Hamura Saimin

 We made our second stop at Hamura Saimin in Lahue yesterday. There seems to be no web page for for the "stand" unless you count Yelp and TripAdvisor. They are that type of no nonsense restaurant in an industrial district kind of place. Every culture must have a form of "Chicken soup" or ramen - some type of noodle-based soup. Saimin is native Hawaiian. 

We were in Lahui because Cindy and I decided we should upgrade our iPhones. We are on a plan through ATT so there was no reason not to get more recent models. The newest cameras are great and we mostly rely on our phones for photography. The opportunities for photos will never be better.

I would be remiss if I did not mark that day as the beginning of the Russian aggression into the Ukraine. We follow Russian events like most Americans and have a unique interest having visited Russia and having people we value as friends both in Russia and now living in the U.S. Two of these friends happen to be staying with us now and they have been on their phones talking with friends and relatives in both Russia and Ukraine. They have already been through one war in their lives moving to Russia when escaping the Chechen war. The world is so interconnected everyone ends up impacted by war, but not like those who must face it directly.