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