Tag: family
-
Restaurant review: Chef Mavro (Honolulu)
Chef Mavro is one of our favorite restaurants in Honolulu. While some of our other favorites have gifted chefs who serve excellent food, Chef Mavro has both those requirements, and the dishes are always beautifully presented. We try and go twice on every trip and alternate between the 6 course menu and the 4 course…
-
What We Did On Our Summer Vacation: Hawaii
We just returned from 10 days in paradise (aka Hawaii and, more specifically, Honolulu). Among other things, the kids took surfing lessons, we saw rainbows, we built sand castles, we visited the Punchbowl (officially known as the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific), and we went on a Segway tour of Diamondhead with Marcus’s best…
-
Water Gun Fight (aka Enjoying the Summer)
Our rising 9th grader (or, more accurately, our 14 year old son) decided that what was needed to make the summer more fun was a water gun fight with a bunch of friends. He cleared the date and time with us, issued invitations to his friends (by text, of course), and on the appointed day,…
-
4th of July in Nantucket
We were kindly invited by some good friends to join them in Nantucket for the 4th of July weekend. Nantucket is one of the very few places on the East coast that reminds of us God’s country (otherwise known as the West coast). There were magnificent sunsets: Fun 4th of July fireworks (lit off on…
-
8th grade graduation
Our son graduated from 8th grade a few weeks ago in a lovely ceremony held at the school. Being a 14 year old boy with only an embryonic frontal lobe (at best), he neglected to mention that he was part of an ensemble that was singing as part of the ceremony. (If you knew the…
-
Movie review: Captain America: Civil War
I have a soft spot for movies with lots of explosions and (cartoon) violence. I also have a soft spot for Disney. And a soft spot for the Marvel movies. And a *definite* soft spot for Jeremy Renner. So when you have a movie that contains all of those elements AND adds an extra element…
-
Family Life Merit Badge (aka Cleaning the Basement)
Our fourteen year old son is in Boy Scouts and, as part of the process, has to earn merit badges in a variety of subjects along the way. (For those of you familiar with Boy Scouts, he is currently a Life Scout with only his camping merit badge and his Eagle Scout project standing in…
-
Folger Shakespeare gala April 2016
The Folger Shakespeare Library has the world’s largest collection of First Folios, the first publication of Shakespeare’s plays. (They are stored in a huge vault, which is way cool to visit.) It is an organization that provides scholarly resources for academic research, concerts and plays, and education curricula for K-12 teachers. One of its missions—and…
-
Dinner at the Inn at Little Washington (April 2016)
When our family arrived at the Inn at Little Washington a couple of weeks ago, we were asked if we were celebrating a special occasion (which does happen). This time, however, our response was: “Dinner!” And dinner that evening was definitely worth celebrating. We started off with the well-known (and delectable) popcorn with black truffles…
-
Spring Break in Costa Rica
Spring break planning was interesting this year. Our son had opted to go on a school-sponsored sea turtle conservation trip in Costa Rica the week before spring break officially started. After some discussion (and verification that a Four Seasons resort existed in the country), we decided to join him in Costa Rica and spend spring…