I met Steph in SFO for our trip to Hawaii.  She had a martial arts friend who works at the airport meet us at one of the restaurant bars.  They chatted for a while before he got called away. In Hawaii we showed up pretty late at the hotel and immediately crashed.  The next day I did laundry in the morning, then we went to the beach party before the wedding.  It was lot of people and the beach was nice.  We took some of the Hawaiian style mochi that Steph really likes, and it went over well.  The peanut butter filled mochi is especially good.

We left a little early and went to a beach where Steph could snorkel and I could just relax for a bit.  We then headed to Bonnie’s house to help out with the flowers and pupus (appetizers) for the wedding.  Travis had a dozen octopuses that he had shot, and I helped to gut and clean them for the cooking.  It was a lot of salting, massaging, and washing to get them prepped.  Noah joined me in the process and we had a great conversation about him working on an ME degree.  Then we helped fold wontons, which I wasn’t too bad at, but I was extremely slow compared to the others.  

We had to return the ZipCar and I could tell which sandals were mine in the dark, so I just walked back barefoot.  The sandals that Steph had bought for me earlier that day were there, I just couldn’t recognize them, and the tags had been rubbed off in just the one day.

The next day we had our book club call, which was nice.  We lost track of time, which was hard to keep track of given the time zone changes and daylight savings.  Steph then had a call with the Delta Fliers and I had a nice walk along Waikiki.

We took a bus to the wedding, which was at a nice resort.  The venue was gorgeous, and they had done a wonderful setup for the whole wedding.  I got a temporary tattoo that said “No Ragrets” but it was in reverse as well, as all the temp tattoos were.  There were a lot of people doing the entire arm with a temp tattoo, and they all looked really good.

The ceremony was lovely, and one of the songs they chose for it is one we are performing for choir this term: Can’t Help Falling in Love.  

The party was the best wedding party I’ve been to.  The dancing and singing, and everyone just joining in was wonderful.  I got some good video and made a music video with a Suno generated song.

The day after was a little rough, but not nearly as bad as I was expecting it to be.  We went spear fishing and free diving with Travis in the afternoon, where Steph got a fish.

Our last day there we got out early and did some snorkeling and saw a huge turtle.  We then went to the Zoo, which had lots of gorgeous birds.  In the afternoon we hiked up Diamond Head, and got a great view over Honolulu.

In the evening we had dinner with Steph’s cousins and Aunts and Uncles.  Then we said goodbye to Steph’s parents and got to sleep really early for the LONG flight home.

What would be the first part of week 100 in London.