Goodbye Couch.

It has been a while, so we must catch our lovely blog readers up on our crazy lives...

Last week we ended the weekend with jobs and hanging out in waikiki. It has been great to people watch, lay out, and hang out downtown. Our lives have been a bit crazy so here is what each of us have been doing...

Will enjoys waking up at 6 am to surf, fix his bike petals, and provide the family with fresh fruit or free furniture from the streets. 

Brendan enjoys getting hit on at work his first night, long boarding, and stringing his guitar. 

Kendra has been occupied with mites all over her body, I wonder where she got them? She is currently in the process of starting a new job at a restaraunt here in HI. 

Julia and Lindsey have been nannying and studying for summer school. We also love to hitchhike and make new friends with Orlando. 

Will, Brendan, and Kendra hiked Manoa Falls and possibly went swimming in the fresh filled waterfalls. In our freetime, we have gone to the park a block away where we kill time playing frisbee before we all go to work. Oh how we love $1 movies...we trecked across town and enjoyed a great night of movies and family dinner. 

We look forward to our next adventure together!

Peace and Love, 

The Family. 

Goodbye fleas, hello birdies.

Today was not quite as adventurous as the past few have been, however, the good news is that (we think) the bugs are out of our sofa. After a trip to Wal-mart to pick up some bug killer we successfully doused our sofa in chemicals and now the bugs are in a better place.

As for the birdies...Let's just say that Will and Brendan thought it would be cool to lure birds into our home with cereal crumbs. Upon returning home from a trek to the beach, Kendra enters:

Kendra (flustered): "PEOPLE!!! there are birds in our house!!!"

 

Boys (silent, stare): "Can you stay in the back for a while? We don't want you to scare the birds away."

The End. 

We went to midweek service tonight, and loved it as always!!!

That's all for today, we miss everyone and send our love!

Julia. Lindsey. Kendra. Brendan. William

Yes, our sofa has FLEAS.

Dearest loyal blog followers,

We sincerely apologize for the past week or so with no posts. It's been craaaaaazy! We have a new home, new friends, and new jobs, well kind-of.

Instead of recapping each day moment by moment, we decided it would be beneficial to make the most of your time and our time just including the highlights.

One week ago we arrived at the airport greeting Kendra, Brendan, and Will with Aloha spirit. They loved it, and soon enough we made the trek to our new place. Upon opening the door we began to sweat, and in fact we haven't stopped sweating to this day. The new kids decided it would be in their best interest to begin job searching immediately, and 2 days later they have jobs, but Will has decided to play hard to get, and skips job interviews to go camping. Needless to say, he is still looking. 

Sidenote: We made a few extra friends!!!!!!! Shout out to Luke from Knoxville, TN and Darla, well she is from Hawaii, and her hips don't lie.

Well, to begin our adventures we started out with a trip to Don Quijote. It was an experience and as we thought of it to be a grocery store it was actually an asian supermarket. We proceeded our trek to the bus with one million groceries in hand (including a watermelon). 

Twenty bananas, a coconut, and a pummelo were found on Kahala Beach by Will and Brendan. We can always count on them for providing the food for the family. They'll even go to the top of a tree to pick us the freshest fruit. Julia found a new fruit in the ocean called a pummelo, we renamed it a seatrus -get it- citrus.

The next day we headed to the beach once again, however, our plans were delayed once we spotted a beautiful sofa on the side of the road. Some kind person knew that we were in need, and decided to leave theirs in their pile of trash along with a chair and a mattress. We rolled all of them down the 4 blocks to our house and now we have furniture, and Will has a bed, with fleas. After a long hot day of rearranging furniture we headed to China town with hopes of seeing Amos Lee in Concert. Well, we didn't quite make it into the show, but instead we had a personal show on the sidewalk with the other people that didn't get into the show. Amos Lee, what a cool guy!

**As we sit and type this blog, Lindsey is killing fleas on Brendan that have escaped from our sofa. SICK.

After church on Sunday we headed to the North Shore, and introduced Will, Brendan, and Kendra to Acai Bowls and Pipeline Beach. They loved both, and we had a splendid day in the sun!

Yesterday (Monday) was quite a long day, and at approximately 10 pm we decided to catch the 10:30 bus to Waimanalo Bay, and camp out on the beach. We weren't quite sure where the bus went, and after asking the bus driver for some help he brought us to the beach and we walked to find a spot. After passing some local folks already camping out, we decided to take a stroll down the beach to find a good spot. We found what seemed to be a good spot, and set up camp! Some of us slept, and some of us kept watch of the flashlights down the beach gradually moving towards us. They seemed to be searching for something, and I guess that now is a good time to mention that camping is illegal on the beach. Oops must have been a cop. They gradually got too close for comfort and we peaced out to the 7-11 a few miles down the road. After we had a late night/morning snack we were soon greeted by a friendly fellow named William. Let's just say that an hour later we had said 3 words and he gave us a lot of great advice. By that time the sun was rising and we made our way back to the beach to watch it. It was SO incredible and gorgeous to watch. After the sun rose we threw up a couple of hammocks in the greatest "bungalow" tree that there ever was. We passed out for a few hours, and then, 7 hours later Will is currently the color of hmm.. Cheerwine?

Ok we will keep y'all updated, this is only the beginning of many great adventures!

Much Love from the roomates,

Wendy, Hulia, KeEEG, Wilma, Brenda

May 24, 2009

Currently, I am watching Julia stomp on a village of ants making their home right next to our twin air mattress. It makes us excited to move into our new apartment tomorrow! 

WOW our friends will be here soon (tuesday) and we can only imagine our adventures when they get here. Brendan, Will, and Kendra oh my were so excited. Be prepared and have a safe flight.

ok so to catch up on a few days...

Friday we headed to the North Shore once again. Its our favorite*. We ate acai bowls and went to pipeline beach again. Pipeline is usually flat in the summer, but not today. The current was really strong and for the second day in a row, a wave crashed on us. My book for school was completely drenched. Do you think my teacher will believe me when I turn my homework in and say "excuse the soggy paper and sand?" To end the night we ended the night with Sushi on Waikiki and watched the beautiful sunset. 

Saturday we did a little more job searching. Bahahaha. We then went to babysit where we sat in the hot tub, pool, and worked out. I parted ways with Julia and she stayed with Sean. 

Sunday we went to One Love. After church, we got lunch (acai bowls) and went to Sandy Beach. Sandy Beach is known as the number one neck injury/back injury capital in the world. It was amusing watching the body surfers, boogie boarders, and tourists get dominated by the enormous waves. Sandy beach is located right where 50 first dates was filmed* We are just enjoying the weekend and Memorial Day before looking for more jobs this next week. We will inform you all soon. So keep praying. Our Lord is awesome and mighty and we are so blessed to be here. We love you all!!!!

shaloha (shalom + aloha), 

lindsey and julia.  

*Since tat parlors are everywhere, we were thinking about getting one; any suggestions on what? we really want a dolphin tat ... k we look forward to hearing your suggestions. thanks.*

Just in case, our new address is: 

748 Isenberg Apt H

Honolulu, HI 96826

May 21, 2009

May 20: 

As we headed to the Ala Moana Center we hiked through the graveyard again and got on the bus. This time, we made friends with the bus driver, Ernie. He was precious and we talked to him for a while. Lets just say we got all day bus passes. We will now be on the look out for Ernie. 

Julia and I had a couple interviews and they went great. One was a lovely group interview, those always make me laugh. We are just waiting to hear back... 

We ate our usual dinner (pizza) and hung out last night at the house. It was great to sit back and relax. 

May 21:

Julia and I woke up and went to the private beach, Black Point. Its wonderful, sometimes. 

Its a very narrow beach, so as we were laying there a wave came and literally crashed right on us. Lets just say my phone may not be working :(  It was hilarious as we searched for our things underneath the water. 

Hiking was on our agenda today! We hiked Manoa Falls. It was beautiful and at the top was a giant waterfall. 

Now we know where to go for free food. Sample aisles at Whole Foods was a great appetizer to our delicious dinner. We headed back to the house to eat and watch a movie. It was a great day and were going to North Shore tomorrow. Our favorite place :) 

Keep in touch, 

Julia and Lindsey 

Funny Story: 

As we were hiking through to Manoa Falls, Julias favorite animal, birdies, pooooped on her arm! It was hilarious and sick. Wish you all could have seen that wonderful sight. Much love. 

May 18 & 19

Monday:

Now if we decided to go job searching everyday that would be no fun, AND we would miss out on all of the beautiful places around us! So, we spent Monday at the beach. The end.

Tuesday:

No crazy adventures today, but, today was a good day! It's always a good day when you find money on the ground! Yes, thats right, so much for a job I find money on the streets of Honolulu! Just kidding, we are still looking for jobs. This morning we met with another lady that Wendy AKA Lindsey had found to baby sit for, and hmm, I think we'll just leave it at that. 

We applied for a job at Quicksilver and we have an INTERVIEW tomorrow!!! Keep us in your prayers because we also have a second interview tomorrow so that makes 2 in one day. Other than that, we didn't do too much, but we did spend our first 4 hours apart since the past 2 weeks! I have been so blessed to have met an awesome lady with a son, Sean, and I got to babysit him tonight. It was fun, but I missed Wendy as she went exploring without me!

Random fact of the day:

If you are ever in Hawaii and someone asks you if you "burn" they are NOT talking about a sunburn. Let's just say they are referring to another activity commonly referred to as well...smoking...weed. Now you all are prepared, just say NO!

May 17, 2009

Saturday: 

Wooo Hooo, We had the lovely chance to meet the lady we will be babysitting for. 

We met her in the Ala Moana Center and she was so sweet. We will be watching her 4 year old son Sean. 

It was a much needed relaxing day and ended with dinner on the beach, movies, and ice cream. :) 

Sunday: 

Today we went to church, one love. 

We studied a little at Barnes & Noble and met up with Charlotte (the lady we babysit for) and met her son Sean, he is adorable. She took us to her apartment, which was gorgeous. We feel so blessed to have met them, she has provided us with so much already and were excited to be here for the summer! 

Keep us in your prayers as we continue this lovely journey. 

peace & love. 

 

*check out an upcoming video posted of us being attacked by chickens in the graveyard...