Serious Sunday - Hawaii Edition

Welcome to Serious Sunday. Today's story comes from Hawaii, circa Fall 2001. While attending the University of Hawaii Hilo, hubby and I lived in the dorms on campus to cut costs. We also got rid of the TV, for the same reason. Dorms are created with concrete blocks and do not get good reception for anything including a radio. I don't think we had a phone either. It was semi-backwards living for us. On September 11th, we were awoken at 5am or so by a ton of knocking on the front door. I dragged my butt out of bed to find out that school had been canceled that day. The Resident Advisor didn't go into the details but said the tv in the common area was turned on to the news. I grabbed my handy radio to listen to the reports and was quite shocked (as the rest of the United States was.) I dragged R out of bed to tell him what happened. After staring for multiple hours at the tv in the common area, I was convinced having no tv was a bad idea. We bought a tv that day. We also took a hike up Rainbow Falls to decompress a bit. I felt trapped since all planes were grounded. Not a good feeling. We finished the semester and left Hawaii for a different school. Semi-funny story from that same time: We had a film camera and was waiting on film to develop. The cheap version is to ship it off to Honolulu and get it processed there. (Seriously, I have no idea why that was cheaper.) Our photos didn't come back for an extra week, since planes were grounded. I couldn't tell you what happened to those photos, so here is a photo from Honolulu our second attempt at living in Hawaii. I'm linking up with Nicole of Local Sugar who currently resides in Honolulu Hawaii and has great pics of the island. Please stay tuned for Make a Difference Monday.

Photo above is from Denver Colorado Botanical Gardens.

 

Serious Sunday - a bit about me.

Welcome to Serious Sunday. Since I have new readers, I thought it would be great to introduce myself. I like to write, take photos, play piano, read, and stay generally active/healthy. My hubby and I have been married for 13 years (basically since we were kids). We don't have kids but we do take care of kitty cats: Chomps (gray kitty) and Kirby (brown kitty). We love to travel and you can check out where we've been on my Travels page. We have lived in Denver Colorado twice, Hawaii twice, Anchorage Alaska, and now we live in Oklahoma City. Originally, I am from Portland Oregon and that's where all my family lives. I miss the liquid sunshine, the ocean within a short drive, and my family. I plan on staying 29 for as long as possible and maybe longer than I can get away with it. It sounds like a good age to me. Final little random tid bit: I am allergic to chocolate and I don't care. (Its a quick sneeze and back to indulging in chocolate goodness.) If you have any questions or comments please post them below and I'll cheerfully email you back. Please stay tuned for Make a Difference Monday.  

Top 3 funny phrases

1: "There's a gecko on my peanut butter." I used to live in Hawaii and I went to the cupboard to make a PB & J. I quickly changed my mind when I found the gecko. When I told my hubby, we both got a good laugh.

2: "There's a long line of cars, and it's all because of me." I enjoy this song from Cake because it makes me laugh. I'm pretty sure there's just one vehicle that causes 79% of all traffic jams.

3: "I'm just a cheeseburger in paradise." I swear that's what Jimmy Buffet sings in the song. Every time I get a chance to go to Margaritaville, I always order the Cheeseburger in Paradise.