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Friday, July 18, 2008
my sunny day on catalina island

I remember Catalina Island to be a place where you can only drive golf carts around and that we rented a vacation house where I slept in a room with pictures of unknown kids on the wall – creepy, in my opinion. Our family ventured out to the dock to go shopping one sunny afternoon and it somehow ended up just being gong-gong and I strolling along together. This is probably the only time I remember being alone with my grandpa. I went inside a store while he waited for me outside. I found a t-shirt with 3 dogs wearing beach clothes with “beach bums” written across the bottom and thought it was too cute to not buy. I realized I had no money on me and none of my usual allowance-investors were around. I then remembered that gong-gong always had money on him even though he rarely used it. I shyly asked if I could borrow money from him and began to explain what I wanted to purchase, why I wanted to purchase it, and would promise to pay him back, etc. but was cut off by gong-gong’s immediate action of handing me over 50 bucks. Not only was this way too much for the t-shirt but he gave it to me so willingly and generously. He would probably never ask for it back and was beaming to provide for me something that I wanted. To this day, I still wonder if he was more happy about providing for me or if I was more happy with a silly souvenir t-shirt.
I will always remember that sunny day on Catalina Island, gong-gong.
Love always, Holmine