Saturday, March 28, 2009
I have a T.T. Collar! (So does Dean.) (Mine's cream.) We figured out what the T.T. stands for: Tired Tiger!
Posted at 9:20:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
Lovely final outdoorsing, before it was time to go. Overcast, enveloping air. Perfect temp, neither hot nor cold (no beater necessary). The smallest of breezes. I like my outdoorsing view up the mountain into the clouds, to Lulo-town.
Posted at 12:57:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
Final Keauhou Farmers' Market! We said goodbye to all our favorite vendors, including the Tart Lady's daughter, the Weird Fruit Guy (I told him about eating calamansie sauce at the CanoeHouse and asked if it was his, and he said it probably was), the Lotus Guy, Kristen at the Makali'i stand, and of course the Lulo Guy. The Lotus Guy gave us a sample of sugarcane juice, using his new hand-cranked sugarcane smusher machine. It was pretty good! It was sweet, but not insanely sweet (Dean thought it was a good amount of sweet; I thought it was slightly too sweet but not bad), and was refreshing, not like sugar water. Dean asked him if he got the machine from the hui but he didn't react. Hahahah.
We also got our usual lilikoi juice (waah! I'll miss lili juice) and summer rolls from the Lotus Guy, and Dean got a banana stickyrice wrapped in banana leaves thing (I had it at the South Kona market previously and didn't like it, but Dean did). And we had our final brunch burrito and fish taco from Makali'i To Go. I'll be interested to see how much Makali'i has expanded next year!
Dean bought four more lulos even though we're leaving tonight and we already have two! (Dean is crazy about miracle fruit + lulo!) We shook hands with the Lulo Guy and bade him farewell. I hope the Gs' lulo plants fruit, so I can report back! The L.G. is so interested in seeing what happens when people plant lulo in new climates.
Oh yeah, and Dean finally got a drinking coconut from the back of the coconut dude's truck. He made us try some jackfruit and told us to say what it tasted like. He kept saying we'd recognise the taste, and to think back to childhood, etc. Finally we demanded he tell us, and he revealed that the answer was Juicyfruit gum. We both immediately agreed. He said jackfruit was the original juicyfruit, because when you slice open a jackfruit it's really juicy. After Dean finished the coconut juice, we went back and he macheted the coconut in two for us, so we could bring it back and eat the meat. I commented to Dean after we walked away about the weird way he was acting, and Dean suggested why. Oh.
After we finished our eats, we strolled back through the market to get back to the Jeep, and all the vendors were packing it in. It was 12:00. It was cool to see them packing up on the same day we are. The coconut dude and his dog and truck were already gone.
When we got back, we ate that rose apple from the SKFS. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, but it was yuck. Dean said it was GOOD. As I expected, it tasted like rosewater.
We only have 2 lulos left (and Dean wants to buy more, even though we're leaving tonight). That means we ate 25 lulos this week!!!
Posted at 10:41:00 AM by Laura W. Petix.
Friday, March 27, 2009
Posted at 6:39:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
CanoeHouse notes:
Laura = Kohala Marnier / tomato bisque with crème fraîche / shark bites (coconut mac encrusted with calamansi sauce) / uni / ume and shisho maki.
Dean = hearts of palm salad with beets / linguine w/waimea tomatoes, mushrooms etc. / iced tea w/lilikoi juice.
Pahu-esque atmosphere but more lively and less romantic. Nice view of ocean and blowing palms.
A little SNAILY between courses.
Crème brûlée competition continues! Very light and fluffy and creamy. Vanilla beans are all down the bottom. Classic brulee. Very good. Maybe #3 after Routier.
Meal was a good value! Pahu was clearly superior in every category but Canoe was excellent and similar. (And much less expensive.)
Posted at 5:30:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
Eeeeeevil. After I told her we're leaving Saturday, the Kona Mountain Coffee girl (same one who knew my drink on the first day we visited) punched off all the remaining coffees on my Club Card and said, "See you tomorrow!" I think I only had 4 punched and now there's 12. She did it to Dean when I was over putting cream in my dark roast and wasn't looking.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Lotus' Thai tea and banana cinnamon lassi are YUM. Dean likes the veg fried rice with added basil. I liked my fish sate and chicken summer roll. Mango sticky was pretty good but not sticky. I'm all alert today, the opposite of last time.
Posted at 7:22:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
Makali'i Cafe #2
Posted at 5:36:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
Coconut tempura shrimp = good! (Rhumb Lines-esque)
Spicy edamame = good! (Dean ordered it, and I actually like it!) It's the best edamame I've ever had.
Nojo on our Pine Tree Portal / Pine Tree Tub final dive plan. [We discovered Pine Tree Tub last time we dove at PTP, when we observed some local girls walking to it and playing in it. It looked really fun!] Surf's UP! Lots of curl. Surfiest we've seen it?
Nojo -- Pipe
Nojo -- Crescent
Nojo -- Old A
Nojo -- Dive!
We're going to just let Pebble be our last dive and end on a high note. Everything looks too rough and stirred up today. It wasn't meant to be.
I asked Ralph if he wanted to see my horrific crown-of-thorns injury, and when I showed him he did a slight double take and said, "That's it for you??" Hahaha.
We're "Kona Mountain VIPs," according to KMCGuy. Ha! :-) KMC = The best.
Customer, walking in, "Mmm... smells yummy."
Me, to customer: "It is."
I should be Kona Mountain Coffee's stealth promoter. :-)
Ghost Beach Dude-ing = fun! No one here.
Long in the Tooth game. (Rules: You take turns naming three things that are long in the tooth; two have to be actually long in the tooth and one has to be mean. In between turns, the guy who's not thinking of the three things sings the "Long in the Tooth" theme song.)
Number of times we said "long in the tooth" today: 1 brazillion.
Do Next Time List:
(things we haven't tried yet are in italics)
- Manta restaurant at Mauna Kea
- Ho'okena dive?
- Pipe Dreams
- O's!!!!! :-(
- Keauhou Farmer's Market (natch!)
- South Kona Green Market
- Miloli'i dive
- Pebble Beach 2 tank dive
- Pine Tree Portal dive
- Pine Tree Tub (Dean wants to wear scuba gear and bite Laura's feet; Laura wants to wear only a mask and snorkel and float free, getting washed all around)
- Ke'ei dive
- Ke'ei restaurant
- Mi's
- Roadhouse
- Ghost Beach Dude-ing on composite picnic table atop concrete slab
- Outdoorsing
- Mother's gars
- Mauna Lani Foodland gars
- Puako dive
- Kohala dive shop for silly t-shirts and dive products
- Dara's (if it's not out of business)
- Herb long hot walk (didn't get to do this year)
- Lotus restaurant
- King's Daughters thrift shop
- Aloha Massage Academy
- Overnight trip to Stitch, Oahu, or Maui
- Aloha Angel
- Lots of lulos! (including bananalulos)
- Mike's
- Pahu I'a
- Slurpy oranges (tangelos)
- Sibu replacement (Rapanui Island Cafe)
- Calamansi
- Shave ice
- Hilo Road trip? <--Dean's idea!
- UGG fruit tree self-guided tour
- Burrrrrrrita--wet, w/cheeps (SKGM)
- Kona Mountain!!
- Night dive + Black Water dive?
- Jump the green can w/Josh
- Old A
- Lava Java if in the mood for giant burger + great milkshake
- Chris' Pizza
- find malasadas!
- Makali'i
- wear Hot Socks (Laura)
- Taco Del Mar
- Original Thai
- Royal Thai
- Kenichi (Keauhou branch!)
- Imari
- Target! (should be opening this summer!)
- Take UW photos with Spotlight Guy's assistance
- Interact with/observe the C.G. to see his weirdness/druggedness level [added 3/28]
Long in the Tooth List:
(purposefully abusing meaning)
- Dano's/Tante's
- Mauna Lani Kenichi
- Brewlani
- Tim's
- Rocky's
- Killer Taco (poor Killer! #of times Dean went to Killer on this trip = 0! Blame Taco Del Mar.)
Posted at 5:59:00 AM by Laura W. Petix.
[I actually made this video after I got home, but I'm posting it here since this is closer to when it happened. Includes footage from Pine Tree Portal (x2), Miloli'i, Puako, Ke'ei, and Pebble Beach. The crown-of-thorns with the extended petting/coaxing up session at the beginning of the video is at Ke'ei on Monday. The surrounded-by-urchins one that pricks me in the second verse is Pebble Beach, and the two little ones are from Pine Tree Portal, of course.]
I think the big brother crown from Tuesday is Baby, and the baby is a new little brother! Because I very carefully counted arms, and the baby from last year had 16 and the new little guy has 17. The "big brother" has 16. It makes sense that he'd grow and move out to a more adventurous spot! Wow. My "do you remember when we met" video is kind of false in that case, but it's still a good video, I guess.
Posted at 4:54:00 AM by Laura W. Petix.
Kona Mountain Coffee is reeeeeeeally good. That is all. I'm too tired tonight! I made some decaf in my special smusher and it's GOOD.
Posted at 4:25:00 AM by Laura W. Petix.
P.S. Pebbly = ♥
P.P.S. I got pricked by a ♥crown-of-thorns♥ today! It was blue before but it's practially all better already. Just a little hard in a circle around the tiny red pricky-mark, like a mosquito bite. I can't even feel it unless I press on it really hard. It's on the side of my right index finger, right below the biggest knuckle, in the spot that rubs when I hold a pen. ♥♥♥♥♥!
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Posted at 11:29:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
Ke'ei Cafe Part 2:
- Dean: Eggplant Rolls & Tofu Norm Meal
- Laura: Seafood Chowder (wow!) & walu over Greek salad
- Drinks: Caipirinha (Brazilian national drink) (D), Blue Hawaiian Margarita w/li hing mui rim (L), & Ginger Lemonade (D again)
Dean likes his drink and wants a brazillion of them.
I actually liked my seafood chowder! I also like my blue drink. It's turquoise ocean blue!
Dean: "My meal was cloudlike."
The crazy fish tattoo guy is sitting at the next table!
We stopped at South Kona Fruit Stand one last time, on the way to the restaurant, and Beth was finally there! She gave us both hugs and remembered us by name. She said I looked really relaxed. :-) It was great to see Beth. Today was the day.
[Here's a semi-fuzzy Palma photo of my crown-of-thorns injury at dinner (with my soup in the background). It was still bleeding when we were de-gearing, so I put on a band-aid so I wouldn't get blood on our stuff, but by the time we got to the restaurant it had totally stopped. The spot turned blue (super cool!) and was a tiny bit swollen but it didn't hurt at all.]
Posted at 10:00:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
Dive Slate notes:
Pebble Beach. It's the perfect Pebbly day--calm, lappy, clear, and not hot. Ideal temperature, sun, light breeze. Nice!
CALM, CLAM, CALM! deep & clear and nice!
eye-to-eye with a big stretchy cornetfish [this was wonderful!! he was my pal, and we swam along together] [he looked really cute face-to-face, even though it's hard to see him in the photo. You don't usually get to look at fishes from a let's-shake-hands distance and angle!]
cute spotty eel friend [I love this photo] [it was really cool being that close to him...]
bright & clear & calm
baby wires at only 40'
really pretty blue-colored cushion star
& yellow-patterned one
I want a Pebbly 2-tanker!
nice veiny nudi [varicose phyllidia]
crown surrounded by a legion of urchin pals! veritable nest of spines! fun challenge :-)
I got pricked!!
hurts a little but not as much as those other times
[went right back to touching him two seconds later]
prick = shaka :-)
anticoagulant
bright yellow cushion
lots of nice cushions!
2 more veiny nudibranchs!
beautiful crimson cushion!
one last crown - both almost out of air - switched to snorkels
the dive was 1 hour and 12 minutes but I wanted it to last longer!!!
I retrieved the goodie bag, since I had more air left in my tank. It was deep! Came up really slowly, like Dean instructed, following the wall of coral for entertainment.
hissing pebbles at the shore = nice
Best dive of the trip!
Brewlani! Last chance for Brewlani! Screech! We actually did it.
Posted at 6:25:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
They had Tropical Dreams ice cream (chocolate-caramel; it was good, but no mac nut) but their Kona coffee was bitter.
Weird, the Nasturtium is still/again open?? Tiny, on the side. Must check out next year!
We stopped at South Kona Fruit Stand again, but still no Beth. We talked to the girl on duty instead, and she told us SKFS has a smoothie truck at Honaunau now! We saw the truck when we went there last time, but we didn't get to go because it was gone by the time our dive was over. We didn't know it was theirs! We also bought a Rose Apple to try, since it's a weird food I've never eaten. Yuck, it smells exactly like rose water, and I'm not looking forward to it. Dean is.
The Kona Mountain Coffee guy finally got Dean to try his treat samples! And, he liked the Chocolate Arare (KMC guy's favorite!) so much that he snuck over and bought a package of it! (!!) Haha! :-)
Posted at 12:26:00 AM by Laura W. Petix.
Crazy Big hang-around (Sara, Dean, Dani), close to closing, with no one else in the store, bizarre topics discussed. Slippers, etc. I love those sessions.
Dean's maverick plan = visit the Mauna Lani Kenichi so it would count separately and I could still go to our Kenichi again before we leave. Fun plan, even though it turned out inferior to the Keauhou Kenichi despite the fact that the menu's the same! We also checked out Sansei on the way, solely to settle our bet. :-) Dean even made me go inside to investigate up close, although we had no plans to actually eat there. It was a draw, but we still determined/agreed that it was undesirable as a dining establishment.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Posted at 9:00:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
My shoes feel too tight! [new neoprene socks + my narrow fins = not a good combo! OK at depth, but uncomfortable swimming]
73° again (at 30')
I like swimming all around at 99'.
I love Pine Tree Portal. [That's all. I just LOVE it.]
Father COT
[Big and fat! When Dean was signing "FATHER" I thought at first that he was spelling "FAT"--then I put the word together and figured it out. :-) Baby's father! He didn't want to be picked up, so I just let him be and stroked him lightly with my hand. Petting a crown-of-thorns is wonderful. It's exhilarating!]
Later, I had my nose stuck in something and Dean called me over to show me something he'd spotted. Tiny thorny arms, just barely showing under a pile of coral. (I have no idea how he saw them!) The coral on top of it was just loose rubble, so we removed a couple of rocks and uncovered it. It was another young crown-of-thorns, but a bigger one, like an older brother to the baby we found on our March 2nd Pine Tree Portal visit! It looked much less babyish, but was still super-cute and small, only a couple of inches bigger than the tiny cookie-sized Baby. I counted, and it had 16 feet. Love LOVE! Look how beautiful: top view and ventral (feety!) side. So small and perfect.
I wonder why we've found multiple baby crowns at Pine Tree Portal, but have never ever seen a baby crown anywhere else??? There's something special about that spot. [Later we speculated that it's because PTP is the westernmost point of the island, so it sticks out into the ocean and all those tiny plankton thingies that little guys like to eat sweep by and end up in that spot. (There are lots of baby fishes at Pine Tree Portal, too.) But we just made that theory up, so I have no idea of it's the real reason or not.]
Finally saw Norm!
Posted at 7:31:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
Pipe check = Nope.
Old guy sitting on a bench as I walked from the Oshima parking lot to the Surfin' Tail/massage building: "Good morning, young lady--you've got a beautiful smile." :-)
Posted at 2:58:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
Final Aloha Massage Academy massage. When Samantha saw the bruises on my legs, she asked me if they hurt. I said No, then explained, "I got a little banged up while scuba diving the other day."
Her: "Wow." Then, "You gotta respect Mother Nature."
True!
Samantha was really good; I am very impressed. I gave her a huge tip and told her I'm sure she will be a success in whatever she goes on to do when she graduates.
King's Daughters is nice! Or, it will be. They're still setting it up, but it was open anyway. I found two skirts and a great summer top for only $3 each. A lot of their stuff is Uptown Consignment-quality, but all the money they make goes to help local women in need. I wasn't going to get the second skirt (it's too big, but I can easily modify it), but after the store guy told me about all the good things they do, I bought it anyway.
Posted at 3:03:00 AM by Laura W. Petix.
Dove Ke'ei again this afternoon, and it was nice and clear and calm. Sunny until we had finished our dive and my hair had dried in the warm and breeze; then rainy driving home. Perfect. I tried out my rented Mares Avanti HP fins from Big, and my new Sara Socks. I liked the fins at first; finning felt easy. But then my right ankle started to hurt on the surface swim out, until I ended up kicking with one leg. I'm not sure if it was the fins or socks or the combination, or unrelated to either. I don't see why they'd make my ankle hurt, but the ocean was very calm, so it wasn't like I was struggling against current or fighting through waves. My ankle felt fine once we descended, although I was bugged a little because of the open toes on the fins (my toes felt colder than the rest of my foot!) and the way the water sloshed in my socks a little. The fins are wider than my real ones, so there was more sloshing room. Next I'll have to try the socks with my good old Seac Sub silvers. It's cute; the design Sara drew on them sticks out a little bit below the ankles of my wetsuit!
Dean really liked the dive, but it was a little coraline for me. We did see garden eels, sticking up really high. I swam up above them with my Fake Fins and saw a brave one close enough to see his cute little face. I swam around a lot on my own down in the deep section, swim swim swimming. And we had fun lying on the bottom watching our bubbles float up! I still think scuba bubbles look cool. The visibility was excellent, and there's so much coral at Ke'ei. Just, thick. Old finger coral, and lots of yellow, thickity thick. My dive watch read 73° instead of 72° when we were in the shallower section. Spring is here! Ha.
It was chilly driving back. We were going to eat outside at Island Naturals, but when I stepped out of the Jeep I realized I'd be too cold sitting outside, even with my scuba beater on. It was 69°. I told Dean it's officially cold if it's below 72°, but if it's 72° or above it's pleasant with a beater on. He thinks I'm crazy. [Keep in mind, I'm wearing shorts or a skirt, here, and it's overcast...]
We found a nice cushion star with a tiny pal, a sea star shrimp, or Periclimenes soror. It was so little, it was almost invisible. And it kept running away to the other side of the cushion whenever I turned the star trying to look at it, but it never actually left its pal. The star had blue feet, like my lips. [You can see the Periclimenes soror in the photo.]
We also found a great crown-of-thorns that was munching on some coral, folded over it in an engulfing configuration. First I petted it with my bare hand, very lightly rubbing my open palm over the thorns (like I do with a cushion star, but much more delicately). It felt so neat! Both the sensation itself, and the fact that I was actively rubbing my hand over the thorns, not just touching them. All those razor-sharp thorns! I knew I could've been pricked but at the same time I knew I wouldn't be. You just have to be very gentle.
When I picked it up, a light spot was left behind where it had eaten the coral! I've never seen that before. (Often when I pick up a crown, it's not even on coral.) Even so, when I was finished with my crowning, I put it back in the same place. (I always try to return creatures to right where I found them.) Crowns-of-thorns eating coral is natural, and Hawaii's c-o-t population is small, not out of control. I usually see one or none on a dive--occasionally two.
Anyway, it was a fantastical crown encounter. The crown was all folded over the coral (Dean signed that it was "Cute," and then that its spines looked really tall sticking out like that), and when I coaxed it up, it did the same thing to my bare hand! My hand was all engulfed like it was wearing a hand puppet or a mitt, and I could feel the crown maneuvering itself to surround me, using all its tube feet. It felt really really cool, all around both the fronts and backs of my fingers. The sensitive fronts of my fingers could feel the sensation of all those suctiony feet so acutely; it was just amazing. Dean took a bunch of photos of it on my hand; it seemed very content to stay that way through lots of posing.
Then at a certain point I suddenly noticed: my middle finger was in its mouth. Crown-of-thorns have really a big round mouth in the center of their ventral side--a circular hole ringed by inward-facing spiny teeth. [You can see it pretty well in this photo from 2006.] The teeth are like sea urchin spines, not thorns; they're not sharp, but they're spiky. It can evert its whole stomach through its mouth and use it to digest coral. Anyway, I was suddenly aware that I could feel my finger in its mouth, about up to the first knuckle, with the ring of teeth surrounding it. I mimed to Dean that it was EATING my finger! Hee hee. It wasn't actively munching it, but it had definitely maneuvered it in there; I didn't do it! Luckily a crown-of-thorns' stomach enzymes can't dissolve my finger as easily as they can coral polyps. :-) When I peeled/coaxed the arms away from their embrace of my hand, my finger was still inside the mouth, and, when I could, I popped it out. The front surfaces of all the other fingers were still being grabbed by many feet. That was the coolest. Maybe it thought I was finger coral.
[Edit: Dean also took a gorgeous photo of a blackside hawkfish doing its thing on this dive!]
Monday, March 23, 2009
I want to go on the UGG self-guided fruit tree tour! UGG was good. Tropical Dreams mac nut ice cream + coffee consumed together = best combo ever. We sampled Trop. Dreams lilikoi ice cream! It was good in a small quantity, but probably a bit intense for a whole dish. It's raining! Goin' up the mountain. UGG isn't called UGG anymore. Now it's a cooperative. (Actually it was never called UGG, but you know how that is.)
Posted at 10:34:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
Posted at 1:02:00 AM by Laura W. Petix.
We did a big outdoorsing on the balcony again and I got all caught up on ALB! I really like outdoorsing. Dean does one almost every night, but I usually toil away inside hurting my shoulders sitting on the couch. The outside chair is tons more ergonomic! It got really dark, but Dean rigged the inside lamp so my keyboard and blog notebook were lit but we didn't have to have the big bright outside light on.
We also did a final miracle fruit experiment with the new fruit from the South Kona Green Market. It's far superior to the smushy ones from the Keauhou Farmer's Market, which were only about as effective as the Florida ones. Freshness/handling clearly makes a huge difference in the potency! For the final experiment, Dean ate miracle fruit and I didn't, then we ate the same sour foods and recorded our reactions. I don't have the time/computer horsepower to edit the videos here, but I'll post them after I get home. I'm a little OD'ed on miracle fruit, so I'm glad I got to be the control guy!
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Posted at 8:44:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
South Kona Green Market!
Dean told me I should get two bracelets from the stand where I was admiring them last week, so that's what we did. I have skinny arms and they were all too big when I looked at them before, but he pointed out that the bracelet-making girl could probably shorten them for me. The plan was to get one with lava rock to keep in the Na Hale o Storage and wear while I'm here (because it's bad luck to remove lava from the island!), and one without lava to bring home. Dean picked out the home one for me! It was actually smaller than any of the other bracelets, and fit as it was. It has velvety gray Hawaiian Mgambo/Weleweka seeds, olivine crystals, and turquoise. Even though I really wanted a lava rock one, I thought most of the lava bracelets were too harsh/heavy looking for me, but I found one where the black lava rock beads alternate with olivine and delicate smooth cloudy/swirly round white-colored rose quartz, like little moons. The girl took off one set of olivine chips and one rose quartz bead, and redid the clasp, and now it fits just like the other one! They were only $12 apiece (!!?).
Dean got another "Burrrita - wet!" from the flamboyant Mexican lady, and I had more chicken and nonchicken summer rolls from the Lotus guy. (I know it's repetitive, but I love them!) We also got two lilikoi juices from the Lotus guy since Dean hogged the first one and I only got about two sips. And we fed the L.G.'s ego since it's so fun. (I think he has a big head about how great his food is) (not that it isn't incredibly good...).
We also got another homemade soft cookie sandwich (lemon this time, instead of banana), and brought back one of those Mexican sun cookies that I thought were so pretty last time (they're actually sweet bread and are called conchas! Dean used his google-fu and figured it out for me!) (I got a yellow one; they also had pink) (ironically, Dean didn't know what google-fu is, so I had to explain it to him).
While I was sniffing some soaps, Dean got two big Thai papayas--a new type we've never tried before! Good thing they weren't sold by weight, because they feel like they weigh about 25 pounds!!! Meanwhile, I picked out 2 different handmade honey soaps (only $2.50 apiece!). And we got more miracle fruit, from the same lady, to do a final Flavor Tripping Experiment.
I also bought a card from an artist who showed me all his pieces and explained them all to me and quoted (from memory) the poem he wrote to accompany each one! He was impressed that I knew they were pointillism. Dean thinks he's the weirdest but I pointed out that he knows he's weird so that means he's less weird than guys like the lemon-stomper and the inferior juice guy. Dean argues that the lemon-stomper and inferior juice guy wouldn't believe in an invisible island that you can only see if your heart is pure, and that speaks for itself. Dean: "They may be socially maladjusted but they're not delusional." Laura: "He's just on a higher plane." :-)
For music this week, a psychedelic tunes dude was preforming; the Lotus guy dug him but I wanted more variety like last week. The market wasn't quite as extreme this week and I didn't feel all out of my element this time. 1) we knew the ropes (& I dressed the part); 2) there were fewer hawkers this time; 3) less carnival-esque music. It was still fun though!
Every time I think about the lemon-stomper, I crack up.
