Kaimusailing

I went to the Cost-U-Less market, a favorite of my deceased father. This is a chain of provisioners who in the Caribbean provision yachts, but here in Hilo, Hawaii, provision mostly the locals. Good prices on a lot of things. I picked up beer for my brother and when I loaded up the car noticed my cell phone was gone. I had it in the upper portion of the shopping cart along with a paper notebook. I didn't notice that it was gone until I was up out of the parking lot and on my way. I drove back and the phone was gone. Fortunately all the pictures I took with it were on my computer and also uploaded to the cloud. But the phone itself was gone. Maybe it fell into the cart, maybe it fell from the cart to the floor or the parking lot. It was gone. Maybe someone who found it would return it to the store.
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The happy smiling aloha people who signal you with the shaka sign wouldn't take a phone that was not theirs, would they. They would. No one returned a phone to the store. I gave the store phone numbers to call if my phone was returned. No calls. Get a new phone, haole.
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We were scheduled to meet my sister, her Hawaiian husband, their incredibly sociable daughter, and of course my daughter and her partner at a sushi restaurant in Hilo called, Ocean Sushi. Fist my older brother's daughter came in, a true Hawaiian girl. Then my sister came in with another girl, very beautiful and quiet, who was that? Then my Hawaiian brother-in-law came in, he was a force to reckon with. Soon we were all together and then I realized who the pretty girl was that came in with my sister. It was her daughter Gina. Captivating. Going to work at UH at Manoa for her PhD.
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I am recommending this sushi restaurant. Also recommending Hilo Bay Cafe near the Suisan Fish Market. We went up to Volcano where the national park is and saw how the crater there has fallen in quite a bit. There is concern that more of the park will tumble down into the large caldera. The huge lava fields of Puna came from the underground store of lava under the volcano, so now there is an empty space for the volcano to collapse into. Nearby is a restaurant called Ohelo Cafe. It is highly recommended.
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The following night we ate at Moon and Turtle. This is a restaurant with limited seating, limited menu, but extraordinary quality. The menu is created unique each day and this day there were 3 entrees and 5 appetizers. We ended up with all the appetizers and I had one of the entrees, Lamb Papparadelle. The appetizers included potatoes roasted with octopus, two kinds of sashimi, crostini with salt cured ahi tuna, and small spiced oysters on the half shell. We consumed a lot of wine at $2/oz. and suffered hangover the next morning. It was great.
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The photo is of a glass of wine, pinot noir by Pino. $10.