Larry Memmott's Blog

After the surgery I spent my time running back and forth to the hospital and trying to keep Aliciya entertained. I quickly found that the best way of keeping her happy was to take her to the big Borders Bookstore one metro stop away. There were stuffed animals to play with, and when she got […]

Since I didn’t get any blogging done in Washington, here I am playing catch-up again. Anyway, we left Hawaii on September 15 for Washington to have Tatyana’s brain tumor removed. It was a pretty stressful time, but as you will see, we had some fun, too. Tatyana didn’t have her appointment with the brain surgeon […]

We had a good time.  Tanya says, surprised, I think, that Manila Ocean Park is actually better.  Still, we had fun, and I got this fun shot.

On Tuesday we decided to drive around West Maui. It’s a beautiful drive, with wonderful views of the coastline. We took a picnic lunch and stopped a couple of times along the way. The most spectacular stop was at the Nakalele Blow Hole. Of course, with Aliciya there and Tatyana ill, we didn’t hike down […]

In the afternoon we went for a walk down on Front Street in Lahaina. We parked next to Banyan Park, a whole park filled by one tree. Then we had some ice cream and went shopping.

After a short stopover in Honolulu Airport we were on Maui at about 2:30 in the afternoon. Aliciya had slept well on the plane, but Tatyana and I hardly slept at all. We did a little shopping for groceries and such in Wailuku and then were off to our apartment. We are staying in the […]

July 17, 2008 Christina, Alexandra and I spent the day diving on Japanese World War II wrecks.  It was tremendous.  Unfortunately, someone failed to get us underwater cameras, so we have no photos. As the U.S. Navy prepared for the liberation of the Philippines from the Japanese, one mapping officer noticed that some of the […]

July 16, 2008 This is one of my favorite photos from that day. One thing Dive Link really did up big time was the lunches. They were full hot meals, even on the beach. A bit too much for me, really.

August 19, 2008 My beautiful Tatyana celebrated her birthday (she’s 18, I think) on August 19. While I’m catching up with the new blog, I’ll put in a few photos from that day. We went out for Indian food to celebrate.

July 14, 2008   Alexandra, Christina and William visited us in the Philippines in July and August.  We had a great time.  We traveled to the Calamian Islands to do some tourism and a little diving, since Christina and Alexandra got their PADI diving certifications when they were here last year. We stayed at Dive Link […]