I Did It

I bought a cheap little ukulele. I didn't think I'd be able to play it with my giant hands, but its surprisingly comfortable. Here's a quick video of me playing "Something" by The Beatles on it this morning:

not bad for the first time, though i'm sure someone will comment on my stupid hat.

Otherwise, I've been checking out the beaches, tooling around in the 'Stang, and taking photos. Hoping to get some of my B&W developed today, and switch to color permanently. This place is just too colorful to stay in B&W. NYC looks good in monochrome; Hawaii deserves the full Kodachrome 800 spectrum.

On the food front, Blondie and I have been out to sushi twice, and it is out of this world. We've been to two places in Hanalei, Bouchon's and Dolphin, and sat at the sushi bar both times. What's odd is that we've only had non-Japanese sushi chefs so far. That's the first we've ever encountered such an occurrence. And they were great; we let them make for us whatever they thought we'd like the most: quite a delicious decision. Most importantly to me, we tried "uni" for the first time. What exactly is uni? Well, it's raw sea urchin (removed from that spiny body of course), and it's really fuckin' good. I've been seeing it on Food Network and Top Chef for so long, we had to try it. And the best part about Hawaii sushi? It's considerably cheaper, and fresher, than it's NYC counterpart. So they've got that going for them. Which is nice.