It's been
particularly food-oriented. My parents and I had Portuguese sweet bread buns
for breakfast. (Yes, they really are bread and really are sweet, unlike some
other "sweet bread." {wink})
Then I had a
long and leisurely lunch at a nice restaurant with a couple of friends. Talk
about a surprise! I've read about birthday lunches with the girls, but I'm not
sure I've ever been to one before. Certainly not as the birthday girl. It was
such a nice treat! One gave me lotion in a shopping bag with a very cute kitty
on it, and the other gave me a card as well as lunch. I had coconut limeade and
a mushroom burger, while my friends had wine and I forget which main courses
they ordered. We shared cucumber sushi, Italian herb bread, and passion fruit
ice cream. (Um, have I mentioned recently that Hawai'i can be quite cheerfully
blatant about multiculturalism?) And we talked a talked... we left the
restaurant two hours after we got there. {chuckle, HAPPY SMILE}
For dinner,
my parents and I had pork with apples for the main course, with buns, sparkling
cider, and chocolate cake for dessert. I chose them, and was very happy with
the results. My presents are mostly still in the mail, but Dad did give me a
book I'd noticed about Nainoa Thompson, who may have helped start the modern
Hawaiian Renaissance when he brought back Polynesian navigation and
canoe-building techniques as re-creational Archeology. That should be
interesting reading. {SMILE}
Anne Elizabeth Baldwin
Happy birthday! (Really late.) Oh, that lunch sounds lovely (and delicious.) I love going out with friends and talking. We used to have a perfectly wonderful coffee shop about halfway between where my best friend and I live, but it tragically closed down. (They served the best chai tea.) I've never heard of Nainoa Thompson, but he sounds interesting. :)
ReplyDeleteThank you, Chicory. It's only two days late. {wink, Smile}
ReplyDeleteThat really was a wonderful lunch. {SMILE}
Nainoa Thompson is interesting so far. The book is _Hawaiki Rising_ by Sam Low, and looks pretty good. {SMILE}
Anne Elizabeth Baldwin
Thanks. I love having the title and author's name on hand in case I suddenly need to read on that exact subject. (It does happen sometimes.) :)
ReplyDeleteI thought that might help. Knowing it's about Nainoa Thompson would only help if the database uses subject headings as well as author and title. That's fairly common in true libraries, but author and title are useful there, and at places like Amazon and Goodreads too. {Smile}
ReplyDeleteAnne Elizabeth Baldwin