Day 6: My Day

Sunday: I HATE to leave my responsibilities at church to someone else (esp. on short notice) but when my husband asked if the kids and I would accompany him to town to meet with our car dealer, I couldn't resist. I knew that it was an opportunity to spend much needed time with him because of work and other marriage "strains." The day almost didn't happen because as soon as I had handed off my simple lesson plan, I couldnt find my purse. I was frantic and thinking, "That's what I get for ditching primary!" After 20 mins, I found it, and we were off. Two mins into the drive, a cop pulls Bo over for illegally over-taking a car that had cut us off. I repeated (in my mind) my earlier sentiment, but tried to remain calm. Luckily, Officer AhSue admitted to not seeing the cut-off, and let us go, expired tags and all. Ironically, that's where we were going in the first place...to the dealer to get our registration taken care of.

It turned out to be quite a day, starting with pork\chicken skewers and fresh corn from a roadside fruit stand, getting our tags current after almost a year, late lunch at Burger King, cruising up the Pali and around Makapu'u to Halona Blowhole (where Bo made walls 3 yrs ago), to Ross for a dress, and then McDs for ice cream sundaes and fried apple pies. It was quite an adventure and I will never forget:

-how my kids love getting dressed to go somewhere

-how my husband can talk his way out of a lot of things

-how good fresh, hot,sweet corn tastes from Kahuku and how Laila can eat 3 in one sitting

-how Bo makes me try and like new foods all the time (today, salmon poke)

-how Lole loooves Pizza Hut cinnamon sticks

-how after 20+ yrs in Hawaii, I finally went to the Nuuanu Pali Lookout, a first for my whole family

-how Lole really had take a crap and so Bo sat her on the edge of the trash can and asked the "curious" tourists if they had a staring problem

-how cold and windy it was, with the clouds moving about us

-how Laila ran all over the place, slipper-less, once we got to the blowhole

-how Lole likes to sing in the wind

-how fun it is to see new things and do things as a family, camera in hand

 

 

 

Looooong day, but totally worth it. FAMILY...it was about time!