Jazz for Jesus

We have been attending a Presbyterian church called Trinity Church since we moved to Hawaii. We have a great group of Christian friends that we met there and have Bible study with on Sunday nights. We like the church and the pastor but the worship music is lacking a bit. The songs that are done are usually overplayed worship songs from the 90s that lack much depth. Stephen decided about a month or so ago to join the worship band to see if he could influence the quality of the music. Since he volunteered, he has played the drums, bongos and the sax. I didn’t even know he could play the drums! The last two Sunday’s he has done the special music with a guy in our church who has written the songs and Stephen just “jams” to it. Here are the 3 videos I was able to get from my cell phone of the song he did last week. You can’t really see him (I was sitting in the very back because I was on call that week) and you’ll need to turn the volume up all the way to hear him too. But he sounded great and I am so proud of him! (I call it "Jazz for Jesus" because that is what the woman sitting behind me in churh said when Stephen was playing :o)

Polo

Well I have discovered that the awesome game of polo is in existence in Oahu. There is a great field right along the beach. We decided to get some friends from church together and go to the last game of the season. We drove out there with the two dogs in the back of the truck and parked on the edge of the field just a few yards from the beach. It is certainly interesting experience. There are some people there who are in fancy dresses and big hats and then there are people BBQing out of the back of their truck with shirt off and beer in hand. If you have never watched polo I would highly suggest it. There is nothing like watching horses gallop down a 300 yard field with riders with croquet like sticks hitting a soft ball size ball. Unfortunately I gave Stephen the task of taking pictures during the game in which we ended up with not a single picture of the actual game. Silly boy :o) Here are some of the pictures we did get. Mostly of the dogs playing on the beach at half time. Lilo loves to fetch her ball in the water. Willow is still not too sure about the water but loves to play the sand (you'll see what I mean when you see the last picture).