a new yorker’s year in hawaii
There have been a lot more geckos around lately large ones in particular.
When I look out at the patch of greenery in the back yard, many of the leaves are shivering with geckos hopping back and forth. Yesterday we took the car to get some gas and K found a fugitive on the trunk of our car.
I tried to get it to jump off and away from the cars pulling up to the gas pumps. But instead it jumped down and then back up on the tire. I hope he/she survived against the odds.
K’s family arrives today. Send in the reinforcements!
K’s family arrives tomorrow for a two week visit. Wow 😀 So we’ve been preparing for a few days now: cleaning, doing laundry, running errands, planning meals, and buying grocieries for an army. We wanted to get special leis for their arrival. Until now we’ve swung by the little stands at the airport whenever we’ve had visitors. Today we went to Wantanabe Floral because I’d read that they have the biggest selection. One of the leis we got was like the pretty one I wrote about recently.
Incidentally when we were doing our Meals on wheels route the other day I saw a lady walking a dog that was wearing a lei custom fit to his collar.
K got his haircut by Joe Randazzo at J Salon today. He trimmed my bangs for me since I recently had a haricut. I like Joe. He lived in NY for a period of time and there’s a shared sensibility that I really appreciate. He asked me how I wanted my bangs to look. I told him and in five minutes, voila. Done and done. Bangs make a gigantic difference to my face. I feel more like myself.
We had dinner with the fantastic Lums tonight at Roy’s in Hawaii Kai. It was good food and great company. I’d heard people rave about Roy’s and frankly expected it to be disappointing. But the service was very good and the food was satisfying. I can hardly sit up to write this. It was so good that we closed the place down with talk story.
Just kidding. Hawaii unlike NY does sleep.
Interesting factlette from Wing tek: Punahou alumns not only include Barack Obama (leader of the free world) but Steve Case co founder of AOL and Pierre Omidyar founder of Ebay as well. Amazing!
K’s family is arriving soon. We’ve been busy preparing which included errands at Long’s. We’re going to Kauai for part of the time they’re here. We finally solidified all the details yesterday with help form Fran at Tom Barefoot’s Tours. I’m very excited to finally visit one of the other islands
We did our Meals on Wheels route on our own this week. We didn’t see Gladys at the pick-up point which was kind of sad. We were looking forward to seeing her again. The route took us a long time for some reason. And the senior lady K felt a small connection to was busy being read to by a neighbor. So we made all of our deliveries with minimal interaction. It doesn’t seem like much, driving around and delivering frozen food, but I was dog-tired at the end. I think it’ll probably get easier as we get more familiar with the different addresses.
I’ve never been to a dump before. We had to get rid of our microwave that blew up a few weeks ago. It’s been sitting on our floor for weeks. K heard there was a dump off of Kapaa Quarry so we finally made our way out there. It’s very very organized. Which I would never have imagined of a dump.
Ah where to begin. K and I went to his wrap party last weekend and it was good fun. The first part was on Waikiki Parc’s rooftop and then downstairs at Nobu. The rooftop was beautiful. The one thing I care to share is that the Nobu hamachi that was passed around on the rooftop was delicious. Most yummy part of the night.
Three One Nine 