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Welcome to 2005 - I hope everyone had a very happy new year. We are having a happy, but rainy new year. It started raining yesterday (canceling our golf outing, unfortunately) and it hasn't really let up. They are saying it is going to continue to rain for the rest of the weekend, but after that it looks like it is going to clear up. Hopefully, when we go to Oahu on Monday we will get some of that Hawaiian sun!
Here are my photos from yesterday, read on for more details...
Yesterday, Christine and I went to another Kauai staple for lunch - Hamura's Saimin. The place was packed (always a good sign), so we brought the saimin home with us. Saimin is similar to the won ton soup you receive in American chinese food restaurants, but also contains saimin noodles (like ramen), roast pork, fish cakes, hard boiled egg and greens. They say its the best around, and while I've never had anything else like it, I have to agree it was pretty good.
After lunch, Christine and I went to a movie - we saw Flight of the Phoenix. It was pretty bad, not horrible, but bad all the same. Christine claims that she liked it, but I think she might just be messing with me.
We went to Christine's grandmother's (dad's side) for New Year's Eve dinner. There were about 15 people there, mostly Christine's relatives and some of her grandmother's friends. We had a pot luck dinner with a little bit of everything - sweet and sour chicken, sashimi, sushi, seaweed salad, a mango punch with a scoop of sherbet in it (nice touch!), and a lot of other stuff. The food was great and we got to watch the ball drop in New York right as we were eating dinner (a bit anticlimatic).
After dinner we played a rousing game of pokeno - basically bingo with a (very small) hint of poker. Christine and I won a few small pots, but not the big pot (which got up to $20).
I also ran into my friend, mochi, at Christine's grandmother's house. She used the mochi to create Kagami Mochi - which are good luck talismans made with 2 mochi cakes, a tangerine and seaweed. She had them scattered through her house and gave us a couple to bring home too.
We left for home around 9:30 and broke out the fireworks. Fireworks are legal on Hawaii and people light them off up and down the streets. It seems like almost every house on Christine's block were lighting fireworks in their driveway. There was literally billows of smoke floating down the street. It was a fun way to bring in the new year and we all escaped with all our limbs in tact. I should mention that I did almost blow up Nao (Christine's brother's wife) when I burnt my finger lighting a firework and I dropped it right on her feet. Luckily, she's pretty spry and managed to jump away before it exploded. Good times.
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