Seth and I had a wonderful day celebrating the birth of Christ and being together with family.
Claude loved spending Christmas at our house!
And we had a blast with Seth's family at his grandparent's Christmas dinner.
Hope your day was just as amazing.
I have never been able to find someone that can cut and style my hair just the way I like it.
Until yesterday.
Little Sofia decided that she would be the best for the job, and started to style my hair for me. Not sure why my eyes are closed though.
Man is this ref tough or what?
Poor Kenneth Darby. I wish I could take out people like this.
I L O V E wearing warm clothes! It has been so much fun to wear all my warm clothes saved just for the winter time in California.
I don't think I want to go back to Hawaii for a while.
It has been so much fun seeing our families for the Holidays.
Oh California! How I've missed you!
Photos, as promised.
We tried to make it downtown to the doctor's office one more time, but the roads are closed both ways to town. Total bummer. No meds for me.
I have my most important final tomorrow at 7am, and I am just praying that it won't be like today. I really don't feel like swimming to school that early in the morning.
All of these roads were blocked off. Kids were floating around on their boogie boards.
I took this shot for Aarean. As you can see from the next pic, no one cares about this sign. Hope they all don't wake up tomorrow with a third arm!
The street to the temple.
School front fields.
Moana St.
I got to forge this today to get to school.
Aren't you glad you're not in Hawaii?
Literally.
Last night there was a huge storm and Hawaii (esp. North Shore) is flooded. Badly. Its supposed to rain like this for the next 5 days or so. I woke up this morning to go to my doctor's appt. down in Honolulu. I left at a little before 7, when it was fairly dark, and started to drive down the road in the pouring rain. I hit a HUGE puddle, going like 30 mph (it was raining too hard to see it) and the the car spun out a little. I was too scared to drive, so I came right back home! Now I'm bummed because I leave for California on Saturday WITHOUT my meds and with a hurt arm. Anyway, all of Laie and Hau'ula of what I've seen is flooded. Both roads leading to town have been blocked because of bad flooding. Luckily our house is on a slant to drain out into the ocean, but other houses I've seen haven't been so lucky. A lot of our friends are bailing out their houses.
TVA: Flooded
BYUH: Flooded
PCC: Flooded
Streets: Flooded
Fields: Flooded
Testing Center: OPEN???
I officially pushed my graduation date BACK until December 2009.
I had been debating this for a while actually. That is when I was supposed to graduate, but I pushed up my classes a semester to graduate early in June.
BUT when I was looking at my schedule for next semester, I had 23 credits---ALL BIOLOGY. So I came to my senses and decided that was waaaaayyyy too much.
Seth and I talked about it, and we decided that graduating in December was best. He will be applying for school next year instead of this year, and gain some work experience.
I felt so bad and guilty about making him wait a whole year to go to grad school, but he assured me that he wanted to get some work experience before he applied for school, and that he felt it was important for me to graduate with the best GPA I could (which I definitely wouldn't be able to do with 23 credits--geez). It was a hard decision to make, and I'm so glad I have such a wonderful husband who wants what's best for me.
So we're here for another year, folks!
Why must college drag on forever?
This song was stuck in my head during my entire Biochem final today:
This dress:
I saw it at the Gap the other day and fell in love---but not with the price! BUT---the last dress in my size had a stain on it..so I went and told a worker and they gave me the dress for 40% off of the sale price---so I got it for suuuper cheap! And the stain came right out when I washed it at home. I have the perfect black cardigan for this beauty. Oh man, do I love finding a good deal on something!
Ok, I know I said I wouldn't post for a week, but its Saturday...and I just HAD to share this picture...
This is Baloo's ploy of looking as desperate and pathetic as possible in order to guilt you into giving him your food.
...and it always works. Who could say no to this desperate face?
I am going to do what Emerson is doing---checking out of the blogosphere for the next week. With homework, projects, and finals coming out of my ears, I need to focus! And as Emerson said, that really would just suck to know that I could have done even a little better on my finals if I wasn't on my computer procrastinating. I can't wait until this is over!--people keep telling me how awful I look (some people are just so RUDE!) ... I study all night and then study all day while running lab work-- ahem...should I REALLY be concerned with how I look so YOU feel better? No. You rude people must suffer through my scruffy "I-was-up-all-night-studying" look for one more week. Deal with it accordingly. Just one more week of hell, and then I can relax for the Christmas season--and blog! So until then---- see you next week and wish me luck!
**And thank you to Emerson for the much-needed idea**
We're baaaaack! Ok, we got back on Sunday. But our trip was awesome. We left on Tuesday and stayed in a condo in Po'ipu. We hiked the Na Pali coast Wednesday through Thursday. It was so hard. The hike was pretty much just scaling up and down mountains over and over again. We all had huge camping backpacks too! The view was just absolutely amazing though. I kept stopping just to take in the gorgeous scenery!
The trail was pretty scary at points. At the hairiest parts, at about 480 ft above sea level, the trail was on the edge of a cliff, about 1 ft wide, and was eroded and slanted off the cliff---SCARY! We had to take one careful step at a time. One old man passing us in the other direction had the nerve to say "Be careful....there's only one way down!" Who says that to someone whos hiking on the edge of a cliff?
We also passed a nudist who was only wearing a backpack. Ugh. It freaked us out and was pretty weird. Ok It was actually very very weird. We also ran into a wild boar. We just had to wait until it ran away, since wild boars are pretty aggressive and dangerous to run into. Sorry, I was too scared to take a picture of it.
This spot was my favorite. It was at the top of the mountain, and you could see the entire coastline, as well as the valley inland, and it was one of the most amazing views I had ever seen! Please ignore my grossness. Thank you.
The water below was so clear and blue too! I just wanted to jump off into it---but don't worry, I resisted that urge.
On our way back we stopped off at a beach in the first valley. I tried to climb into this cave, but after many unsuccessful attempts, settled for a picture of me just standing next to it.
The beach was gorgeous, and deserted! I felt like it was our private beach! The tiny speck is me.
Some more cool shots:
The next day we were so sore and dirty and tired that we just relaxed. I could hardly move. Every muscle hurt soooo badly. I had to toss my shoes because the hike had just torn them to shreds! But we just hung out and enjoyed the sunny Ha'ena beach, where we saw a Hawaiian Monk seal...or Baloo???
Uncle Mike and his family happened to be in Kaua'i at the same time! Seth and I were able to go to dinner with them and hang out at the Hyatt hotel for a while. It was really fun to see them and hang out! They even let us stay in their extra room after they left for one night! That was nice, since our beds (2 twins pushed together) at the condo were as hard as a rock. We even got to play around at the awesome pools for a bit.
Hooray, we're all tan now! Seth feels the need to keep calling me "Darkie."
And of course, we went to Dukes on our last night. What a way to top it off! It was such a fun trip.Unfortunately my camera got water in it in the middle of the trip (its a waterproof camera---go figure?) so I only have pictures from half the trip---the other half are on camille's camera. I'll post those when I can get ahold of them.
11 more days until our next trip ...to California ...and then Vegas for our anniversary!
