Today was a family day. But not in the usual sense.
My day started at 6AM with an early start to catch the Redskins game with long-time Redskins season ticket holder SonnyRules from the ExtremeSkins message board.
You may remember our get-together last year. It was the first time I got to watch a game with a "real" Redskins fan!
This year we met again at JJ's Broiler. His wife May Ling is a Ravens fan so we got a table where all of us could watch monitors of our teams playing. It was like a family reunion. We exchanged some presents and picked up right where we left off last year- and enjoyed a Redskins WIN (Hip hip, Hooray!) to boot! Next year we'll do it again.
Afterwards, they went to enjoy the Coconut Festival and I headed to ProfessionNail to get my special football season pedicure and manicure.
This time, I had them combine the green UH logo and the burgundy and gold curly R for the Redskins.
After my weekly shopping at Costco, I joined my fellow Baha'is and friends and family at the Riveras' house in Lawai to welcome the newest member of our Ohana- Linda O'Dell.
Linda has come to Kauai from Texas as a Baha'i homefront pioneer to help us organize and systematize our activities to grow and expand our services to our community.
What a trooper! She willingly tried all the new foods we put before her- including chili pepper ahi poke and Portuguese bean soup!
There was a delicious cake to celebrate Linda's arrival as well as three recent birthdays from among the group.
I love it- wherever you go in this world, people can enjoy the things they love - whether it be a football team or sharing of the spirit - and find an instant ohana- an instant family- of people who share in that love!
I'm too sleepy to complete this entry but I will start with some of my favorite Washington Redskins cartoons by Jorge. See them at http://www.goskins.org/
(If you don't know the Redskins... this player's name is BETTS. His preseason game jersey ID was misspelled... and the Redskins did not play well -vs- the Ravens.)
Colt Brennan and Chase Daniel with the Cooley Zone - reflections of a Redskins NFL sophomore and rookie after the Steelers preseason game.
Our Hawaii Warrior Season Tickets have arrived!
This year, I am in the blue section- which means a horizontal walk around Aloha Stadium rather than a vertical spiral into yellow.
Gracious is the word I associate with Colt Brennan.
On the field, guiding the University of Hawaii to two of the best football seasons in history
and his preseason rookie debut with the NFL Washington Redskins last year it was GOOD GRACIOUS!
Check out his snap-passes during this fun segment with Antwaan Randel-El and the Redskins recievers.
Off the field, he appears cordial from afar.
In person, he is Mr. Gracious.
Observation: Colt is a focused person. When he is doing something, he is in the moment. On the field, he does his job until coach tells him to sit down or they have to carry him off. Off the field, at a fan appreciation function, he is 100% there for you as a fan until his managers gently escort him to the next spot.
Outstanding. Gracious. Generous. Humble. Just another local boy whose parents brought him up right.
Kudos to Betsy and Terry Brennan- and his sisters!
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I actually was privileged to meet MANY gracious people on Thursday:
Governor Lingle at the Chamber luncheon, Ashley Lelie, Davone Bess
Ryan Mouton, the Tsai-kos, 3 generations of McMackins
Stephen Tsai and Coach Mack, chief blog lurker and Chevron sponsor, and Go! flight attendant Patrick and a pilot- without whom, I would have been stuck on Kauai.
