I still think surfing is one of my favorite things i've done here in Hawaii. I feel so at peace at the ocean, in the ocean, by the ocean, etc. I'm happy to say that I think we have one more person addicted to surf rush! we chilled at the beach after surfing which we haven't done in quite a while...like a couple weeks....
yeah, she IS totally asleep! MERMAID!
Can you see the turtle she is sleeping on?
She later told me and our other friend that we were really nice to let her sleep and fry there...A lot of Aloe was used this weekend. We both work together at the Polynesian Culture Center and after work we went camping! definitely one of the most interesting camping nights ever! I love these guys!
our NEW tent :)
Sunrise on the beach
Saturday was full of stuff for my marine biology class. We went to the other side of the Island to Hawaii Kai and looked for different types of animals to take back to lab. My professor spent the first few minutes walking with me and giving me advice on being a good teacher ( it's what career i've decided on) so i missed the part where everyone split into groups to look for different things out in the ocean. so i walked alone for a couple minutes just kind of looking past the water in to the ocean floor when all of the sudden i see the biggest fish i've seen since i've been here on the Island. so i start to scream..."holy cow, big fish.... HOLY COW BIG FISH!" my TA's call to me wondering what kind it was and we identified it to be a puffer fish...like a big one! someone throws me a bucket and tells me to catch it! so here I am chasing this puffer fish in the ocean running around with it while a classmate tries to corral it towards me...and yes, i sure did catch this big puffer fish with nothing but a bucket! He was super cool! and had giant eyes like a cow! He was a beautiful and amazing creature! my whole class thought i was pretty bomb...a guy said "you're the man!!".. i wasn't really sure how to take that so i decided it was a compliment. we got a picture but its on someone else's camera so maybe i'll get it in the future.
Memorial day, was epic! one of the biggest adventure days yet! me and some friends woke up early to go hike "Seven Falls". The joke that quickly developed as we began hiking was that on our way up to the seven water falls that we were supposed to hike that day we were each going to have to fall down seven times, get seven bruises, and one friend mentioned maybe seven words of profanity. As we began the hike it began to POUR rain! making swimming through freezing waterfall water a little more painful than i'd like, thankfully i have friends who are patient with my body's intolerance to being cold. This was a beautiful hike though. It really is a jungle out there! the kind of things I imagined when i was a kid.
This picture is a little blurry from water. oh well
This was the second of seven falls. the next three falls were about 60-80 ft. high and yes. we had to use a rope like the one used in the above picture to scale up each of the waterfalls.. my arms were pretty exhausted by the time we got back down! I wish i could have taken pictures of the other falls but i don't have a water proof camera yet and we had to swim so this was as far as i dared take my camera. the higher up we got with the more extreme the falls became. My friend Sarah began to make some pretty awesome commentary that had me laughing to tears. favorite quote of the day "and why are we risking our lives climbing up slick water falls with unstable ropes and freezing water below?!...because were in Hawaii, were young, and dumb, and we don't give a [crap]!" haha. It was much funnier in person.
I wish I could say I was cool enough to back flip off this fall...but at this point in the hike i was so cold i was just dreading even having to get back in the water at all! but this kid is pretty legit!
I love being outside. I love the warm breeze that makes my already wavy and tangled hair more out of control. Getting to meet new interesting people and see new things or even the same things just never seems to get old. Once every couple days I get this crazy realization feeling that says "oh my gosh, i live in Hawaii?!"... I can't see myself getting sick of it any time soon. I thought about today how grateful I am for my body and that i'm healthy and able to do all the crazy things i do. I'm grateful for a Heavenly Father who has kept me safe all these years. I know one day when i'm old and gray i'll look at a large waterfall like the ones we climbed and remember how I used to be able to pull myself up a rope with ease and probably wish that I was still so agile. But for now, I'm just grateful for my adventurous, active body and spirit! taking it one day at a time.
(Title from "A Minute or Two" -Cider Sky)
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