Welcome to the 2011 edition of our summer tour! Today was the first day of our July tour in Japan and we started with a private promotional seminar with Hawaii Tourism Japan. It was really nice to get back on stage and performing after my two weeks off. We saw a lot of our good [READ MORE]

Aloha!!!! We arrived safely to Yokohama late last night and it turns out the flight wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. The typhoon passed and the didn’t affect our flight at all. We got in about 10:00pm Japan time and I ended up getting to sleep around 1am which was 6am Hawaii [READ MORE]

Last month, we were featured along with Jake & Bruce Shimabukuro for the Aloha Street online campaign supporting Japan. Click the image below to see the full article.

So much worldwide support for Japan! This time from Chinese celebrities, and very well done! This is the translation I found on the video, is it correct?: Be not defeated by the rain, Nor let the wind prove your better. Succumb not to the snows of winter. Nor be bested by the heat of summer. [READ MORE]

Hello everyone! We returned home this weekend to family and friends and had a great mothers day celebration! First of all, I want to say thank you to everyone who came out to watch us in japan, it truly was one of the best japan trips I’ve had. Japan needs to smile more these days [READ MORE]

Aloha, everyone!  We arrived back home yesterday afternoon to gray skies and lots of rain, and it actually felt colder here in Hawai’i than in Japan!  Of course, the puppies went NUTS when they saw us … especially when Jazzie saw her Nick!  Old man Buster just sort trotted up and nudged us with his [READ MORE]

It all began with me waking up to prepare for my last day of class EVER. I’ll be graduating in May so with our Japan trip this week I will miss the last days of school. Little did I know that my joy of being out of school forever would be countered by a crazy [READ MORE]

Aloha, everyone!  Nick & I are off to Japan today get a jump start on our Golden Week tour with HTJ.  We’re going up early because we plan to go up to Sendai and Miyagi prefecture with some of the HTJ staff to visit the evacuation shelters and try to bring some aloha from Hawai’i [READ MORE]

Boy, I’ve got so many things to do today … two meetings and a zillion (yes, a zillion!) errands to run!  Nick and I leave for Japan in a couple of days so I gotta get off my butt and start getting my s–t together.  Should have started doing a lot of this stuff weeks [READ MORE]

Another nice, quiet Manoa morning … just finished a breakfast of eggs (over easy), toasted bagel, and of course,  a mug of steaming hot Dunkin’ Donuts coffee!  Now that my stomach is full, I can start getting ready for another busy day here in the land of aloha!  The puppies seem particularly happy this morning [READ MORE]