Hawaii

Yep I knew I'd slack at this and now I have to do some "catch-up". So to start I'll give a short re-cap on our trip to Hawaii a couple of weeks ago. About 9 months ago I submited an abstract to the International Child Abuse and Neglect Conference which was accepted for a 20 min. oral presentation. This year the conference was held in the USA(occurs about once every 5 years), so it was feasable to go...and it didn't hurt that it was in Hawaii. My travel was sponsered by the state and we got a killer deal on a ticket for Kari, so we decided to extend the trip beyond the 4 days of the conference to hang at the beach, play with the Alsops and our friend Rachael. First the conference was great, and I made a lot of contacts that will hopefully "pay-off". Second the surf was up and the weather was well...sunny in fact a got a sun burn to prove it, you'd think I'd know better after having lived there!