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Chris, Tanya, & Chase
A Teacher, a Traveler, a Yogini, a Caregiver, a Wife, and a New Mommy
About Me
- Tanya Mau-Halsall
- I am a 33 year old elementary school teacher, born and raised in Honolulu, Hawai'i. After living in Seattle and overseas in Thailand for a total of 12 years, I returned to Hawai'i to help take care of my father, who was diagnosed with ALS, a.k.a. Lou Gherig's Disease, in October 2004. After 2 1/2 years of watching his body slowly decline, my father earned his wings April 2007 and is no longer suffering. The past couple of years was spent sharing valuable time together and making more memories, as my father got to "walk" me down the aisle, though he was a couple months shy of seeing the birth of his first grandchild. And now, with new life, the journey continues with baby Chase, as I learn how to balance teaching, marriage, and being a mom. This online journal is a way for me to express myself, through my love of traveling, photography, and writing, while keeping in touch with family and friends.
Blog Archive
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- Busloads of novice monks arrived as we were visiti...
- Young novice monks walk through the beautiful gard...
- I'm constantly amazed when you can walk down to th...
- A Buddha statue near the temple caves.
- A newly constructed serpent head temple in Chiang ...
- Palong hilltribe children hang out in the shade, a...
- Our tour guide, Dao, shows us a bible that has bee...
- A Palong woman by a house.
- A precious picture of a 92 year old grandmother fr...
- The kitchen, with a coal stove, and pet dog, insid...
- A traditional house from the Palong tribe.
- Women from the Akha hilltribe come over to show us...
- Hilltribe children play jacks, with their buffaloe...
- A family of little Wilburs play under a house.
- We drove by a household having an afternoon tradit...
- Garbage cans in a town near Chiang Mai. (Since my...
- The baby elephant raises the flag...
- ...and elephants can paint!
- Nina and I pose for our picture before we trek thr...
- Every now and then our elephants would stop for a ...
- Our driver sits on the neck of the elephant and re...
- Walking through the jungle...Geez that rope around...
- Mom and Gary are led by their elephant into the ri...
- Nina and Tanya say "Cheese!" in our lovely river h...
- Phu with his special goggles ready to play with hu...
- Thoughts From Thailand
- Waihe'e Tunnel
- Jay and Dad going into Waihe'e Tunnel
- Brother Jason and his girlfriend Toni at Waihe'e T...
- Stepsisters Lindsey and Whitney, and Bernice and D...
- A boogie boarder checks out the surf
- Footprints in the surf at Sandy's Beach
- One of the lookout viewpoints by Sandy's
- Rabbit Island
- On the road to Sandy's.
- Give And You Shall Receive
- Each Day Brings New Challenges
- ALS Seminar
- Picture Perfect Drive
- The sun hitting the mountain near Sandy Beach.
- Oops, I was wrong...
- Wednesday, 25 May 2005I think today is Wednesday. ...
- Find Out More About ALS or Lou Gherig's Disease
- Dad's 58th Birthday
- Dad's birthday dinner at Sam Choy's restaurant
- Dad and Bernie
- Dad blows out the candles as he turned 58 on May 2...
- Home Sweet Home
- Christina and her family on the Yokota Air Force B...
- From the airplane window, flying home over a beaut...
- Hawai'i Bound
- Watermelon in (I haven't had solid food yet, so I'...
- Watermelon out.
- What the hell is this? An Anne Geddes photo shoot?...
- Uncle Nick and Max in Japan
- I'm so happy I could just drool all over myself!
- Daddy, I love jammin' to this karaoke stuff!
- Grandpa, I think I got something up my nose!
- They are cuties.
- Hmm, let's check this little baby out.
- So cute!
- You are younger, but you could be my future boyfri...
- So, When Do The Spits Play The Swallows?!
- A Kirin beer vending machine on the streets of Tok...
- Tanya and Max on the train ride home.
- Beer man walking by as the sun sets behind the bas...
- We went to an Akult Swallows baseball game, as And...
- The Swallows mascots after the game
- Beer keg girls walk around selling beer during the...
- Michelle, Ricky's girlfriend, holds Max as we watc...
- Andrew catches a fly ball (and runs over some kids...
- Japanese fans go wild
- An MTV interview on the streets of Harajuku, Tokyo.
- A pringles game in the gaming place
- Max flirting
- The popular photo booths in Tokyo
- School girls taking their photo
- Andrew and his sword.
- Stina spinnin'
- Aichi Expo, Nagoya, Japan
- Sharing sake with people next to us.
- About to eat cow tongue. Yum!
- Eating Korean Barbeque in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
- McDonald's in Tokyo
- Walking by a shop in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan.
- Ise
- Teaching and Visiting Koyasan
- From Tokyo to Kudoyama, Wakayama, Japan
- Leaving Bangkok for Tokyo
- Luang Prabang, Laos
- Trekking in Laos
- Weekend at the Beach
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