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Hello and welcome to 2012. We hope everyone had a happy holiday season and had time to spend with family, friends and loved ones.
It’s been a while since we spoke with everyone and it’s nice to take some time off from Forex trading. We did, however, have people inquiring about what we did over the holiday season. First off, thanks for asking. We actually packed up and decided to brave the crowds at Disneyland during Christmas. We heard the horror stories about it being absolutely shoulder-to-shoulder busy, but we had some family going so we decided to meet them there.
Christmas Eve was really nice. We went to California Adventure Park and rode the most daring roller coaster both parks had to offer –California Screamin’ – with absolutely no waiting in line. People were getting off and getting back in line and going right back on the ride. For those who haven’t ridden or seen California Screamin’ – it starts off from a dead stop and shoots you out using magnets. If you don’t want to ride, there is a pretty cool place above on the pier you can watch them take off from. The same was true for Disneyland. Wait times were unbelievably short so I thought to myself, “Great, maybe we’ll luck out this year and we can come back tomorrow (ie. Christmas Day) with no crowds.”
Of course, we know how this story turns out. I was drawn back by the amount of people there were on Christmas Day. I suppose Christmas Eve is when families get together at grandma’s house because on Christmas Day they were all at Disneyland. It was extremely busy and once it turned dark and the parades started, you might as well forget about trying to get around the park.
The same held true the following two days – it was busy and seemed like the crowd was getting larger as we approached New Years. But, overall we had a great time. It was nice to spend it with family and friends.
This past week, CES (Consumer Electronics Show) came through Las Vegas and we were lucky enough to attend. We’ve been attending this show for the past three years and even though the crowds seem to slightly dwindle each year, the technology that ‘s coming out sure isn’t. This year’s biggest theme was the 3D section, where we saw a booth-to-booth 3D wall display. I’m not much of a 3D person yet, but it was interesting and we’ll see how it goes when more programming is built specifically for 3D. In the other section of the convention hall, it seemed like accessories (especially earphones) were the major product this year. From Skull Candy to iFrogz, it seemed like every other booth was pushing earphones.
We’ve posted a gallery of our time at CES and we’re also, by request, going to start putting some feature pictures up. I’ve had people ask if I was going to AVN this year because they’d love to see those pictures, however, I still have no plans to attend this year – but, if I do, you can rest assured I’ll bring you the inside scoop. We’ll hopefully get out enough to keep posting some nice feature pictures.
Also, yesterday was an especially important day because it’s my son’s birthday. I posted a picture of him as a newborn on my then FX Street blog and time has indeed flown by. He’s now in Kindergarten and growing up very quickly. We’re very proud of him and all he’s accomplished so far and we hope he continues to grow and stay the loving, funny and caring person he is growing into.
We love you Kahaku.
