a mac *(or a new lens) I am thrilled with our new puter! yay, yay and double yay.  I am hoping this will lead to better productivity! (read more scrappage, blogging and picture editing!)

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Joscie, rhymes with bossy~