Star Wars

So funny. Thought I would show this since Star Trek is coming out..hehe.

sorry...it was in two videos. You have to watch both!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

...To the hottest and my most favorite person in the whole world!! I love you so much!


Unfortunately, I'm in school today, and Seth has to work, so we are celebrating all day tomorrow. It will be the best day ever!

The birthday bash consists of:

-homemade Belgian waffles with strawberries and whipped cream for breakfast
-all day fun at the water park (Thanks for the tickets Nate and Camille!)
-Fabulous dinner in town
-Star Trek in Imax
-homemade chocolate mousse cake and awesome presents
-a late cinco de mayo/birthday dinner for Seth and Baloo (Baloo turns 2 tomorrow!). Kelly is coming over to help us celebrate too. This requires enchiladas, spicy chicken nachos, chips and salsa, and spanish rice. Oh and another type of chocolate fudge cake for dessert.


Hooray for Seth being 25! Now we can rent a car with a discount :)

TheBus

I absolutely hate TheBus. (That's the actual name of the bus company..TheBus...creative, right?) I absolutely cannot stand TheBus.

Ok, well actually riding the bus is a different story. I don't mind riding the bus at all actually...its WAITING for the bus.

Seth works all the way in Kailua until late at night, so I have to take the bus to school, which I didn't mind at all...

Until the bus had proven itself to be completely unpredictable and late almost every single time I need to take it somewhere! I cannot tell you how many times I have been super late to class because of the bus being late. It is supposed to come every half hour, and it never ever does. Usually I have to wait over an hour for the bus to come! Sometimes I get at the bus stop an hour and a half before class (which can be hard to do when you have class early in the morning) and I am still 25 minutes or so late! It drives me crazy.

But yesterday just killed me!

I got out of class at noon. I was at the bus stop at 12:15. I waited there until 2:10 or so...can you believe it? I was so frustrated by that point. Then a tourist lady comes up to me, telling me she just got off the bus coming in that direction, and she said that the bus had taken a detour, turning right before Foodland, and coming out by the PCC, skipping all of the Laie stops! That was weird because there was construction going on by Foodland, but they were letting cars through one lane and there was no traffic. I was going to die. Thanks, bus, for skipping all the Laie stops without letting anyone know, though you could have easily gone through the construction area like everyone else! Thank goodness that lady came and told me.

So, backpack full of textbooks and all, I hiked down to the PCC. And waited...and waited. By that point if the bus came I wasn't sure I would be happy to see it, or be so mad that I had been waiting now for almost 3 hours, that I would kick the bus driver or something. Soooo....I started to walk home. So anyway, I ended up walking a little over 2 miles home.

I used my excursion as an excuse to not have to go running that night. That was my workout.

And I hate TheBus. The end.

Death by stairs

On Friday, Seth and I decided to check out the Koko head railway hike. My friend had gone on it, and I wanted to check it out!
Turns out it was super difficult---stairs straight up to the top of a volcano crater! If I could rename this hike, I would call it Death by Stairs.

The view was worth it though! Especially if you took the time to climb a little higher and then go around to the back.

Before the hike...

It wasn't too bad until the last third or so...which was practically straight up. It sucked.



View from the top of the stairs: So high up! You can see the itty bitty trail go all the way down...


The view was so nice! ...And worth the death climb.



We found an old man with a crazy hat to take our picture. Seth was happy to pass him on the bridge on the way back on a third of the way down


Oh yeah, we were totally sore the next day. After burning so many calories that day, a big dinner never tasted so good.

Seth ended up really liking it, and wants to go do it often. Going on that monstrous hike would get anyone into shape! The thought of climbing those stairs again doesn't sound too exiting to me...

By the way, what is a railroad doing on the side of an inactive volcano crater?

Add on to the last post:

I took this picture this morning because I just loved the colors of the sky. It was way more gorgeous in person than in this photo, but you can still sense the peaceful feeling of the sunrise. 

These pictures have such terrible resolution, but it's the best I can do with my camera.

And yes, I get up that early to go run. 

Its not pleasant.

Anyway, school is out, and I'm going on a hike! See ya!