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Here are some clips of video from our trip to Maui and Oahu. We went to Maui first – here is footage of a relaxing lunch at a golf course clubhouse.

In Oahu, we visited the Cultural Center and I filmed this short clip of the Samoans trying to flip their paddler off their boat during one show.

After the shows and touring around the Center, we had a luau and learned a phenomenal new song we sang for the rest of the trip: Pearly Shells.

This past Saturday a group of friends (old and new) invited me on their evening tour of Historic Ballard’s points of interest. This being my first “Pub Crawl,” I was unfamiliar with the concept and didn’t quite dress exactly right for the occasion. Although I nailed the jeans (which was the appropriate attire for a Ballard pub crawl, I was later informed) I failed miserably in the shoe department. I went for “cute” when I should have been going for “appropriate for traveling long distances on foot.” In any event, I made the half mile walk to our first destination – The Jolly Roger – a friendly neighborhood pirate hang out, where we enjoyed dinner and cider, and where I surreptitiously tried to copy down the treasure map that was the floor of the establishment.

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On March 23-27 we traveled to Phoenix, AZ as part of my Christmas present from my parents – a post-graduation trip to see Josh Groban in concert. While there, we also visited the old Western town of Rawhide, enjoyed the pool, waterslides, dinner with friends, lunch at Tommy Bahama’s, and took in an M’s game during Spring Training. It was a blast!

In a stunning upset, five students from the UW School of Law Group 2, Class of 2007, climbed to victory against Bone Cancer only weeks ago, scaling 73 stories of the Columbia Tower. Although the UW students only won the battle, they found it to have a buoying affect. “We’re aware that this is a war and that true victory will take some time,” one student explained, “and although winning the war won’t happen overnight, we’re happy to be able to fight and we’ll work hard to win every battle we can.”