Aloha! LOST filming site spotted!

Over this weekend I realized that we've been here almost a year. With the summer weather we have been stand up paddling and hiking a lot. Last weekend we walked into another LOST shooting set. See the rear view in the pic? I think it might be some kind of temple where they'll add the top part of it using the computer effects. [UPDATE: after seeing the episode, it was Jacob's Lighthouse!] Last weekend Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof hosted a panel at the Hawaii International Film Festival to discuss ABC's TV show LOST, and Yunjin Kim (Sun), Jorge Garcia (Hurley), Terry O'Quinn (Locke) and Michael Emerson (Ben) were there. Yeah, so even though I don't have TV, we watch all the DVD's on the PS3. Gotta love LOST If you live in Hawaii. I may have mentioned this before but several of the actors live in this small town. I've run into Ian Cusack (Desmond) a few times but he told me he won't come to my yoga class because he doesn't like Bikram, the man not the yoga. Oh well.
Over the past several months we had a parade of visitors. That kept us busy as we didn't take any time off work while entertaining the visitors. A couple of avid LOST fans visited, and we took the filming sites tour at Kualoa Ranch. These pics are of Hurley's golf course site, and then a screenshot from the show.














This is the "Tempest" Dharma station from the tour, and how it appeared on the show.




















Our nephew visited alone, he's 9 and flew all by himself from California. Among the fun things we did, he burned out the PS3 by overheating it and wanted to skateboard a lot. Here's a pic I took at Aala Skatepark in Honolulu, and a pic from inside the Atlantis Submarine ride, of a giant sea turtle.















Another set of visitors came in and we went to the Big Island for a mini vacation. We stayed at the Fairmont Orchid. Beautiful.
OK, back to what his blog is about, the doggies. Tasha and Danzig survived the summer heat without air conditioning. However, I wouldn't recommend trying it with arctic breeds. There were a few days where they didn't even want to eat because they were too hot. We will probably install air conditioning before next summer. I am going to post this now and then go back to my last draft about dog travel preparations and the flight itself and finish that up for you. Mahalo for reading!

Happy Halloween!

The dogs enjoyed their first Hawaiian Halloween Friday night. With the warm weather, the kids were out trick or treating, and our dogs loved to greet everyone at the door. Here are some pics.

Our family room looks like a doggy daycare or Romper Room, we tried to make it somewhat sand-proof and slip proof for the dogs' furry feet. The first day one of our dogs twisted his knee getting off the floor so we had to put down a non-slip surface.

By the way, the baby in the picture dressed as a pumpkin, is cast to play Baby Aaron on ABC's hit television show, LOST. Aaron is Claire's baby, and Jack's (Matthew Fox) nephew. The "flash forward" baby Aaron who is being taken care of by Kate (Evangeline Lilly) is older. So Pumpkin baby will be in flashback or non-flash forward scenes, if you follow the show. But obviously, not dressed as a pumpkin.

The trick-or-treaters were sometimes more interested in the dogs than getting candy! We handed out packages of Halloween Arare treats, some were shaped like little bones, so some kids thought they were dog treats :) and we also gave out some sugary treats (fruit snacks - we tried to keep it healthy). Okay - back to the flying dogs here part - I'm working on it now, check back soon.

p.s. Does anyone know how to rearrange the posts so they show from oldest at the top of the page and newer ones as you scroll down? I'd like readers to be able to follow chronologically. I changed it on the side where it lists the posts, but it didn't show up that way on the page.