so now it is tuesday. my neck got better. i like to think it's because i attempted orthobionomy/strain-counterstrain techniques on it, but actually, i think it's just because i slept in a more or less balanced position... not that we've been getting any more sleep! aiden, oddly enough, suffers from high fevers and coughs that only express themselves at night. lynn worries that he may have "croup" (a friend has a daughter with it, and the internet provides easy access to all kinds of nightmarish scenarios). so we kept bathing him (our standard remedy for high fevers: it's a somewhat paradoxical, "orthobionomy" judo approach to headaches- that is, soak a fever in lukewarm/warm water, in order to put the internal "fever reaction" at ease... also, to absorb excessive temperature through the increased surface area contact of the water... whatever, it works! temporarily, anyway). and because he was coughing, lynn at one point turned on a hot shower in the bathroom, and filled it with steam... meantime, i searched the internet and found out about juvenile onset still's disease, a joint disorder (believed autoimmune) characterized by nocturnal fevers (recurrent) and transient rashes... had nothing to do with aiden, but at 2-3 in the morning, desperate for rest and for a "cure," anything will seem plausible.
today we went to the maui ocean center, the new museum out here. it was pretty cool. they have a pretty impressive shark tank, and what was neat was the diver (feeding the sharks) interacted and answered questions posed by the audience, via a speaker. there was this large stingray with a wingspan at least as wide as the diver was tall who kept feeding right off the vertical wall of glass ("they're suction feeders," explained the diver). stingrays look kind of like they have a "happy face" on their undersides...
and there was this smaller spotted eagle ray that kept getting too aggressive, spiraling around the diver, trying to get direct access to his feed pouch...
... tiger sharks, hammer heads, black tips, white tips...
other things that were interesting (to me) were the octopus (which changed color INSTANTLY when i put my hand near the glass), and the turtle display... we heard that there were three types of turtles common in hawaiian waters: green sea turtles, hawkbills, and leatherbacks. green sea turtles used to be endangered, but they are becoming more and more common (after all, even i've seen a few of them at the beach, almost ran into one underwater). hawkbills are endangered not because they are hunted for food (they eat poisonous sponges, and thus are inedible) but for their shells, which are "shingled." and leatherbacks, the rarest, but sometimes visible in deep ocean waters- well, the speaker said that they can grow as large as volkswagon beetles! and weigh 1,500 pounds!
willow and aiden found the jellyfish the most fascinating part of the aquarium... and i do admit, they are really hypnotic. the tank was sort of like a large lava lamp. maybe someday i will put a column tank like that in, with live jellyfish... and when i want to be dr. evil, i will push my nemeses into the tank and watch as they get stung and needled to death! mwahahahaha... (sorry)
we ate lunch at bale, we had a couple of bowls of pho. great stuff. especially when you feel kinda under the weather...
so we're back in our room now taking it easy... kids watching tmbg here come the 1 2 3's. it's actually fun to sing the songs with them, and, on occasion, dance. yes, dance. i think dancing skills are passed on genetically. aiden dances instinctively like a dork (my influence). willow dances like a swimming fairy.
okay, so i have to stop being a wallflower now.
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