Aloha and Goodbye, Grandma T.!

All good visits must come to an end. Grandma T. left on Monday night. We had dinner in Waikiki at Benihana's just before her red eye flight.

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Dinner at this Benihana's is always fun. Here, the chef is making Diamond Head (the volcanic cone on this island) out of grilled onions. The water he poured in caused the steam to "erupt". The only mention the people in this picture get is that they shared our table and initially seemed perturbed to be sitting with 2 small children. But who can sit at a table with us and not be won over? These people are visiting their daughter (center) from CO Springs. About the chef...he did all kinds of fancy tricks with his knives and spatulas. He juggled them, tossed food in the air, made a pretend fish out of diced shrimp, and made Son1's day.


The hostess was nice enough to make Son1 trainer chopsticks. And this is really how kids here learn how to eat with chopsticks. You take a straw wrapper and fold it up inbetween the 2 sticks. You wrap the sticks together with a rubber band, and the chopsticks stay in place! Son1 ate his shrimp pretty easily after that.

Grandma T. is totally in love with Son2. Coincidentally they were both in green.

Son 1 had so much fun with Grandma T. She took him all kinds of places and played all kinds of games with him. They giggled, and laughed, and hugged a lot. He was so sad to see her go.