page 1: hawaii pictures
the story: a few of my friends/classmates tried out for the 2002 ACDA Western Division High School honor choir, and all the people in my choir [except one... it would have been fun if katie came with us] who tried out made it. well, in an honor choir, you rehearse practically all day, so we had to go to the convention. and the convention was in hawaii! =) so... here is the story, through pictures [although lots of funny details, you know the kind that make memories, are left out]. enjoy!
the players: me [hehe you'll know who i am through the pictures], leslie [tall blonde girl... there are two tall blonde girls but leslie's in most of the pictures], laura [shorter girl, light brown hair], clarisse [other tall blonde girl], cymbaline (cym) [tall, blondish/brown hair], daniel [the guy... LOL he's like the only guy in most of these pictures], and occasionally amy [medium height, a bit darker hair than laura's] and... well i'll save the last picture to tell you what i was going to say. =) btw--cym and daniel don't go to my school, or each other's... but everyone else goes to my school. and we all live in the same school district.
Laura, Leslie and me wait for our plane at LAX. It was like, 7/8-ish in the morning and it had already been a long day, but we were going to Hawaii! Isn't that worth it? =)
After the welcome ceremony we had with the great hula dancers, I took this picture of the sunset 'cause it's so pretty! =) After the sun set, we had our first rehearsal... that was awesome. =)
a full day of rehearsals... but we managed to sneak in some fun!
Here we are, at breakfast (what a joke, there was like Danishes, cereal, fruit and that's about it) before our first full day of rehearsals. From left... Daniel, Amy and Robby's mom, Amy, Clarisse, Cymbaline, Laura, Leslie, and me.

Doesn't this picture look like a postcard? LOL... this is us eating lunch at the beach, actually, to be more specific, a picture of Clarisse, Cym and Leslie eating lunch at the beach. [I was eating too, but not at the time I took the picture. =)]
Here is Leslie, making a moat to her little sandcastle. [Oh and those are Laura's feet sticking into the picture... and the "hot" old lady in the background LOL]
Here are Leslie and Laura, having fun in the Hawaii sun!
When we weren't singing, and we weren't at the beach, we were here. The International Marketplace is just that... a marketplace, almost. Lots of little stands and shops around, VERY fun. I got a dress [you'll see it in friday's pictures... it's the pink/white halter dress] for $15, REAL gold earrings for $18, a silver ring/toe ring set for $15 [that was real too... but I lost the ring =( I have the toe ring but right now I don't know where it is hehe], sandals for my [now ex-]boyfriend for $15 [and they were quiksilver sandals too!], and some other fun stuff there. really good stuff for really cheap! no wonder we loved it so much! =) and by the way, this is [l-r] Daniel, Clarisse, Cym, Leslie, me, and Laura.
We ended our day with dinner at this really cool restaurant that revolved so you could get a really good view of Waikiki. The food was really good too--mahi-mahi, yum. I would have a picture of my food here but I didn't take a picture of it, though Leslie did... hee hee =) Okay, so these are: Cym, Daniel, Laura, me, Leslie, and Clarisse.
we got the afternoon off and went sightseeing... we went to hanama bay [no pictures of this, sorry] and... pearl harbor!
So this is us sightseeing! Okay... this is Mr. Lutz, our choir director, trying to look cool hehehe... Mr. Holm, Daniel's choir director [and the father of one of the people in our choir], Daniel, me, Laura, Cym, and Leslie.
The memorial was really eye-opening and enlightening. There was this wall with all the names of the people who died... each name was probably as big as the text you're reading now... or maybe a bit bigger... and they filled up a 25-foot high wall. really sad. =( anyway, this is Leslie and me here on the memorial.
the big day... concert day!
Right before the buses left, we squeezed in a pic of us sitting in the lobby. [It's a nice lobby! =)] Bottom row: Daniel, Amy [our Chamber Singers president] and Laura... top row: Cym, me, and Leslie
Here's our group on the bus to our performance venue. The guy on the very right is Chris, the person Laura befriended one morning at breakfast... or something LOL... anyway this is Clarisse, Daniel, me, Leslie, Laura, Cym, and Chris.
Okay so this is me right before we went on to perform. (Daniel's dad took this picture.) The girl next to me in the picture, coincidentally, is named Denise too. Isn't that weird?

This was right after we got back from performing. I think this is a really cool pic... Cym still wants a copy LOL. Our first real moment of freedom... no curfew... yay! [l-r]Laura, me, Clarisse, Cym, Daniel and Leslie
Okay, so after our concert when we had nothing to do, we decided we were going to go look around and see stuff! So we did. This is in front of a really pretty fountain and we all decided we were going to take a picture here. (This was the night all the fun stuff happened, when we were out at the beach at 11:30 at night and this cop thought we were drunk, it was great. =D)
it's me! hehe... yeah this is in our hotel room while we were packing...
This was a really cool spot at the beach that Laura had to take a picture at. =) Daniel and Leslie are on the left, and Cym, Laura, me and Amy are on the right.

This is the only picture I have of ALL the people [students] who went to Hawaii. Cym and Daniel are the only two that don't go to our school, but all the rest of us are in the same choir. Front row, l-r: Robby [Amy's little brother], Derek, Amy and Daniel; back row, l-r: Leslie, Laura, me, and Cym. [Clarisse had an earlier flight 'cause she came earlier than the rest of us... so she was already on her way home.]
So that's all! Where would you like to go now?
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