The Search for Meat Juhn (and a way to heat up the leftovers)...

My sister Dawn lives on the island of Molokai. This tiny little place of less than 7,000 residents has few stores to choose from and outrageous prices because everything has to be shipped in by boat.

So before she headed back to Molokai yesterday afternoon, she naturally wanted us to make a stop at the bargain hunters playground.

Welcome to Wal-Mart Hawaii.

But in typical Hawaii fashion, you cannot just offer the same old stuff you'd find at any Wal-Mart. Consider the aisle filled with sheets and bedding...



Looks perfectly normal from afar.

But take a closer look at the prints on the comforters...



Even the lampshades have their own unique Hawaiian style...



But enough of Wal-Mart.

Let's get to discussing what really brings people to Hawaii.

Welcome to the wonderful world of Korean food!

While the older three kids of ours stayed behind with Grandma, the other three got to enjoy a real treat as we visited Dawn's favorite Korean restaurant.

Of course, I had to sample the Meat Juhn and Fried Mondoo...



Kekoa got a lesson in chopsticks from his cousin Shawn which he quickly began to master...



Of course, back in Hawaii for the first time in a number of years, we had to have Korean food for dinner as well.

So we orders a few trays of food from what was supposed to be Soon's Kal-bi, the greatest take-out Korean restaurant in the world. But what do we find when we stop by Soon's -- it was bought by another Korean couple some 9 years ago and renamed Moon He's.

The original Soon's was in Salt Lake (not the city in Utah, the area on O'ahu). We'll have to make a trek there at some point to see if they're still in business.

As for Moon He's, thankfully, the food was still just as good...



So Cari, my brother Jimmy and my Dad got to work...



While Bretty, Nalani and Malia wanted to eat outside on the deck overlooking Pearl Harbor...



Back tracking for just a moment, yesterday morning I tried to heat up a few things in the microwave oven -- which was making all sorts of strange and odd noise. Frankly, it just wasn't working the way it should.

While not having a functioning microwave isn't normally that big a deal, today was different.

Both Cari and I knew that we'd undoubtedly have leftover Korean food. Without a high quality top notch microwave, how were we to be able to heat up these leftovers for breakfast.

So we decided to rectify this terrible problem and it was off to Home Depot.

Here's my mom arriving home that evening to her new surprise...



Unfortunately, unlike Home Depot in Las Vegas, this one wouldn't install it for us (even if we paid!).

So it was up to Jimmy, me and Dawn's son Donovan to undertake the task of installing this new machine.

In practice, that meant Jimmy and I stood back giving our expert advice and counsel while this guy did all the hard work...



Of course, Donovan is a carpenter and knows his way around tools.

Just consider the new tool he invented to help maneuver the venting into place...



Thank goodness his Grandma just got a new microwave oven. She didn't even notice the butter knife that was missing!