Old School

Went to New Eagle Cafe with Ryan and Brent for dinner tonight. It's one of a dying breed of old time eateries in Hawaii. Kuhio Grill....Aloha Grill....Columbia Inn....Flamingo....

Good food. Reasonable prices. Good service (read as: fast!).

One thing that makes these places special is the waitresses. (No waiters; no wait staff; no servers) Older, local ladies who know their job - get the food down ASAP...but with character.

Ryan showed up a little late for dinner so Brent and I delayed ordering our dessert until he almost caught up. New Eagle has great pies. I think the owner's wife still bakes them. Brent orders a banana pie and since this is the first time to this restaurant, he has hopes that it will equal the pie he remembers from Flamingo. It does.

So Ryan decides he'd like one, too. Alas, the waittress informs us that Brent's was the last piece of banana. :-( So Ryan decides, no dessert.

A little while later she brings a small slice of banana pie!

The funny part is she tells us, "Here, had one small slice left. You cut my line, I was going eat 'em but das okay!"

"You cut my line!" Ryan and I haven't heard that in ages and Brent never heard it before! Too funny!

btw, Baylor is doing better today. Yay!

Prayers for Baylor

Prayers for Baby Baylor who's having a tough day.

Circumstantial Pomp

It was a weekend for graduations and grad parties.

Saturday saw us at HBA's graduation followed by a party to celebrate one of Brent's buddy's St. Louis graduation after which I dropped off Juliet to greet another friend's daughter at the Punahou graduation.

Tonight we attended another St. Louis graduate's party in Mililani.

This week there is more graduation stuff as we help Juliet's cousin prepare for her daughter's party (the HBA graduate) which is this coming Saturday.

End of a long week

Finished up a pretty tough week of work. Fast changes necessary to stay ahead of things in this market make it pretty fatiguing on the mind. The other thing I notice is that the down economy puts strains on personal relationships that bleed over into the work place; another thing that needs adaptation.
On a bright note, the books closed on May and it turned out to be a good month after all was said and done so that's definitely something for which to be thankful.

Had a great lunch today with some Tsaikos at Camellia. Good times.

Baby Baylor

Our friends Craig and Bri had their baby this morning.

Baylor was born at 8 am.

Here's his Uncle Billy Ray and the newborn. GrandDad Bill sent the picture to me. Everyone's real excited.

Congratulations!

Sunday in the Park

We had a late birthday celebration for Brent at Kapiolani Park yesterday.

Lots of fun and sun...so much that I was too tired to post anything last night.

We finally broke down and bought our own volleyball set and someone brought "Potagee Horseshoes". Everyone had a good time.