My 2 happy little boys are chasing chickens. I came up with a killer-strategy… I told them that if they could catch one I would give them 5,000 yen bill (50 dollars)!!!!! Well,,,, I knew it would be mission-impossible, but I thought that money would motivate them to run around for a while, which would allow them to waste some of their incredible energy. But indeed money was such a big motivation and later-on, it was hard to make them stop and leave the park as they kept running like crazy after those poor chicken…! This place is Hanauma Bay, a precious natural reserve park where the animal life live is really spectacular. You can snorkel, swim in the coral and discover plentiful of unique fishes, actually 20% of them exist only in Hawaii. We visited one of my husband’s best friend, security at the park, and President Obama and his family were there with ton of special security around. Talking about the Obama family, they actually celebrated midnight at the same neighborhood beach as we did last night. So much police cars were touring around, it was incredible! A group of about 50 people from Tokyo are spending new Year holidays in Honolulu. We celebrated all together at our Tokyo-friends, Hilary and Chris Wendel. They own a spectacular home on Kailua beach, same beach as the one where the Obama family is staying. Fireworks were exploding everywhere last night in the island, the sound was like the Pearl Harbor bombing all over again…. Hawaii it is the only state in America that allows people to do individual fireworks all night long. The smoke in the island was massive and my eyes were burning for hours afterwards. I took this picture at the Sea Life Park, when my boys were playing with a dolphin. They spent 3 full days at the park learning about sea animals and they loved it! This was the grand final… playing with a dolphin! Sugoi!