The major activity today was a trip to the dentist. One hour each way into Kailau for a 20-minute appointment to re-cement a bridge in my mouth that had come loose. The bad news is that this is a temporary fix. I’ll need to come back to have a root canal done so a post can be put into the remains of one of the teeth holding the left side of the bridge. There just isn’t much tooth left. One of my many body issues is a mouth full of pretty poor teeth. I think I’m down to three teeth left that haven’t had a root canal done. My dad had poor teeth and I remember when he had the last of them pulled when I was about 6 years old when we were living in Tooele, Utah. He had false uppers and lowers for the rest of his life.

Each day in the evening right around sunset we get some beautiful light in the sky. At this time of the year the sun sets just to the right of the Laie Temple. By the time we get to the summer solstice, the sun will set directly behind the Temple. We also usually have partly to mostly cloudy skies as we approach sunset which makes for some pretty dramatic sunsets which the iPhone camera cannot capture. This picture is a “ghostly” representation of what the Temple looks like about twenty minutes before sunset.

Today I met several people from Vancouver, British Columbia, a place that we’ve visited when taking cruises to Alaska. It was fun to talk to these folks about their beautiful city, the rose gardens, and the eclectic eating establishments. I also talked with a couple from Manila who did business with a company I used to work for and sent me to the Philippines on several business trips. I talked with a couple from Louisiana about a couple of restaurants in New Orleans (not in the Bourbon Street area) and their delicious shrimp dishes. Another couple were from Nova Scotia and had arrived yesterday after a fourteen-hour airplane ride. These were just some of the people who visited the Laie Temple Visitors’ Center today. Each day has such a diverse set of people, including a Chinese couple from mainland China who, after I had asked them in (poor) Chinese if I could take their picture, insisted on having me in the picture with them. Another photo album has an unknown white guy who spoke a few words of Chinese.

Life is delightful!