Our life is a PARTY when there is no school!

4 Day weekend fun in pictures and videos.

I Like To Ride My Bicycle, I Like To Ride My Bike

Today was the dedication of the bike path that has been built between Kahuku and Laie, and it was a PARTY. If you have had any experience with Hawaiians this is what they know how to P-A-R-T-Y!!! Well we walk up and of course we are not only greeted by the delicious smells of BBQ but see 4 pigs roasting on a spit. Yup. it was a great greeting.

And then we all got to go and watch and listen to the program and culturally uplifting event. My hopes of going to this is the enticings of a winning a free bike. But we left when they started eating because there was a huge line and were not present for the drawing for the 15 bikes they had to give away because we had a ward BBQ to get to. It was great to see the integration of culture into the simple dedication of a mile and a half bike path.

enjoy the little taste of the culture in the video of the Keiki ("children" in Hawaiian) and the others involved in the ceremony.

Walking in the Moonlight!

For the record sized moon we decided to do something adventurous so we went on a hike. Our original plan: to hike by moonlight. However, the tree canopy and clouds thought differently. so luckily 3 out of the 12 people that went had flashlights (well it was like 2 flashlights and a bike light that worked like a candle). Add limited lighting to mounds of muck and mud with a rewarding waterfall at the end and you have out adventure.

It was so much fun even though i was throughly creeped out the entire time. Thankfully i was able to cling on to my roommate, Whit-nasty. She was one of the lucky ones who got to use a flashlight since she is pretty much legally BLIND in the dark. We are proud to say though that out of the 7 girls that went were were the only two who did not slip and fall on our butts. OH YEAH!!! But Whit-nasty did happen to step into mud that was ankle deep and run smack into a tree (like i said legally blind). Well since it was dark we ended up wandering around and got lost quite a bit....yea I know.. a little worrisome but still we got to the waterfall ( and home too). Of course i couldn't do all the work and walking without a reward so i got over my anxiety and went swimming in a big deep dark freezing pond in the moon light and jumped off the lower portion right next to the falls. Amazing. i am so happy that i actually went swimming and jumped or else i would have been pissed at myself.

So for this whole trip including a 45 min drive there a mile and a half hike a little time at the falls the hike back and the 45 min drive home, it took us a grand total of 5 &1/2 hours!!! now in perspective thats us getting lost and hiking for 4 HOURS, thats over a hour to walk ONE mile. oops oh well! hahah

Me after being frozen and swimming in the pond.
Most of our group riding up in Vicky. Yeah i know i look like a retard, but this is the only picture that i am actually in with our whole group. at least it is a struggle for everyone :)

A hitch-hikers guide to Hawaii (look for the big blue van!)

First meet vicky:

a 1983 blue Volkswagen Vanagon that my neighbor bought and named Vicky. She is a PARTY on wheels! She only had a long bench in the very back and two front seats when he bought her. But because of our large family, aka the compound, we needed more seating. So to fix this solution, on a middle of the week midnight walmart run we found a corner piece to a large sectional on the side of the road and picked it up, graffiti and all. to fix this nasty solution we put a tye-dyed cover on both the couch and the back seat, with aloha print seat covers for the front. We sure did make her into the perfect hippie crusin' Hawaiian ride that we love to take on adventures!

So now that you have met Vicky you can hear about the adventure that occurred last Saturday. Pretty much everyone in the compound decided to ride the bus to Kailua for the afternoon but didn't leave until around 1 in the afternoon. NOT a good idea in my mind so i stayed home to catch some rays at good ol Hukilau beach. But Vicky had other ideas. Me and one of my other roommates (Vicky's "mother" or better known as the owners girlfriend :) decided to stay and that we would go get acai bowls from our favorite old local joint since it reopened recently. Our original plan was to hitch-hike there but having some girlfriend privileges my neighbor offered Vicky for our assistance and told us to "take other people with us and get to know them" well we both failed and fulfilled this request. We left Laie, with only the two of us in the car... and soon filled her with 6 other passengers along the road. Yup we picked up 6 hitch-hikers on the way to our sweet treats. (ok mother before you freak out, i knew 2 of the girls and they were all BYUH students too) once we filled our craving for our missing friend the acai bowl, we decided to "take pictures, and cool shots" since it was just the two of us...we FAILED miserably. Whit took a total of 2 pictures and i took barely any while driving. So we decided to just go home... but we wernt done picking up friends. YUP we picked up more hitch-hikers . our first treasure was a French man on Holiday that came to surf. It was interesting to chat it up a little with him and to hear his rockin accent. While he was still in the car we stopped and picked up 5 more BYUH students bringing our grand total to 12 accidental passengers. :) what a great weekend!!

A little clip of our ride :) yeah we are that cool.

P.S. those were not my shades they came with Vicky and i had the urge to wear them for the video.

A few great pictures that were successes of Waimea showing the great weather and time we had