Quincie Hamby

Celebrate being together by going to Sam Choy’s on Nimitz Hwy, “Breakfast, Lunch and Crab.” Sam’s famous Moi Moi Saimin is the perfect last meal in Hawaii. See you soon, Momma.

I love a beautiful bromeliad.

Academy of Arts dinning room is a perfect lunchtime activity. We looked at the Japanese woodblock prints, delicious salad for lunch. shopping at the gift shop and pictures of the grounds.

We started the day by bringing our flower leis to my father’s grave at Punchbowl National Cemetery. When we visited the Japanese cemetery in Wainae, my Mom and I argued about the food left at the grave sites. She was angry that the Buddhist would leave this food and I tried to explain that it was a symbolic act of respect and the ancestors were not going to come out of the ground at night and peel and eat that orange.  It was interesting that we saw a gravesite at Punchbowl that had two empty bottles of Primo beer and I ask my Mom who she thought drank those beers?  Anyway, a photo of diamond head from punchbowl and some misc. headstones.

as David Kirby said, “The original Iron Chrysanthemum and daughter”!

Barbara and I were having fun with Mom. I took Tommy’s baseball trophy and made a note for Mom and asked her to hold the trophy. I told my Mom that we’re going to have lots more fun with her when she totally looses her mind.

The greatest Mom in the world!

Back in the islands and visiting my mother again, but this time with my sister. We were excited to find out the Boz Scaggs and Michael McDonald are performing at the Waikiki Shell. It’s the first time in a long time while visiting that I’d had the opportunity to see someone fun in Waikiki. Today is Sunday and my sister, Barbara and I went to Ala Moana Shopping Center to poke around and shop at Macy’s, Neimans and Shirokya’s. On the way back we went to Tamishiro’s Seafood Market. We bought Ahi poke, Tako poke, edamame, purple sweet potato and shrimp. All for our Oscar party tonight. Below are pictures that I took on the way home; eaten Opihi shells in the Tamashiro Market and heliconia flowers that I noticed blooming on the side of the road.

Opihi shells eaten and thrown in the parking lot at Tamashiro Market

sad day today. Lynn Sussman’s husband, Chuck Sussman passed away on February 14th. Michelle and I sent Lynn a bouquet of proteas from the Big Island. Hopefully the beauty of the flowers can distract Lynn from her grief. Much Aloha to the Sussmans. www.proteas.com