Hawaii Day 3: Hakkei!!

With the wedding completed, it was time for some eating and lounging around.

First stop - Hakkei.  As always ...delicious!

Hawaii Day 2: Candoo's Big Day

Today was the main reason for coming to Hawaii ... Candoo's big day!

After yesterday's rehearsal, the girls were all ready to go!  For me, I helped too at this wedding... I was a dish washer for tea pouring! :)

For the cocktail hour, there was this sweet blue drink that I drank that didn't go down too well for me.  It was yummy though.  Looked like an AMF, but tasted sweet.  

The food at the reception was good - surf and turf :).  The steak was cooked medium, which is the first time I can recall at a wedding that steak's were cooked decently, and for the surf part, it was lobster!  Mmmmm... 

Beautiful weather, things went pretty smoothly.  Congrats!!!

Side note: Tried out my latest invention - seemed to work well, but needs some more modifications and adjustments before it is ready.

Hawaii Day 1: Anniversary in Hawaii

Today is our 4 year anniversary.  Started off with some Marukame Udon, then went and biked to Diamond Head, and hiked up to the top, and went back down.

After dinner, I got my anniversary gift - one of those pretty pearls you get to pick and open up yourself straight from an oyster! :).  Sooo happy.

Not super well yet, so went home and passed out.. with pearl in hand :)

Oh - and also ate a little snack before heading for dinner!

Hawaii Day 0: Enroute to Hawaii

Flying out of YVR - the tickets were half the price less than if we had flew out from the US of A.  So strange that it'd be cheaper to be flying into the US than within it.  

First stop on landing.  Gyu-Kaku - 牛角. Best Japanese BBQ on Waikiki!

Today they had an abalone and beer special.. Mmmmm... Cowabunga!

Finally Alive Again!

Was a pretty crappy week this past week.  Barfing, fever, coughing, snotting, phelming... curling up into a ball every couple hours.

Spent $400 on hope to have a nurse practicioner come to give me a diagnosis.. of the common cold.  Though I am glad it was just that, since this was one strong cold.

Farmer Mson Saga: First Harvest

After a month, the cilantro and mint have grown up!

Little nephew 100 day dinner!

Little nephew - so smily! :)

In honor of his presence, I had 3 bowls of shark's fin soup. Wuahhahaha

BJ's Wedding

Another trip back to T.O.

This time for two main events.  BJ's Wedding and my lil nephew's celebration of life!

BJ's Wedding - lunch at a bar rooftop in downtown T.O.

Good beer (and drinks), and there was also AYCE oysters for appetizers - where I easily had a dozen :).  At first a few people felt bad taking one or two, but once we started talking, they no longer felt so bad.

The wedding speeches were pretty funny.

After the lunch gathering, we went back to the hotel room to rest, or in our case, do a push up competition and make funny faces next to passed out people.

With the heat (and probably age), we were all a little bit out of it in the evening.  Ended up at a club, where we drank a little bit more, danced a bit, and wished the newly weds the very very best!

Congrats BJ and Terie!

Farmer Mson Saga: Automating Watering with a Drip System

Watering consistently is hard, and since we will be out of town quite a bit the next month, I had to make sure our plants get the water they need.

The solution: Drip System.



Cost: ~$105... Automation doesn't come cheap!

Farmer Mson Saga: Initial Planting

Finally gotten around to starting to take advantage of our yard.  Today we finally put in our plants.

What is being planted:
- Strawberries, watermelon, 2 kinds of tomatoes, edamame, cilantro, mint

Hopefully they turn out!

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