Hawaii trip, 2007-04-21

I spent most of the day working and playing with Lauren's lovely family.

Lauren and I had breakfast at Grammy's, where she cooked us French toast with Hawaiian sweet bread (extra-sweet! delicious...), and Portuguese sausage. Enjoyed seeing the artwork and all the family keepsakes at Grammy's house.
Then it was on to Donna and Robin's, where Lauren and I helped plant 3 new trees and pull some weeds. We had to be dragged away from our weed buckets after the OCD kicked in ("must ... remove ... ALL ... weeds ...."). After gardening, we had some down-time before heading to the Iolani Family fair for the late afternoon and early evening.

Both Robin and Lauren went to Iolani High, and the fair was a mixture of reunion, community event, and fundraiser as far as I could tell. Robin was in his element, cooking up ribs with his high school classmates in the rib tent. I wish we could have stayed longer, but after snarfing as many ribs as we could, we had to rush away to catch our flight.

The usual whirlwind of baggage, bureaucracy, and bon voyage followed, depositing us safely on a redeye back to San Francisco, and eventually, back home in Strongbadia.

What a trip! I can't wait to visit Hawaii again (hopefully sometime soon).

Aloha.