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Halloween is easily the greatest of the big North American holidays - EASILY. Granted, I’m not a big fan of the other holidays, so it wasn’t a very close race. Tonight’s going to be jam-packed, since Em and I have a lot of places to go and people to see, and most of it in costume. We already did a couple of costume parties on Saturday, and here’s a pic someone took of us at the first one. There’s Dracula (me), and his bride (my bride), and the other four people all used to be co-workers of mine. Kelly, in the blue dress, used to be my boss - right up until the company she owned was bought up by the company I work for now.

This reminds me that I’m *way* behind in my Gallery photo-uploading, but I might actually get a chance to catch up on some of that this weekend. Might. First, I’ve got to get done here at work (break’s over!), get home, and put on my Solar Bear costume. No rest for the wicked, the undead, or the solar bears tonight.

There were a few earthquakes this morning on/near the Big Island - one with a magnitude of 6.6. The good news is that we’re on Kauai, and we slept right through it. We didn’t even know there’d been a quake until this afternoon, when a shopkeeper asked us if we’d felt it. Power’s been out on a couple of the islands, but here on Kauai everything seems fine. CNN seems to be hyping this thing very heavily, but we haven’t heard of any serious injuries (much less fatalities) resulting from the quakes. More updates later, but right now we want to go swimming before it gets dark.

It’s 22:15 Hawaii time, and we’re back in our hotel room on Kauai. Today (Saturday, October 14th) is Em’s birthday! Early this afternoon we took a helicopter ride out to an otherwise-inaccessible waterfall pool for a little dip. Huge fun, even though it was pouring by the time we made the return flight. I’ve got a lot more to write about, and more pictures to upload, but that’ll have to wait. We’re on vacation, and it’s almost time for bed.