It’s another rainy Manoa morning, and I’m getting ready to walk the puppies.  Our dogs are so lolo - they bug us to take them for their walk and then run away when we try to put on their walking harnesses!  Go figure ….

It was another awesome evening at Kani Ka Pila!  We streamed our live performance via the internet so I hope you were able to at least catch some of our show last night.  We had another great crowd in attendance with lots of them blowing these little red whistles that our friend, Yutaka, had brought and was giving away. Nick and Alex were also surprised to see a couple of their former Punahou teachers in the audience, and !  BTW, I’d like to be sure to say “hi” to all of you personally the next time we do a live video feed, so please remind me before the next scheduled performance.  You can check our schedule since Nick always tries to keep it updated.

I did not score very well during my round of golf out at Hoakalei yesterday, although I had a blast with my partners Leon, Chris, and Danny.  As I pointed out in my previous blog, Hoakalei is a brand new golf course out on the Ewa plain and was designed by professional golfer, Ernie Els.  The course covers a much larger area than other Hawaii courses, and there are SO many sandtraps – over 130 to be exact!  Naturally, I ended up in a few of them during the course of play but was able to get out without too much trouble.  Since we weren’t familiar with the course, our scores reflected it – I shot a horrendous 91 – and that was the low score of our group!  What the …?!  I’m sure if we played it again (hint, hint) we’d definitely do much better!

Have a great Labor Day!

Aloha, Lloy”D”

Last night we all went to Nick’s condo for what I thought was a housewarming get together … SURPRISE!!  It turned out to be a surprise birthday dinner for me!  How thoughtful of them!  Nick’s place is really nice – a real bachelor’s pad – with sweeping views of the Honolulu city skyline.  We spent the evening eating, drinking, and playing Wii (my first experience) and I actually got physically exhausted playing the damn video game!  It was a real blast and I really want to thank my family, especially Carla, Nick, and Alex for putting this all together.  I love you guys!

It’s almost September and we need to start preparing for our return trip to Japan in a couple of weeks.  We also need to plan the recording schedule for CD #3 which we’d like to have by early next year (hopefully!).  Lots of things in the fire … looks like it’s time to ROCK ‘N ROLL AGAIN, BABY!!

Aloha, Lloy”D”

Fresh off the plane from beautiful, sunny Seattle, we are packing up and getting ready for our trip over the rest of the Pacific Ocean tomorrow. We are really looking forward to kicking off the 2009 Hawaii Tourism Japan Campaign tours, and are looking forward to seeing all our Japan friends!

Last Year’s Kagura Trip in Akiohtacho!

Check out our schedule for all the times and locations of where we will be.

Aloha and Sayooonara!
Nick