I have been like SO blogless it's not even funny!Had a great weekend. Saturday was spent at the Scottish Highland Games at Kapiolani Park.Like many kanaka here in Hawaii my genealogy traces back to Scotland on my mom and dad’s side. My mom is originally from Canada and she moved here with her mom after meeting my dad on the beach in Waikiki back in ’57. My mom’s side of the family is from Edinburrough , Scotland. My grandmother kept a family bible with geology records going back 800-years. It’s in safe storage now.My dad and ‘ohana are originally from Koloa, Kauai and the Scottish genealogy traces to Waikapu, Maui. The first of the Cummings clan arrived by way of Boston, made it to Maui and married into a Hawaiian family. Sometime after marrying the family moved just outside of Wailuku.The Highland Games have always been on our annual to do list. I guess my first sojourn was back in 1986. Back then with corporate sponsorship the games were huge. Piping bands would come in from all over the US and world. Today’ although much smaller the games and events are still worth attending.I got to meet a great guy named Hiroshi who was in from Vancouver selling Utilikilts. What, you neva heard of one Utilikilt! Check out the web site at http://www.utilikilts.com/I bought my first one about four years ago and picked up another one, the Workmans model as my number two.Easy to wear, comfortable and great in hot weather. The only thing better than this for ventilation is my malo!Saturday night was a nice quiet evening with the missus watching the last evening of the Merry Monarch competition on TV.Sunday we headed back out to the Highland Games and took my mom and my dad. My parents had a blast as it had been about three years since they last attended.Sunday night we had planned a small dinner/talk story party with our halau family. Around 5:30PM my bro Keali’i rolls up and in his van is enough food to feed one kau of Kamehameha’s warriors. I mean, braddah brought the equivalent of half a cow, half a pig, wine, cookies AND poi dinner rolls. Okay, so the party of four cannot consume that much food.Well after several hurried invites and two hours later we filled the Cummings hale with eight hungry kanaka kane and wahine. Even with that we STILL had choke food. At least no need worry about lunch and dinner for the next couple of days!Well it’s Monday, another friggin’ work day. Speaking of work I better end this blog and get back to it!
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