A new day at the summit, yesterday was a lot about SEO – Search Engine Optimization, in a nutshell how search engines like google and yahoo will find your page. Today was more about web design, and why design matters, as well as marketing.
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Yahoo! Merchant Summit
Came home around 10pm last night, had to get my things together and jump into bed so I could head back to the airport at 7am so I could catch a flight up to San Jose.
Since we are using Yahoo! for our store at work, my boss thought it was a good idea for me to attend the Yahoo! Merchant Summit.
I like to spread my stuff out, and I got a bunch of crap from Yahoo! that I could spread out on my bed!
Women/Wahine
I only got s few hours of sleep and wasn’t feeling so hot when I got to the airport. The toilet signs definitely put a smile on my face though, but it made me wish I didn’t have to leave.
The Dole Plantation
I parked the car last night at the hotel, in a spot where I apparently was not allowed to. I got I warning on the window that if I didn’t move my car immediately, it would get towed. And they were not kidding around, I couldn’t even remove the sticker!
The note on the car aside, it’s always nice to live on the beach, even if it just for a weekend.
I took the highway about 30 minutes up north and stopped by the Dole Plantation. I LOVE pineapple, its my favorite fruit so I was uber excited to check it out!
Started off with having breakfast, a pineapple whip, topped with even more pineapple!
Then I strolled around the plantation, I had no idea there were so many different types of pineapples.
They had a pond with fish in the middle of the plantation.
It got pretty crazy when we tossed them some fish food.
I’m a pineapple!
I took the Pineapple Express around the plantation, and got to learn a bunch about how the whole thing started.
They also had a garden you could stroll around and learn about the Hawaiian flora and vegetable. Here is a rainbow tree, nice and colorful!
Pineapples are a part of the Bromeliad family, who knew?
They also had carambola trees, my second favorite fruit! I was so tempted to pick a fruit from the tree, but I didnt want to get into trouble.
After the Dole plantation, we hit the north sore, awesome for surf, snorkel or just bumming around.
We came back to the beach cottage, wrapped our stuff together and took off to spend the last night in Waikiki.
Pearl Harbor
I woke up this morning in a cottage by Barbers Point Beach on Oahu, Hawaii, not too bad!
I was so excited and walked down to feel the temperature of the water straight from bed, without even paying a visit to the restroom!
After a short stroll on the beach, I took the car into Honolulu to check out Pearl Harbor. 
I love history and have always been a huge fan of national history museums and such and was excited to get to visit the Pearl Harbor. I studied the 2nd world war in school, but the main focus was whatever the europeans was involved in, not so much what was going on between the Americans and and Asians. 
You could pay $10 and get on to t submarine, I didnt think it was worth it and just looked at it fro a distance instead.
The memorial for everyone that passed away in the Pearl Harbor attack.
There was a lot of construction and “coming soon” going on, so it wasnt as good as I had hoped, but they had build a really cool memorial over the sunken battle ship USS Arizona that you got to take short boat ride out to.
I thought it would be lame, just some kind of monument with a bunch of names, but it turned out the ship was still laying there underneath you with some parts still sticking up from the ocean, super cool!
The USS Arizona was huge, the red circle is the end of the ship, about 1/3rd of the ship is still behind me.
There is still oil leaking from the ship, I wonder why they cant clean that up, but I’m sure theres a reasonable exclamation for it.
Back in shore, I thought these roots were interesting!
Came back to the beach cottage and jumped in the ocean before it was time to get ready for a night of party.
Vacation!
Heading to Hawaii for the first time, super excited! Not exactly sure were I was heading… got invited to a wedding at the “Honolulu island” which I now know is called Ohau. Started off, of course with a beer at the airport.
Bye Bye LA!
Hey Man,
I just shredded some tissue paper while you were out, is that ok?
Sunday
Started off as a lazy Sunday, cooked breakfast and had friends over for Mimosas.
We were gonna have omelets, but it didnt turn out the way we wanted so we made fancy scrambled eggs instead.
After some chill at home we took off to the Getty Museum.
Ive never been a huge fan of the art at the Getty, not my cup of tea, but I would love to have one of these to lounge on in the living room!
The view from the Getty is stunning. It was a polluted LA today, but we could still see most of the city.
Last Thursday at the Pier
Tonight was the last week of the Thursday summer concerts at the pier. We had planned to go down as usual with wine and picnic, but it was cold today so we just strolled on the pier and then went for dinner on 3rd street instead.
