Thursday night Ryan got a group together to hear Rocky sing at the W hotel. Friday night we had the visiting pastor and his wife, and Simpson and Lori Ann Tsang over for dinner and a boisterous night of Wii boxing. Daniel, who knocked Simpson out in three rounds, kept saying, "He's dead!" And we kept correcting, "Not dead. Down."
Friday Sophie had a school holiday, so I took the kids to the Honolulu Zoo to see the (hopefully pregnant) Siberian Tiger and the mating tortoises, neither of which you see everyday. In between animal sightings, the kids climbed every tree in sight and Daniel nearly lost a finger when he tried to feed pizza crumbs to the hordes of pigeons swarming the lunch area. At least he did it right in front of the "DO NOT FEED THE BIRDS" sign.
Saturday we all went to Waikiki first thing in the morning, and ran into Craig and Mendy Landreth, friends of our NYC friends Bryan and Lisa Taylor. The Landreths just moved to Hawaii to work with a Honolulu church. They were having their monthly Body Board Outreach. I'm guessing they didn't have those when they lived in Texas.
Sophie sang in the church choir for the first time on Sunday. She sang through a couple of praise choruses and hymns, then as soon as the choir was dismissed, bolted out of the church like she was being pursued by banshees. Next time, we're recommending that she go to the bathroom before the service starts.
A friend of ours from church, Susan Yuen, has published a children's cookbook, featuring decorative bento boxes (local-style lunches, with tiny dishes of rice, veggies and meat). It's called, appropriately, "Hawaii's Bento Box Cookbook" and has such recipes as "Penguin SPAM Musubi with Macaroni Salad" and "Pumpkin Patch with Tamago and Fried Chicken." My description is not doing justice to Susan's creativity or cooking skills, but you can find the book here: (Sis, don't buy one 'cause I've already picked you up a copy!)
On a serious note: Ryan is studying for his pastoral licensure exam. He needs to complete the written component by September 2. Most people study for this test for six months; Ryan has two weeks! As someone who can't tell Habakkuk from Hammurabi, I am in awe at the amount of material he has to memorize. Please keep him in your prayers as he reads, takes notes, and consumes massive quantities of Starbucks!
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