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Dinner at Gyotaku with Aunty Kitty and Aunty Myrtle

November 9th, 2012 · No Comments


Kathy and Aunty Kitty


Aunty Myrtle and me


Big confusing menu!


Bento with butterfish, chicken and ahi.

For dinner we met up with Dallas’s parents and his Aunty Kitty and Aunty Myrtle. We went to a Japanese restaurant called Gyotaku. The menu was big and confusing, but I muttled through enough to order a good meal. I got the bento with ahi sashimi, teri chicken, and miso butterfish. Aunty Kitty got the same thing but tempura instead of the chicken, I think. I hadn’t seen these aunties from Dallas’s mom’s side for years, so it was good to catch up.

The food was pretty good at Gyotaku. I especially liked the butterfish. All of the meals were served with a lot of extras – rice, salad, soup, pickles. The clientele was all families and a lot of older people who seemed to be regulars. The wait staff seemed to know everyone and to spend a lot of time talking and joking with diners.

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Dinner at the Matsudas

October 28th, 2012 · 1 Comment


Erik, Swede, Safina


Safina and Swede playing ball with Dallas and Erik


Racing trophies


Aunty Nancy said the kids have brought these to school for Show & Tell!


Ahi Sashimi


Mountains of ahi sashimi!!


Portuguese Meat, Aunty Nancy’s Specialty


Party People


In the house tonight…


Swede and the family cat.


Safina and Swede putting sprinkles on the cake.


Safina and Swede blowing out candles.

Dallas’s family’s best friends on Kauai are the Matsudas. They live just down the road from where Dallas and his family lived and we try to see them every time we go back to Kauai. Some years it’s just the family and us and some years, like this year, there are a lot of people. I think because Dallas’s parents were with us and a lot of their friends came over.

After the drag races we headed over to the Matsuda’s house. Uncle Bob and Uncle George and the others had to finish up at the race track and put the car back into storage so they met up with us later. Every time we come to Kauai, no matter what, Aunty Nancy makes Dallas his favorite dish that only she makes: Portuguese Meat. At least that’s what they call it (Aunty Nancy is Portuguese). This year she also got this enormous platter of ahi sashimi. Seriously, it was the biggest plate of sashimi I’ve ever seen… and probably the best-tasting too.

It was fun to see everyone again. Safina and Swede are growing up so big! They are such nice and open kids. Right away they fell right in with us. Swede was saying “Uncle, Uncle look at this!” to Dallas and kept bringing things out. We played ball and helped them decorate a cake for everyone (just the sprinkles). We’re not positive if it was someones birthday or if the kids just wanted to blow out candles.

So nice to see everyone and visit! Until next time..!

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Family Barbecue

October 23rd, 2012 · 2 Comments


Liz with her sister Shannon and mom Toni


Uncle Dee and Jordan


Liz with Uncle Dee and Cousin Casey


Time to eat!


Jose and Caroline


Uncle Dee, Casey, Aunty Kathy


Uncle Mel and Aunty Wendie. Aunty Wendie’s quote of the day: “I never ate poi with chopsticks before!”


Xavier, Janet, Aunty Helen, George, Larry, Eleanor


Eleanor, Uncle Bob, Steve, Kathy, Xavier, Janet


Uncle Mel, Aunty Wendie, Uncle Dee, Jordan, Aunty Kathy, Jose, Caroline

The night of Liz and Jordan’s wedding we had a family barbecue. Well, family and some very close family friends. A lot of the food was from Joe’s on the Green, where we had our wedding last year. Uncle Dee also picked up a lot of local favorites like lau lau, poke, poi, kalua pig and Chinese noodles.


Casey


Dallas


Uncle Mel

Actually, a few people picked up poke. I think we had about 8 or 9 different ones to taste test! All of the food was so good. The lau lau that Uncle Dee brought from Da Imu Hut was getting rave reviews. Even the vegetarians ate it! For dessert we had cupcakes from Cakes by Kristin in Kapa’a.


Jackson and Savannah swimming in the pool.


A little frog that Jackson and Savannah found.


Liz and her family: Steve, Toni, Shannon, Kathy, Charlie, Savannah and Jackson

We had some drinks and visited. It was all very relaxed. At one point Savannah and Jackson, Liz’s niece and nephew, went back to where they were staying to get their bathing suits and take a dip.


Looking through old family photos.


Just a sample of what we found: This is Caroline, Jordan, and Dallas!

We also spent a lot of time looking at old family photos that Aunty Kathy brought from Dallas’s grandma’s house. I have only seen maybe two photos of Dallas as a child so it was so fun to look through books and books of his childhood. And very good to spend time with the family looking through grandma and grandpa’s adventures. Dallas never realized how much they loved to travel together. It was nice to see them so young and happy and having some great adventures. I think it helped the family a lot.

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