We arrived at 8 pm at night. My internal clock was not set and it was 1 o'clock in the morning in Dallas! My foot had a pain from flying so much, and it hurt when I walked. The first day, we explored our hotel room and our location. It turned out that there is one major chain store named "ABC store". It is almost like the 7 eleven shop. After we explored our location, we decided to swim in Waikiki beach. My mom bought me a wet suit and it covered my neck to my thigh. The beach had some [View Full Entry]

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June 16 The birds chirping outside of my window wake me each morning. They make the strangest calls, mimicking each other back and forth, so by 7:30am I’m usually awake. I woke up excited to hike. I showered, packed, got dressed, and waited….nothing. Around 9am I texted Greg to see if we were still on, and at 10 he called to tell me that he’d have to go in the afternoon. Bummer.. With nothing else planned I decided to go on my own hike. The buses around here are plentiful and I found a route that runs not far from my [View Full Entry]

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June 15-16 These past two days have been so uneventful, they really don’t even deserve a blog, but it’s my main source of communication with people, so I will blog anyway. I spent just about 24 hours in bed sleeping as much as I possibly could. I rented movies for entertainment including…”The Visitor”, “Yes Man”, & “Thank You for Smoking”. I appreciated the story, but “The Visitor” wasn’t as good as I expected. “Yes Man” was funny and definitely reminded me of what I’m doing here. And &ldqu [View Full Entry]

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Welcome to the AMAZING Island of Hawai'i or The Big Island My friend Krista and I had a fantastic adventure that started at 4 am on Sunday morning... The things we do to travel to paradise! After a 45 minute flight from Honolulu to Hilo, we picked up our jeep and were on our way at 7am.. hehe. First thing on our list was to go waterfall chasing. We set my Garmin (new Garth) to Rainbow Falls and we were off... The city of Hilo has about 40,000 residents, but you would never know it! It's pretty, spread out, and has [View Full Entry]

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June 13 Usually, I wait until the very end of the day to type my blog because I am always hoping for a little more to write about. It’s 3pm here and I’m ready for sleep….I think today is over already. I was surprised that it was as easy as it was to get out of bed this morning. But by 8:10am I was out the door on my way down to Niketown for their Saturday morning group run. It’s about a 40 minute walk from my house to Niketown - there’s a giant golf course in between my house and [View Full Entry]

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June 12 At 7am I woke up to movement upstairs. It was Bill’s voice - Yes! It was the first time I’d heard him since the day I got here, so I wasted no time. I ran upstairs to say hi. We talked for a few minutes and I even got him to remove the cockroach from the basement. On a side note I also mentioned to him these little dead bugs that had reappeared on the countertop downstairs. A few days earlier I had seen them, but the next day they were gone. It freaked me out, but sometimes I’d [View Full Entry]

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June 10, 2009 12 hours of sleep last night. How about that! I woke up at 9am this morning with intentions to go for a run, but ended up watching "Australia" on my computer for an hour while lying in bed. Good choice of movie to bring, so far I've watched it for 2 days and still have another hour left to watch. Before I left home, I emailed a guy on Craigslist about a road bike he had for sale. Coincidentally, he is originally from Scottsdale and we're roughly the same age. He and his father run a masonry business [View Full Entry]

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Thurs, June 11 ***blog down all day yesterday...you have no idea how happy it made me to see it up and working again today and with 9 comments!!!! Thank you! Here's yesterday's blog. I'll have a new one tonight too. What a good day. Sitting down at 9:30 pm, I realize that I did so much today. No wonder I’m tired. Christine says I need to be the “yes girl” like the movie. Say yes to everything. I do kind of feel like that. 5:30am I woke up and decided to hike Diamond Head Crater; what better time of day than [View Full Entry]

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June 8, 2009 Honolulu, Hawaii at 2am? Hmm..well as start this blog it’s 11 here in Honolulu and I’m not sure that sleep will come anytime soon. I’m not sad. It’s not that. I’m just…overwhelmed. I guess that it could’ve been predicted, but I sure didn’t see it coming. What a day. Back up to how this crazy idea began... I was hiking Camelback with Molly and Jim just two weeks ago when I reflected on my current situation and said, “Maybe I should look into spending the summer in Hawaii. I don’t have anything else [View Full Entry]

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I'm so excited to share with you my photos from a fantastic dive! The World War II Corsair fighter went down during a routine training mission in 1946. The pilot safely got to shore and is said to be alive and well and living on Molokai. The Corsair sits upright and intact at 105 feet down. Large eels can be seen under the wings and occasionally in the cockpit. Surrounding the plane wreck are thousands of garden eels swaying back and forth. Schools of goatfish and soldier fish within the fuselage. The visibility was over 100 feet ... which was amazing [View Full Entry]

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