Blogs from Big Island, Hawaii, United States, North America - page 35

I am all kinds of tired at the moment so i'll try to shorten this as much as possible... i woke up at 3:00 this morning and called Bryan to see if he was still coming cuz the scott's said he loves to sleep and they really didnt think he was gonna come... so anyway i called him and he answered immediately and said he's in the neighborhood and will be here in 10 seconds. He was so awake and hyper i was like whaaaat... lol but anyway I'll write more later. And i know i keep saying that, but for real i will... i'll just write enough to be able to go into detail later. So now i'll put up a load of pictures and describe them as well as i can. Dave took almost ... read more

I think i left with Friday, right? Saturday - just because i knew i was allowed to sleep in as late as possible, of course my eyes spring open at 7:30. Tell me i've gotta be awake by 9, and i'll sleep all day. I'm weird. We did a lot of cleaning and grocery shopping Saturday in preparation of Sunday's plans. The Scott's bookstudy was assigned to feed Sunday's visiting speaker for their hall, so we were going to cook for that; we were asked to bring a covered dish to the party in the afternoon, and since Dave was the outgoing speaker at another hall and a family had us for hospitality, Kathy wanted to make something to bring. Saturday evening, someone from their bookstudy called and said we dont have to bring anything, and ... read more

I've been hounded for not updating the past couple days. Truth be told, there hasn't been enough exciting activity to merit blocking up your e-mail lately; we went to Macy's the other day... it's not nearly as big as the ones we're used to, but they had a decent sized one. Every store common to the Carolina's has somewhat of a Hawaiian flavor to it here... everything in Wal-mart has some type of floral print on it, or some sort of Hawaiian greeting.. no winter clothes, no boots.. I've heard things are outrageously expensive here, but so far the majority seems pretty comparable to back home. Of course, Macy's was having an awesome presidents' day sale. Yesterday evening was service meeting. A sister brought a huge box of apple bananas and baking bananas to give away. ... read more

My first week in Hawaii has come to a close. I'm sure each week hereafter will fly by just as quickly as the first. The atmosphere here is so different from the Mainland; time is not especially priority here... people get things done at their own leisure and enjoy the scenery on the way. This kind of lifestyle would drive most Mainlanders crazy i suppose, but it's a pleasant temporary change. After yesterday's entry, i went up to take a nap, say around 3:30... Dave woke me up around 6:15 so we could catch the sunset... but no lie, i could have slept through the night. I must have been extremely exhausted, huh? The sunset was pretty intense, but i think it's still holding out. I've been promised a wonderful view from the Hilton... I forget ... read more

I'm putting more pictures up from yesterday... maybe just because i dont have any from today :) Meeting was nice. 118 people there today. I'll get a picture of the hall later if i get a chance. Today i think we're gonna take it easy... yesterday was enough activity for a week :) As far as i know, we're going to one of the active volcanos tomorrow afternoon... i hope to get some good pictures there. Ok i'll put a few pictures up and then i'm taking a nap. Ciao!... read more