Long time no blog! Today we visited the zoo (the skies miraculously cleared just as we got to Kapahulu!) and Aunty Christy's classroom. Here is a Flickr album with pictures from Eliza's trip to the zoo. Eliza got to monkey around on the playground and help the zookeeper feed the koi. She also got an up-close look at the tigers! After our visit to the zoo, we went to Aunty Christy's classroom, where Eliza met the principal of Aliiolani school. Aunty Christy explained that a principal is like the boss of the school. Eliza considered this and asked, "Can a kid be a boss of the school?" Sorry, not till the kid grows up! Yet another career aspiration :) At the end of the pictures you can sneak a peek at the beginning of Eliza's life-sized art project. Elementary school, here she comes!

Today we finished up Eliza's school supply shopping at Aunty Christy's favorite store: Fisher Hawaii! What a great, glorious mess of pens, pencils, paper clips, tape, rulers, protractors, art supplies, backpacks, stickers, notebooks, and ... globes!

Eliza insisted on finding the Hawaiian islands on every map and globe on display. She got pretty good at locating the "P" ocean as opposed to the "A" ocean. Already a geography ace ... her kindergarten teacher is so lucky!

We spent the rest of our time together at the Children's Discovery Museum, aka "Sensory Overload Central." Eliza was a blur of energy, a lightning bolt from (deep breath! ready, GO!) the doctor's office to the police station to the fire station to the grocery store to the bus back to the fire station to the mechanic's to the pet clinic to the boat to the airplane to the bubble machine to the Philippines to Korea to China to Japan back downstairs to the bubble machine to the pet clinic to the gigantic mouth to the brain and BACK AGAIN!

Aunty Christy so far has been joking about not being able to keep up with Eliza. Today she is not joking. Here are some pictures of Eliza's day - the only ones that are not impossibly blurry due to the speed at which Miss E moved from station to station!

Future mechanic?


... Or perhaps a firefighter.


Maybe a doctor?


X-ray technician ...


Pet groomer!


Eliza waits not-so-patiently for her turn onstage at the Keiki Theater.


She found this cute kimono (happi coat?) in "Japan" and refused to part with it, even when visiting other countries. Here in "China" she serves some random other child's parents tea. Somewhere out of the frame, their little boy is nonplussed.


Bubblicious fun!