JAPAN - KOREA - HAWAII 1989

This was our second clogging trip and first foreign trip.

Mom planned and managed the whole thing will a bit of help from her friend Dave Wilkey (below). He met us there for a day or two but Mom, for the most part, got us around Japan, Korea, and Hawaii on her own. She wasn't even 30! How did she do that?

I remember the trip for me, everything included, was $400.00! What a deal.
We stayed in homes with families in Japan and hotels the rest of the time.

(Below) My Grandma has been involved with AAC the longest. She started taking/teaching with my mom and IS STILL TEACHING in Hurricane! Her beginners are amazing. Just yesterday she told me she wants to teach another year and that I should start advertising for her :) Gordon Stirland went on almost every clogging trip until he died in December 2000. Germany was his last AAC trip.

We visited some museums and famous sites:

In this performance we were actually campaigning for a Japanese political candidate! We clogged our way down a parade route in about a million degrees and high humidity! Check out Mom leading the way!

This is another performance in Japan.
FYI: This is where our tradition to end each performance with Grand Old Flag Started. At the end of our Japan performance we danced Grand Old Flag and passed out American Flags to the audience. We've ended with GOF ever since!

ON TO HAWAII:

We actually saw some Japanese men hike down to the bay in full business suit attire and strip to their BVDs to go swimming in the ocean. This bay is now closed without permits- I forget the name... it starts with an H though!

We attended a luau at the home of that famous guy in Johnny Lingo and roasted a pig under ground. We also participated in an authentic hukilou (sp???):

"Oh we throw our nets
out into the sea,
and all the little fishes
comma swimming to me..."

(This is in Japan)

P.S. MOM'S CAMERA WAS STOLEN ON THIS TRIP so these are about the only photos we have :( PLEASE, if you have photos from this trip, email them to nhadley@scmiddle.org so we can post them and have a copy!!!!
{This is why we don't have any Korea pics at all = so sad!}

EXCITING MEMORY:

We were staying on the 40-something floor of a highrise in Honolulu when the fire drill sounded. We had to rush down thousands of steps to escape. There were people outside the hotel wearing shower curtains! It was great... it was also a false alarm.

P.S. the next time we went to Hawaii we were there for the Tsunami of '94. I guess we don't have alot of luck with Hawaii. One time we even went during algea season and the water was completely mucked up with green slime.