{"id":404,"date":"2009-05-25T06:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-24T21:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/25\/monday-2009-05-25\/"},"modified":"2009-05-25T06:22:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-24T21:22:00","slug":"monday-2009-05-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/25\/monday-2009-05-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday 2009-05-25"},"content":{"rendered":"
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1 Monday 2009-05-25<\/h3>\n
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\nRisa, Alana, Jana, Satoko, and Aiko at the Luis Vuitton VIP Room<\/a><\/p>\n\n


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\nLouis Vuitton VIP Room<\/a><\/p>\n\n


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\nLouis Vuitton Cake<\/a><\/p>\n\n


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\nMustang at Kahala<\/a><\/p>\n\n


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\nDad, Alana, Risa at dinner at Gordon Biersch<\/a><\/p>\n\n


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\nAfter drinks at the Moana Surfrider<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n

\nMonday morning was consumed with packing. We had lots of stuff. More
\nthan we started with.\n<\/p>\n

\nWe then left the Kahala – after a bit of a delay in finding our cake –
\nand went back to the Waikiki Banyan.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe big plan for the afternoon was for Risa and Alana and Jana to go
\nto the VIP room at Louis Vuitton<\/a>. The organizer there, Mariko, a
\nfriend of the Tanaka family’s friend (Kobayashi, who helped with a bit
\nof the arrangements here and a lot of the Tanaka family planning) gave
\nus a cake there. It was delicious.\n<\/p>\n

\nI might not have mentioned it, but our rental car was a
\nChevy HHR<\/a> wagon type thing. It is a reasonable car. Mr. Tanaka said
\nthat I should get a big car so that we can shuttle people around.
\nTurns out we didn’t really do much of that. It was useful when we
\nmoved from the Kahala back to our other hotel though. But Risa was
\ncomplaining that it wasn’t really a cool car. So while she was at the
\nLoius Vuitton showroom, I took the car back and changed it for a
\nconvertible Mustang. Protip: do not let them close out your car when
\nyou want to do an exchange. Use the magic words: “I want to
\nexchange.” If they close it out, it might take a long time to get the
\ncar you really want. It turns out that the change to a mustang didn’t
\nreally cost anything. huh. Maybe it is a few dollars, but it isn’t
\nreally much of a premium over the normal car.\n<\/p>\n

\nAlso, the speed limits are low in Hawaii: the fasted road I have found
\nis 55 mph. There is hardly any benefit to getting a hot car over a
\nnormal one, but I can’t argue that the mustang isn’t cooler than the
\nHHR, because it is.\n<\/p>\n

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1.1 Dinner at Gordon Biersch at Aloha Tower<\/h4>\n

\nAfter that, I picked people up, and we went back to our place.
\nEventually we made it to the Gordon Biersch Brewery where the Tanaka
\nand Evans family had a last dinner together. It didn’t really work
\ntoo well though because of the Japanese – English barrier, and like I
\nsaid before I am not really a very good interpreter. I was super
\nhappy to see Eric Tschetter and Sayuri there, but it looked like Eric
\nwas either perpetually embarrassed, or had a devastatingly sunburned
\nface. Turns out it was the sunburn. After dinner he was out of
\ncommission as he (probably) repeated applied Aloe Vera<\/a> to his face
\nwhile cursing his pigment-lacking ancestry. I do that a lot too.\n<\/p>\n

\nDinner was nice. Dad met a friend there from Omak<\/a>. He had friends
\neverywhere. After dinner we went back home, then to the
\nMoana Surfrider<\/a> bar for drinks with Alana and Jana. And finally back
\nhome for more dead-like sleep.\n<\/p>\n


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