• Chevy Cobalt: This was our car (in yellow), a little compact thing with a surprisingly big trunk ("big butt car" as Dana called it).  Sometimes comes with a spoiler (we had one...zoom zoom...oh wait, Mazda).  Malibus and Impalas also made a showing, but Cobalt's dominted.
• Dodge Caliber: I had never seen this car before.  It's another small car, but shaped like an SUV kind of.  Reminded me of an SUV's premature baby (it would fit nicely in the 3 bears Hummer commercial, if it were a little boxier, maybe the newborn bear could have this one)
• Chrysler Sebring: 90% of these were convertibles too, so if you can't find one on the mainland it's because Hawaii has them all (and this was just Maui).
• Ford Mustang (the new one): And I heard there was a shortage of these things on the mainland last year.  Again, Hawaii must have taken them all.  And they were all the new model, in convertible form.  This would be a really cool car to get on an expensive vacation there.  You really wouldn't believe how many there were, my words can't do it justice.

• Dana got a new job (yay!) and has Monday-Wednesday off
• Dana's grandparents own a condo down there that is unoccupied right now, so we don't need to get a hotel room
• Flights are cheap right now: 300 per person
• Seattle is cold and Hawaii is warm

We're really excited, I will definitely take lots of pictures and post them when I get back.  Please contain your jealousy ;).

I got back from Shawn's graduation last Monday.  Got to see the family for a short time, before going back to PA for a week in July.  I stayed at Shawn's place in his crazy house of 10 guys.  I'm told it was in a relatively clean state while I was there.  Had I been there when it was considered "dirty," I may have needed some kind of bludgeoning weapon to fend off scavengers, dust boulders, and the occasional 1 ton rat.  Considering the luggage restrictions on airlines, it's fortunate that I didn't need to pack said weapon.  This is not to say that things would be any different if I lived there!

Other than attending Shawn's graduation ceremony (pictures of which are now located on my photo site!), I played a bunch of beer pong and tried a few new drinks at a bar called Dino's.  My pong was pretty iffy the first night, but by the second night I was becoming a pro (in my own world anyway).  I did hit my first five shots the second night, so that says something at least.  Unfortunately, I was carrying Shawn around like an anchor :), so we lost our third game to Min and Curtis.

All in all, a good trip.  Only thing missing was a little ballin'.  I packed my new shoes and everything, too!

Shawn graduates from Cornell this weekend, and I will be in Ithaca to cheer him on and whatnot.  Hopefully it doesn't rain too much.  Should get some basketball in too, which will be fun.   I can test out my new basketball shoes (which as always, were more of a trial to get than it was worth).  I went to Sports Authority to get some shoes, and their selection was pretty bad.  However, I did find a nice pair of Nike's that I wanted.  Unfortunately, there was only one set of size 11.5, and only one of the shoes was there.  There was another 11 in the box, and it was from a box that had some dirt-caked shoes in it (i.e. someone stole two shoes, probably of different sizes...).  I ended up getting some nice Air Jordans in Bellevue...not quite as comfortable or cheap as the Sports Authority pair, but they'll work :).