Happy Birthday, Brent!

Today is Brent's 22nd birthday! So we went to Curtis & Lori's house for dinner this evening. Ever since Lori invited us over for dinner Mom has been fretting over not getting him a card (she did) and not having any money to give him for a present (she did). We picked up the card yesterday after her blood draw; we also picked up a sympathy card for Aunty Jean. And I had cash from the house money fund. I put the card together for her today, after mahjong, and she wrote the note inside and addressed the envelope. Then 5 minutes later was worrying because she did not have time to get him a card or get money out of the bank for him! During the 45-minute drive to Curt's house she asked 7  times why we were going there. Towards the end of the drive she remembered it was Brent's birthday but forgot she had written a card and put money in the card. Here's the birthday boy.

Brent with Jenny's arm to L, in background L to R: Mrs. Nomura, Dad, Mom, & Mr. Nomura.

Happy Brent with 1 lb of chocolate!

Mom spent the morning at mahjong. Which gave me time to run errands. Which turned out to be just one errand. The RAV4 died after the first errand as I was unloading the 1st load of the red cinders (13 bags) from City Mill. I called AAA and they sent a guy to test the battery then jump it. It turns out the battery was very dead, mainly because it was 7 years old in a car that has not been driven much so it did not get many full recharges from driving. The alternator was fine, so since I was intending on doing several more short trips for errands today, I replaced the battery.

We went to lunch with 2 of Mom's mahjong buddies, the 3rd one could not join us for lunch. We went to On On Restaurant again. This time I had the Beef with Mushroom Cake Noodles.

Beef with mushroom cake noodles

For Brent's birthday party, I bought a quart of honey ginger ice cream from 8 & 1/2 Desserts. It was excellent with the chocolate birthday cake! I also got to meet Robert, the owner and maker of all the ice creams. Robert remembered the Manua Kea ice cream cake (haupia and chocolate ice cream with a oreo cookie crust) that I bought for Sarah's baby shower. We had to pick it up a day early since his daughter surprised them by telling friends that they were having a birthday party for her on Sunday, so they had to close up the store in order to do so! It was his brother-in-law Justin, a nurse at Kaiser Moanalua that we met when Mom was in the emergency room in July, that told us about this place. Lori's birthday is next week, I think I will get the lychee ice cream for her. I should also take a photo of their ice cream freezer with all the flavors and ice cream cookie creations.

Happy Birthday also to Yvonne & Angela!