Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Tractor painting

Sharon's old truck (now Amity and Sam's), The Tractor, got a facelift this weekend. Check it out on Jeremy's blog here.

I know the weather in the NW has been pretty rough lately, but it hasn't been #1 here for the past several weeks either. Aside from Sunday and yesterday, there has been lots of rain pretty much every day. Here's what it looks like at my house right now:



It is 78 degrees, yes; but it still gets old when it rains pretty much all the time.

So, again this weekend we were forced inside after getting in about 6 holes of golf between downpours on Friday. Samoa Steve is back from 2 months on a boat:


Ben got punched in the face this weekend (here's an exaggerated re-enactment):

Mainly there was just your standard hanging out.






Ayla drank a LOT of beer:


We're even reduced to entertaining ourselves with eyebrow contests:



Restaurant review:

Sadie's. This is probably the best actual real "restaurant" on the island. It isn't as good as Falepule, but Falepule isn't open on a daily basis. For lunch, I'm a fan of Sadie's. They have an $8.95 special including bread, soup or salad, and iced tea or lemonade. Dinner and other things on the menu are still way overpriced, but if you're only going there once a week for lunch, having just two choices is not that bad. Overall, the quality varies between about as good as and a little better than Denny's (but aside from the lunch specials, priced like a 4-5 star restaurant). Like everything though it is not always consistent. Once in a while it is really good. Once in a while what you get would never be allowed to be served at a Denny's. The service here is actually pretty good in general and just awesome for the island.
Off island: 4.5 On island: 9

3 comments:

P a n c a k e said...

Agreed on Sadies.

Also, you gotta post that photo of Alden when he looks like a shark/monster, if that was you who took it. I can't remember. My brain took a detour that night.

Janaya said...

I seriously cannot believe that they did that to her truck. I would have killed them. It does look pretty funny though.

fogfan said...

Awww...I'm loving the restaurant reviews. Keep 'em coming. I will say this about the rain, at least the rain there is warm and you can do stuff like gardening or play football and stuff.

I'll never forget when I first moved to San Francisco and tried to go for a walk on a rainy day. F-ing freezing.