Covid-19.

Due to the recent world pandemic, Sweet Trade Tattoo will be closed until at least April 30th per the Mayor’s orders.  We appreciate your patience and support.

Moving forward, we will be following all safety guidelines put forth by the industry and State to promote the safest possible environment to tattoo and be tattooed in.  

We will contact all our clients with future appointments and make arrangements with each of you.  We will do our best to make sure we can, at the very least, continue to treat you like ohana.  

We will keep you informed of any changes.

Mahalo, stay safe.

Polynesian Tribal.

I have tattooed for the last few days, mostly bangers, but pretty fun.  I did I this today, and it was pretty fun.

We are debating if we should close the shop down or not for the virus.  It sounds like it is getting pretty serious.  I will keep you all informed as to what we do.

Mahalo, wash your hands.

Anniversary Vacation - Part 2.

Alright, continuing with our pictures and stuff about our vacation.  Remember, this is really our first vacation in so long its a big deal to us. We spent more time doing everything Star Wars we could.  Athena and I are absolutely insane Star Wars fans and we always have been.  We have watched ALL of the Star Wars movies and shows so many times I can’t even begin to count.  We love them for the legend, the story, we love the characters, and we love the heroes.  To me it’s really just modern mythology and its the hero’s tale told over and over, I fucking love Star Wars.  It was so fun to run around Galaxies Edge and just play.  Honestly there was so much to do that our 5 days there were not enough and we would like to go back someday.

Athena dressed up like Ray and went all in character for a day.

Hamming it up in Batuu.

Every time Athena ran into a Star Wars character they talked to her and she froze, like she was star struck and couldn’t speak...froze.  It was pretty funny.

 We made lightsabers in Savi’s Workshop, pretty cool and they are surprisingly strong.  We ran around the park fighting with them all day.

I was surprised by a client of mine that showed up and congratulated us on our anniversary!

Her tattoo healed really nicely too.  Pretty cool surprise to run into a client.  Funny thing, we kept running into people I had tattooed over the years!

We went to the Launch Bay which was really a mini museum of stuff from the movies.  It was pretty cool.  Everything Star Wars in Disney was just fun for us.

 

 

 Athena loves the Falcon!

The Ghost is my favorite ship.

Batuu!

Athena got a hug from Chewbacca.

There is so much more that we did at Disney, And then we went to San Diego for a week.  San Diego just sucks, except the food which was good.  We only went there to visit a friend and see someplace we had not been.  If you are ever thinking about going there just skip it, San Diego really just sucks.
Disney was so much fun, I really didn’t expect to enjoy it hat much and we want to go back someday.
It will be good to get back into the studio tomorrow, do some tattoos and get back into the Island life again.

So there has been some really crazy news about this virus going around in China that is starting to spread all over the US, there were since cases in California while we were at Disney, but everything seemed okay.  Now that we are home, people are kinda freaking out about it.  Crazy world man.

Mahalo.

Anniversary Vacation - Part 1.

This is our first vacation since 2012.  We had planned on taking vacations every 4 years to celebrate our wedding anniversary, but we skipped 2016 to continue to build the business and just took an extended weekend to ourselves.  This trip was well worth it and man did we ever have an amazing time.  We just got back, and I wanted to just blog about it for a second.

The day before we flew off island, I gave Athena a little gift made by one of my clients.  Athena and I have played a game since we met, its about hiding this little stuffed toy hedgehog she calls Humphrey somewhere.  I hide it, she finds it, she hides it, I find it, etc. We put it places where it will be a surprise to find.

She loved the Baby Yoda crochet; mahalo to you mystery client.

  

A baby Yoda and Humphrey

We got to Disney late at night but the bar was still open.  Athena was pretty tired from all the travel.

Disney was absolutely fantastic.  It is really funny, I don’t like theme parks, I don’t go to roller coaster parks or water parks or anything like it and I honestly expected to not really have as good of a time as I did.  I swear to you, every second was amazing and I had a fucking fantastic time.  I really wish we had stayed there for a few more days.  We spent 80% of our time in the Star Wars areas, and we did everything.  

Stormtroopers everywhere!

A Wing Fighter!

X Wing Fighter!

Several times a day they do a show where they start on stage and then go into the park and search for resistance fighters, while the resistance ducks and hides from the first order.  We followed one of the shows through the park and it lasts about an hour. Supper fun!

The Millenium Falcon!  The ride was pretty fun but Athena and I both got a bit motion sick from the digital screen.  We spent the rest of the day just exploring Batuu.

Batu is huge!

Everywhere you look is filled with stuff, I have way too many pictures to post.

The new ride “Rise of Resistance” was probably the best ride I have ever been on.  Most rides have a line where you wait, but for this, the line was part of the show.  The entire time we were in line it felt like we were on the ride, and it was in a couple stages where you are in the show and they move you from area to area as the story progresses.  The entire ride was about 25 min or so, and it was a amazing.  We were able to get passes to the ride twice, so all of these pics are from my second run through, and well I was more just experiencing it then taking pics so...

 You start off waiting in line that is a huge resistance tunnel full of crates to scan and interact with on your smart phone.  It is crazy awesome.

I love the Resistance computers everywhere!

You then reach the start of the ride where BB 88 and Ray transmitting in a hologram tell you that we need to escape Batuu because the First Order is coming to get us.

From there we left and entered a shuttle to fly us off planet and we were attacked by the First Order.

It really felt and looked like we were in the shuttle taking off and flying into space!

This room was a gigantic ship hanger.

The First Order put us all into groups of 4, and the rest of the ride begins!

The ride was really fun, and it made the entire Star Wars Batuu adventure really fucking awesome.

Okay, more to come on part two, there are going to be some really longs posts.

Mahalo.