today i had a good day with my son. there were things that i could have said, but didn't; instead, we just played together. after his soccer game, we drove to toys r us, and we chose out action figures to play with. it is something he likes to do, play with them, and as it was something that i used to do (so long ago), i thought it would be a good thing to do together. he chose the toy story 3 hero set of small plastic figurines (with 7 characters). after that, we went over to the beautiful park in nuuanu, and played with our action figures on the jungle gym. it was great to just play with my son, not caring about what we had to do, or what anyone would think. i think that he had a lot of fun too. afterwards, we played a bit of soccer on the upper field of the park, with him aiming to hit the mango tree with his ball. it wasn't about skills or anything, just working the ball. then, we drove to costco for his suggested lunch, which was hot dogs, and stopped off at a store in the dole plantation center that sells some anime stuff. we looked around (aiden wanted to get a japanese transformer version of buzz lightyear, but i declined to buy it), and then drove home.

in the afternoon/evening, aiden, willow and i drove over to honbushin for the daikon festival. the kids always have fun at it. strange, but it's been almost every year that we've gone. it is kind of a watermark for us... was it a couple of years ago? i tried to do a sword form on stage. this year, it's all about the senior groups providing the entertainment, which is very different from a lot of other festivals. the daikon festival has been steadily growing in popularity, and on this evening, there weren't very many places to sit. the kids made a pinwheel, played a couple of games (tissue paper nets trying to catch rubber balls, tissue paper fishing lines trying to pull up balloons), made some sort of monkey-climbs-the-rope toy, and drew pictures for the mikoshi... and then, it was off to home...

i sat on the sofa upstairs, and tried to practice on the guitar, with a few finger strengthening exercises and barre chords. and not long after lynn came home, i kind of passed out.

aiden mentioned to willow (close to the end) that he'd had a great day. and for that, i was happy...