Springtime!

I love Spring! the weather is not too hot, nor too cold. Perfect.

The scenery is also perfect.

Our backyard:

Kailua:

Sunset beach:

Sunrise in our backyard:

Family Efforts

This semester Seth and I are making efforts to exercise. So of course, Fatty, feeling left out, has decided he has a few pounds to shed. Usually I have to lift his fat body over the wall leading down to the beach, but today he tried (and successfully) made it over on his own, by using his weight to swing himself over the wall. It takes him a good 30 seconds to a minute to shuffle enough fat over the wall to swing himself over.

It was honestly the saddest/funniest thing to watch.

Of course he learned and perfected this technique at our old place:


Such a crafty critter.

Baby Lacey

I got these pictures from my dad.

I looked like a hairless asian baby boy when I was little.

See the top blue ring? That was my best friend for years. My dad told me that my parents still have it.

This is my sister Noelle and I at Grandma's house in Honolulu. Noelle was so chubby!!!! haha.

I can't figure out what I'm holding in my hand. Any ideas?

Since my last post was so sad, I thought I would post some good news:

-One of my oldest and best friends is getting married to a great guy. I couldn't be happier to hear that!

-Got an A on my first exam of the semester.

- swimming to Chinaman's hat in a few days.

-Going on a new hike this weekend.

-I'm going to eat a delicious sandwich today.

Have a good day!

What a day!

Today I pretty much witnessed the saddest thing.

This morning when I went to the zoo, the vet tech told me and my coworker that we had a brush tail rock wallaby in quarantine today.
These are the only kinds of wallabies on the Hawaiian islands. Someone had found it caught in pig snare in the mountain area and had brought it in for care. I was excited to see him! We always start off the day cleaning the quarantine cages and feeding and giving meds to the animals. So Quinn and I went to go see him, only to find the saddest situation we had ever seen.

The pig snare had just mutilated this poor guy's leg. His leg just showed about 2-3 inches of completely exposed bone, and the surrounding flesh was so incredibly swollen and infected. All of the muscles, arteries and veins, and nerves were completely torn up. Sorry to paint such a gruesome picture for you, but thats how awful it was. Not only that, but when I went in his cage to feed him, he didn't even move. Thats saying a lot for a wild animal that isn't exposed to humans often, if at all. He was lying on his side, motionless. The vet tech came to help him up, but as soon as she let go, the wallaby just fell, and started to twitch his leg. then he started to drag his head on the ground, and his eye began to twitch, and it seemed like he had some sort of neural problem or something. Quinn and I had to move him over to the next cage, and he didn't care if we touched him, or picked him up. It was so sad. You could tell he was in so much pain.

The absolute worst part, was that instantly they decided to euthanize him. I mean, I wouldn't want him to live like that, but I guess I'm still not used to the idea of euthanasia. I felt like it was so barbaric. The vet tech picked him up so ... roughly...and then accidently DROPPED him from a couple feet up. I cringed. Then she just casually plopped him down on some portable crate/carrier, and held him down. Then they injected him with the "stuff." I was just standing there with my mouth open. Then I had to sit there and watch the necropsy in the clinic. SO SAD. Ok, I wasn't like all teary-eyed and crying and all that stuff. I just felt a little uncomfortable like it was so barbaric and rough. I know that as a vet you have to make those decisions and do those things, since obviously that poor wallaby couldn't live in that condition. I don't feel like I could ever do that so....easily....or casually. Its so weird thinking that I will have to do that when I go into veterinary medicine.

Anyway--Sorry for such as sad story. I will make sure to post tomorrow. I don't like leaving my last post on an unhappy note!

Here's a brush tail rock wallaby. I couldn't bare to take a picture of the cutie I met today.