On Thursday, Rus, Jes, and I went to the Waikiki Aquarium. It’s such a cool place since most of their reef exhibits are lit by sunlight and not that artificial purple light. Rus had so much fun looking at the filter system and he kept saying to the fish, “You guys are so lucky.” He’s in the aquarium/fish industry now so he was sorta doing some research, making some contacts with the gift shop lady, and just having a good time.

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In the evening, we went to E & O Trading Co. for Derek and Elise’s rehearsal dinner. It was quite a production. All of their guests were invited; there was a hula dancer; everyone got “leid”; we all got party favors to take home; and the booze kept flowin’. After dinner was over, we stayed after to continue the drinking and at the stroke of midnight, we all welcomed Dayantha into the 30 club. Yep, our youngster is the Big 3-0 and we got him mighty liquored. In addition to the shots and numerous vodka tonics, we made a special request to the DJ and Dayantha was handed the mike for his rendition of “Ditty”. Good times…