Sailors and Sex

 

So Kamehameha Day is a holiday for me...YAY!! But this year I actually did something worthwhile. A good friend of mine and family retired from the Navy on Kamehameha Day. He chose this day because he attended Kamehameha Schools, he was stationed aboard the USS Kamehameha and so it seemed only fitting. You know how it is local style...so even though there's no blood relation, he and his wife are "Uncle" and "Aunty" and both have been huge supports in my life...during my teenage years, as a new wife, when I lost my dad...sometimes you don't realize how much people do for you until you reflect on it...

I don't think I've ever attended a servicemen retirement ceremony. It was very touching...a mixture of who he was as a Navy Man, a Hawaiian Man, and a Man of God...he made me so proud...of him, of his wife and family, of being Hawaiian, and being American. As part of the ceremony they performed a tradition where the flag is passed, very slowly and solemnly, between Sailors, with Uncle Sean (the honoree/retiree) as the last to receive the flag. Another sailor (notice my abundant use of the term "sailor" I prefer "sailor" over "seamen" I'm 28...but that word still makes me laugh!) is reading a statement as if he were the flag, reminding us of its importance, where it's been, and what it's had to endure.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There was a navy band there to accompany the ceremony...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And just look at the enthusiasm on the face of the audience...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just kidding...those are the bros from L-R Justin, Army Guard, Mike, Active Duty Air Force, Sa, and Peter. And of course being us...we couldn't resist some kodak cheesin'!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A montage of Uncle Sean talkin' to all his kids. He told us how just a few days prior he had his official last day at work. It was a "chicken skin" moment as he took off his daily uniform and laid them out on his bed...realizing that was the last time he would do it after 20+ years of doing it. Wow...when you think of retirement its all "Woohoo...it's over!!" But thats a huge chapter in your life that is coming to an end...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Afterwards Uncle Sean, Aunty Jade, and their family hosted us to an AWESOME Hawaiian food lunch! The food was so good...and I was so hungry...I straight forgot to snap ANY pix of it...but trust me it was good. Imagine my plate, cafeteria style with the 5 compartments, going clockwise, starting in the top left corner...chicken long rice, lomi lomi salmon and poi, squid luau, rice & kalua pig, and sweet potato! YUM!!

 

 

 

Congratulations Uncle Sean!!

 

 

 

 

Afterwards we (meaning the girls) hit up the movie I've been dying to see...

It was SOOO good!! Exactly what I had hoped for...I laughed...I cried...I've been completed! It's one of those movies I could've watched for 2 1/2 more hours!! Well it wasn't that long, but still pretty lengthy!! I can't wait for the DVD to come out!! Plus I think I'm gonna go and watch it again with my sister...this time at the $1 theatre!!

All in all a great way to spend my Kamehameha Day holiday!!