Life is good.
Dad keeps surfing at the north shore, after a great summer on the south shore. Today was for longboarding at Leftovers, and Thursday found him in the big stuff at Pipeline on a boogie board. What an island! Oahu kicks ass on other areas of planet earth. Think of us when the snow blows down your neck.
Shari did a turn as a sports announcer for the waterpolo championship, which you can see by clicking here:
http://iws.punahou.edu/dept/it/streams/boyswaterpolo2008/
We are all very excited that Obama won the election. We are big supporters for many reasons, one of which is that he went to our school here, Punahou.
Jack is having a blast at Vassar. He is on the swim team, and he did well in breast stroke in yesterday's meet. He helped Obama win Pennsylvania by giving 3 days of his fall break to going door to door in Bethlehem to encourage voters. He even got to use his Spanish for that!
On election day he volunteered at the polls and even made the paper:
WAPPINGERS FALLS — In the Wappingers Junior High School gymnasium, voters have been arriving steadily throughout the day.
"People were here at 5:50 lined up," said Jack Smart, an election inspector and freshman at Vassar College. Four Vassar students were working the polls here as part of an outreach program to get young people more involved in the voting process.
Jay is on the varsity waterpolo team, an honor for a sophomore. He doesn't play much, but he's paying his dues in hopes of playing more next year and his senior. He loves it and works very hard. He also rocks on the guitar now and is getting better than Dad.
Sierra and Dad yelled and cried on election night. Sierra had a piano recital, and according to her teacher she is wonderful. We already knew that, though. She reads and writes very well and loves to hang out with Dad's sixth graders after school.
Life is good.
