The One Club

Mary Warlick, Executive Director of The One Club, knows both great advertising and Arngee.

The Traveling Vineyard

The Traveling Vineyard has arrived to demystify the wine-buying experience through in-home wine tastings where people get to explore their palate for fine wine and become more confident in their choices. Think of it as a Tuppperware Party but with wine!

I hosted a party last Sunday and it was a blast. Having someone come to your house with wine. All I had to do was invite friends and have some snacks! Sweet!

Well, my friends asked about Arngee, I swear THEY did. Next thing I know they were taking pictures with him. So here is Arngee at the wine party!

Aloha Arngee

Arngee waves goodbye to the Pacific and Hawaii before heading home to Chicago.

3 wise men

Better yet, 3 lucky men! Craig Welsh, Mark Rosenthal and Richard Zeid, presented their individual theses at the 4th Annual Hawaiiin International Conference on Arts and Humanities in Waikiki. Arngee chaperoned to make sure they did their work and did not just play the whole time!

Thems are three dapper dudes!

LL Cool J

As in Ladies Love Cool Juice, our man Arngee!

Lisette Diaz is the reigning US Miss World 2005.

Lisette facts
Born: Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico while her father was in medial school.
She grew up in San Diego, California, home to the world famous San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park.
Education: Lisette is a student at the University of California San Diego and part-time Administrative Assistant for the Youth Department Bonita Valley Community Church,
Ambition: Become a High School Literature Teacher and eventually start her own school.
Hobbies/sporting interest are: Reading, watching old movies, all sports and exercise and she loves to listen to music, sing, dance (both modern and Polynesian), act and write short stories and poetry.
Favourite food: French Fries
Past jobs: Mdifficult and unusual was being a construction worker helping to build an orphanage in Tijuna, Mexico.
Personal motto: To whom much is given, much is required.

Diamond head

Hawaii is a lot like going on a safari. Both have a big three of must sees.

On O'ahu you have Pearl Harbor, the North Shore and Diamond Head. Arngee made it to all three. Here he is taking in the sun inside the crater.

Pearl Harbor

Things seem to have worked out, but I am not sure if this will happen daily while in Syracuse. So hear goes!


Pearl Habor was a must stop while on O'ahu. Since a candid of Arngee would be highly inappropriate on the memorial, we settled for a photo op out front.

As touristy as it gets!

Mark, Arngee and I partook in the island tradition of a luau. Make sure you say luau not lua as that is a bathroom!

Germaine's Luau is little more than Vegas gone Hawaiin! Entertaining, plenty of food, think the $1 buffets of Vegas.

Other words of note. Pupu is appetizers, pipi is beef. Having a party and serving pupu and pipi is common in Hawaii!

Laeahi

A Sunday whale watch cruise netted little more than some spinner dolphins, flying fish, a cruise from Aloha Tower to Koko Head and some great views of Laeahi.

Named Laeahi by the ancient Hawaiians, the most famous volcanic crater in the world is Diamond Head, located on the South-east Coast of O'ahu at the end of Waikiki overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The name meant "brow of the tuna" and looking at the silhouette of the crater from Waikiki, you can see the resemblance. The current name came was given to the crater by British sailors in the 1800's. When they first saw the crater at a great distance, the calcite crystals in the lava rock appeared to glimmer in the sunlight. The sailors mistakenly thought there must be diamonds in the soil.

And that is the Hawai'i lesson of the day.

Hawaiian Pilgrimage

The Dole Plantation! Can you hear the harps playing in the background?

Arngee will be traveling to the Hawaiian islands for the next few days, taking in the sun and the local citrus!

Look for Arngee's Adventures in the Islands when he returns.

Acid trip or lunch at Lynn's?

While in Louisville, Arngee and friend made it to a Louisville landmark, Lynn's Paradise Cafe. It is a little bit gift shop, little bit personal art project and a whole lot of good food!

Mascot meets mascot

Lots of people have told me that an orange makes a pretty stupid mascot. That an orange would not instill fear in the opposing team! Well, I have always said nay to that!

And then, I received a banana slug that is the mascot for University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC). A slug! They do not even move fast! You could pelt the opposing team with oranges, but have you ever thrown a slug? They are soft, they would not hurt all that much and only if you got someone in the eye, I understand the slime they produce can be an irritant.

I have researched best I can to see if the slug has a name. The best I uncovered was they are called the Fighting Banana Slugs. Fighting?! I guess the one admirable quality about slugs that I know is if you ever find them in your garden, if you place a shallow dish with beer in it, they will be attracted to it and eventually drown when they climb in for a sip! That's right, they love beer so much, they will drown in it. They cannot help themselves!

A slug I say!