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
