Anberlin didn’t come to Hawaii

Maria was totally bummed.  I was pretty bummed too.  We dropped the kids with a relatively new babysitter named Svetlana. She and her husband are Russian.  He is in the military, and I honestly don’t know how it all works, as they both have Russian accents and are from Russia, but it works.  She is trying to get into the military as well.  Maybe they are spies, but the girls love her, and she paints with them and reads them stories and such so I don’t care. 

Maria and I went to a place called the Loft downtown, because there had been flyers and such all over the internet saying Anberlin was coming there. Unfortunately, sometime between when the flyers went up and our date the place had closed down.  So we found a nice place to eat next to where the Loft used to be. It was a Vietnamese restaurant and we ate asparagus, salad, spring rolls and drank the most awesome homemade ginger ale ever. Goodness but I can’t think/write when there is music in the background and kids jumping on top of me.  It is weird, but I really need quiet to think to write. Otherwise I end up with a bunch of grammarbroke sentences and sound stupid. Reading too, I can’t read if there is noise in the background.

So there were cool pictures of Vietnam all over the restaurant, but the one at our table was particularly nice, and Maria took a picture next to it. 

What else… Afterward we went to Menchie’s, which is a frozen yogurt place. We walked along the beach a ways and sat on a wooden bench. Maria was too bummed that Anberlin didn’t come to really enjoy the date much though.

You might be wondering why I am not putting Maria’s umlaut in. That would be because I don’t know how to on this computer. I got a free laptop in the mail from Google. It is called the CR48 and it runs Google’s Chrome operating engine. It is a push to call it an operating engine though, as it only actually runs Google’s Chrome browser, and everything has to be done through a browser window. They gave about 30,000 of them away for free, out of several hundred thousand applicants. I don’t really know if there was rhyme or reason to who got one, or if it was like a big lottery. Anyway, I got a free laptop out of the deal, but it is a bit of a rough laptop usage wise. I couldn’t even figure out how to rotate the above picture!

One last picture, this one from Seporah’s school. They had a family fun fair and the girl’s got to play games, eat hot dogs and get their faces painted. They even had bouncy houses.