It was a great afternoon - made for a party to welcome to our wild and wacky world, a new addition coming in May to the Honzakis, Her Beloved Highness (HBH) Sophia Grace. So Tutu Nancy, aunties and uncles were in attendance at Paul Gagnon's beautiful home in Kailua. It was also the setting for Tami and George's wedding shower last year, so it was only proper (according to Gerri) that we have it at the same place. And like last year, we ordered Chinese from Kin Wah, onoliciously augmented by Tutu's yakisoba, Phyllis's potato salad and Armie's homemade rolls. The moist and yumyum cake from Zippy's was paired with Penny's dreamy almond float (see recipe below).
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| Front: Robert Burkhard, Tami and George Honzaki and Paul Gagnon; Second row: Armie Burhard, Larry and Gerri Sylvester, Dale Mahi, Tanya Mau-Halsall, Divina Robillard, Nancy Fujino, Kathy O'Connor, Ronaele Whittington, Phyllis Johnson; Back Row: Brad Chun and Paul Mahi |
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| Penny Chun takes Divina's spot while Divina clicks away. |
It was a also a day for catching up, as we rarely see the Mahis, Phyllis, the Burkhards, Tanya, and the Chuns, except for HALS events such as our annual yard sale, caregiver happenings, and socials. So is it any wonder, why our socials are always something we look forward to and perennially a-buzzzzzzzz?
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| That was not Kathy's headgear for the day; it is a lovely sculpture. Phyllis laughs away. |
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| The men in wheels chat away: Paul, our wonderful host, and Robert. |
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| Lovely ladies Penny, Tanya and Dale |
Tanya, our young mom closer in age to events brought about by weddings and storks, brought games such as the "Guess What's in the Diaper" game. Enjoyed by the group of course!
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| Dale inspects a diaper. |
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| The Honzakis meditate on diaper on hand - one of the many in their future but not quite as delectably nice-smelling.
For live action on the "Tinkle to the Loo" game (locally translated as "Hapai Making Shi-shi on the Lua"), watch Tanya's video, herein pasted from YouTube.
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The opening of presents drew lots of oooohs and aaaaahs as Tami lifted them from gift bags or ripped their paper wraps. Of course, the gift that got the most admiration was the handmade quilt that Aunties Ronaele, Phyllis and Penny, Tutu Nancy and I helped put together.
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| This princess is going to have lots of costume changes! |
The capstone of the afternoon is watching incredulity, wonder, and a mixed bag of reactions when I took out a bottle of gourmet civet coffee, also known as "cat poop coffee," to share.  |
| Hmmmmmm. Yum yum good. |
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| Ronaele reacts when she hears she is drinking coffee from berries that made it through a feline alimentary system! |
And here's the famous Almond Float by our very own Barefeet Contessa Penny Chun:
ALMOND FLOAT
Unflavored gelatin (4 T or 4 envelopes),
Water
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 1/2 cups (or 1 12-oz can) evaporated milk
3 T Almond extract
mandarin oranges, fruit cocktail, canned lychee
Dissolve gelatin in 1 cup water. Set aside. Boil sugar in l cup of water. Add gelatin mixture to sugar mixture and stir until completely dissolved. Add milk and 4 cups water and almond extract. Refrigerate until set, about 4 hours or overnight. Cut into cubes and serve with the fruits.
Using milk
or soya milk or rice milk
Dissolve 4T. gelatin with l c. of water
Heat l c. of water with l l/2 c. of sugar and dissolve. Then
add gelatin/water mixture till gelatin dissolves.
Add 5 l/2 c. of milk and 3T. of almond extract. Refrigerate for @4 hours till
set. Cut into cubes.
Add fruit cocktail, mandarin oranges, lychee or whatever
fruits you desire.
There were many fond memories made this day, the better to share with HBH Sophia Grace when she finally makes her royal entrance.
Our thanks to Paul who opened his home again for this event; Gerri for being such a sweet hostess; Larry for sharing his gift of artistic decoration; Phyllis, Armie, Penny and Nancy for more food; Tanya for the fun games; and the supporting cast of aunties and uncles who made the afternoon a time to remember!
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