Link Up

  I decided to do a little question air and link up with Gentri Lee's Blog. Follow along if your interested!

Rules: Answer these 7 questions, followed by a funny photo of yourself.

1. If you could only eat savory or sweet things for the rest of your life, which would you choose- and why?
  Sweet's for sure! Definitely my weakness!

2. Would you rather live in the ocean (underwater), in the sky (on a cloud), or in space?
  I'm thinking a cloud...It would probably be more comfortable.


3. Desert, Mountains, Plains, or Tropics?
  Well i am LOVING the tropics at the moment! Ill pick that!

 4. Would you rather live with chronic pain or the worst pain you can imagine for 24 hours?
   Ill take the pain for 24 hours. 

 5.  If you had to repeat one of these again, which would it be? Preschool, Elementary, Jr High/ Middle School, High School, College.
   I think I would pick High School. I would do so many things differently if I had the chance!


6. Tribal, Floral, Stripes, or Polka Dots?
   hmmm....All but Tribal


7. Are you right handed or left handed? 
   I'm a righty (except in pool) but I'm fascinated with the left handed people!

Festival

 Last night Mike and I went to the 18th annual Honolulu Festival. They had such a variety cultures that were present in the parade. Even-tho it was raining the whole entire time we still had fun walking and watching.




I saw this plant outside a hotel as we were driving in Waikiki. Never seen anything like this before.

 



This is such a terrible picture but I wanted to put it up anyways!

  A very cool tree. I couldn't get a good picture of it tho.

 

Fireworks at the end of the night shot off from boats in the water. Poring rain the whole time!

North Shore Trip

Random...

 First Pineapple!
  (check out our groovy counter tops) 

 I did laundry for the fist time here and their dryers when crazy on our socks...

 Sheba in her new bed...

  Bolo trying to lay in Sheba's new bed..

    What I'm drinking tonight!

 

Hubby's new car

ALOHA

  We made it! All 4 of us! Thank god! I cant believe how smooth everything went. I feel like such a idiot now with all my nerves leading up to it.

   Even-tho we didn't have to pay for out bags... we did have a fee of $100 because they were way over weight.
    We had the smallest plane ever leaving Raleigh Durhum Airport, in North Carolina. I almost didn't want to get on. 3 hour flight felt like 10.
   Landing only 15 min before our next plane boarded in Texas wasn't fun. Running trough the airport not knowing where the terminal was made me feel a little like Home Alone. The 2nd airplane was a little better. We weren't in the last row next to the bathroom, and we could actually lean our seats back and be somewhat comfortable. I still hate flying! 14 hours was worth it all when it ended.

  I think one of these island is Maui. (Just guessing)



  We picked Bolo and Sheba up at the Quarantine Facility after we got our luggage. They were so upset in their crates. 2 days in 3 different airplanes I'm sure they didn't have fun at all. Sheba has a little boo-boo on her nose, not quite sure how it happened but it doesn't really matter. I'm just glad I have 2 alive dogs. I still am in shock that all the paperwork I had work on for almost a year had no problems. I was sure that they were going to tell me that my dogs had to stay in quarantine for something I did wrong. Leaving the airport with 2 very loud barking dogs... rainbow in the distance! It felt like a good sign.              

 

 

    We haven't really had a chance to do anything around the island yet. Just getting settled in was our main concern at the moment. Getting the dogs situated at the place were we have to stay temporarily till we get a house.  We still have a rent-a-car so Mike has been busy trying to find a car to buy.  We went on base yesterday to pick up a form and along the way I snapped a few pictures. This is going to be a amazing drive to work everyday for him. I did hear traffic stinks tho. (grey and rainy but still beautiful)

 I cant believe that this is going to be my home for the next few years. I'm so excited to see it all. I just hope the time change affects are not going to last too long because I definitely didn't get enough beauty sleep last night  :)

1/2 way

Good Bye to Mikes car last night. Very sad day...










The unnecessary truck that we had to rent. 2 large and 2 small suitcases and 2 dog crates = 17 foot truck
 
   Bolo in the wee hours of the morning hanging out in the back of the truck.


   Sheba sleeping on both mine and Mikes lap during our 3 hour drive.

   Bolos usual stance while in the car. Whole body on the dash while his nose is fogging up the window.

  Well our move is half way over. The baby's are gone. Everything when as planed so far, tomorrows the day that I'm really nervous about so we will just see how that goes. Bright and early for Mike and I so bed time will be early. Getting excited!

Graduation Day

  Mike is now officially a Combat Engineer. He graduated on Thursday with 14 other guys. I'm so proud! This year has been such a new experience for him and he has handled it so well.  Too bad I didn't get any photos from him actually on stage receiving his certificate. My camera was acting up right as it was his turn, of coarse.
   Its been also a crazy weekend with the "moving" stuff happening.  Its going to be so nice when I have other stuff to talk about then this. We drove my car to Virginia yesterday, (4 hours there, 4 hours back) for it to be shipped. Estimated time of arrival is 30 days.  Another thing off the list, feels good to be done with that.
   Because we have shipped my car, Mike needs to sell his in order for us to buy one the day after we arrive in HI. So we wont have a car to get us to the airport on Monday to take the dogs to their flight. We called around all morning trying to find a cargo/ mini van to rent to be able to have enough room for our suitcases and dog crates. I guess no company allows vans to be dropped off at a different location other then the location you pick it up from. I thought that was the whole idea. To be able to drive it somewhere and drop it off where ever you ended up. To make a really really long agonizing story shorter, we are picking up a moving truck later tonight.... So driving to the airport huge truck...yep! Then we are going to stay in Raleigh for one night. There is no point in us coming home because the drive is so long... so taxi's for the rest of our time there.  I just cant wait to get their so I don't have to think about this anymore.
  So tonight a few more errands. Maybe a couple of drinks are on the menu too.