Last furniture for awhile

Yesterday we picked up our first beach umbrella and went to Makaha beach. Its one of our favorites and is about 10 miles away. We had lunch packed in our cooler and stayed for about 5 hours.

Then we painted our kitchen and one other living room wall, we are loving the color choice. We painted until about midnight. We watched more Olympics of course too. I meant to say the other day that our professional opinion is that some of those Chinese gymnasts are definitely not 15. They don't have the teeth for that age.

Also, we watched our favorite news story so far about Obama's visit to Hawaii. He had a fundraiser where they were serving heavy pupu's. Pupu is the word for appetizer here and its funny to hear the news say that Obama's rally will feature heavy pupu's.

This morning we set out to battle with the DMV. First Brian went to get his safety inspection. Then we failed for not having the front license plate. Then to the DMV for the plate. Later we will have to return to finish the inspection, and get that sticker. Then we have to take a written test and such when we go to get our new driver's license.

Then we went out for lunch to a place for Filipino food. We've never had this. And we NEVER will again. I ordered a soup that was pork, shrimp and lots of veggies. It tasted like boiled pork fat in dish water. I could barely eat enough to not be rude. Brian had a combo platter. He did much better with his food, but later admitted that we would not try that again. His plate featured calamari that was in a sauce that was a purple/red. He tried hard to get me to try it- ha ha ha. But at least he didn't order the pork in its own blood sauce. He also had these noodles that was pretty bad and some chicken that was all bone and unedibles and some fried pork fat something. We came home and I had a hot dog (much better). I thought of when Grampy and Ahmie were in China and went to McDonalds. Tomorrow Brian and I are getting some burger meat for the grill.

This afternoon, we picked up our last bit of furniture, but it was a big one. It is a 10 ft long microfiber sectional. The catch is the color....off white. The saving bit, the previous owner bought a 7 year stain removal policy where they come to your house and clean the couch and if they can't, they replace the cushion or couch. He transfered the policy to our name and its good for another 4 years. The couch is in mint condition. It's funny that we got a white couch after complaining about all the white in our townhouse, but it looks really nice with the paint color and other furniture.

Tonight we had a nice pasta salad I made (vast improvement from this afternoon) and we are watching the gymnastics and taking a day off from painting. Its pretty funny because we watch the Olympics on a 5-6 hour time delay from EST and they delay that from Bejing. So even though we are only 6 hours ahead of Bejing time, we see everything about 18 hours after it happens so we can't watch any news because it ruins it for us.

Tomorrow, we return the trailer and maybe we'll do something in Honolulu....