Choke Good Fun at Kaka'ako Park

The day started with me and Wendell going to Servco Toyota to look for a new car for me. We did end up getting a Rav4! Yay!! The process took so long though that I ended being half an hour late for an outing Erick and I had planned for tonight at Kakaako Park. I hate being late.

By the time I arrived Erick and Hiromi had already set up their tripods and were ready to capture sunset pictures. Marvin, CQ and Kaori were waiting for me by the parking lot. Although Marvin couldn't stay long, he still waited for me. What a pal, yeah!! One of the first things on tonight's agenda was to try and continue my quest for capturing the bursting balloon on camera. It wouldn't have been the same without Marvin.

We hurriedly filled a few balloons with water.

Several from-the-top approaches never seemed to work.
For this attempt Marvin tried a smaller balloon with a from-the-side approach.

Hoooo hooooo!!! Our best result ever!

One more try . . .

EVEN BETTER!!! YAHOOOOOOO!!!!! Thank you so much for coming, Marvin. Sorry you got all wet, and sorry to keep you waiting.

Marvin had to leave shortly thereafter, but Kaori provided me with more shooting ops with her bubble-making skills.

CQ and Kaori said that the secret to making good bubbles is in the dish-washing liquid. They said you have to use Dawn . . . um . . . something about the blue one.

As it got darker we tried our hand at light-drawing photography. It took me awhile to get going. At first I couldn't get the autofocus to work. It was too dark. Then I couldn't get the timing right.

Hiromi turned out to be a really good light drawer. This was one of her first attempts. Light drawing is hard because the drawer uses a flashlight to draw in the air and cannot actually see any picture. The picture is only captured by the camera.

As she got used to it, she got better and better.

Then Erick got the idea to fire his flash using second-curtain sync (something like that) where your flash fires at the end of the shot, so that we could capture Hiromi in the picture along with her drawing.

Previous pictures were taken facing the ocean. We turned our cameras around so that we could capture the vog-strouded city lights with Hiromi and her light drawing.

Soooo neat, hah!

Here's Erick's creation.

This is suppose to be a star. Hahahahaha!!
We finally packed up at about 8:00 and met up again at Asahi Grill for dinner. This is Hiromi's Chopped Steak. She said that it was very good.
Erick's Oxtail Soup. It was kinda intriguing watching him eat it. He had this system where he would put some meat, a little bit of parsley, ginger, and soup onto his spoon and then eat. Then he would put some rice, some parsley, ginger and soup onto the spoon and then eat that. It was mesmerizing.
This is my Miso Ramen. It was good except the miso was under all the noodles. I thought they had gotten the order wrong until I reached the bottom of the bowl. I still liked it though.