The Odyssey: November 2010

Jeesh! I haven't updated in awhile!! We have been busy enjoying every minute here in Hawaii. This week has consisted of going to the beach... A LOT!! Hitch hiking, buses, restaurants, great food, shopping, lots of work and working out and a waterfall!!! I'm putting a bunch of pics up again. (cus we all know a pic says a thousand words which makes it easier for me to document in this blog!!)

We went to Paia Bay Beach last Saturday (pics were in my last post) and then on Sunday we went and visited Kihei and Wailea. We hitch hiked to get into Paia where we did a few errands and got a yummy iced coffee AND they put ice cubes made of coffee to chill it!! How sweet is that??!?! We then caught the bus into Kahului where we hung out in the mall for an hour. We spent most of the time in Borders looking at books. (we have been reading a lot since we have been here!! its so nice to have time to read!) Then we grabbed a couple of pretzels and caught the next bus to Kihei. We ended up going all the way to Wailea. We thought it would have a nice mall...and it did but everything was SO EXPENSIVE! When we looked in our travel book we read that Wailea literally breathes money and it does. It was beautiful but we soon left as we couldn't/didn't want to spend our money there.

We headed back to Kihei where we stopped at the 808 Deli (a recommendation from our Lonely Planet book). Everything was only $8 or under! I got a delicious salad and Nic got a yummy panini!!! We took our food to the beach where we picnicked on the beach. We then went swimming! Yes I Hannah Welch went all the way into the waters of Hawaii! It was absolutely amazing! We swam around and body surfed on the waves. It was a gorgeous day!! We took the bus back to Paia where we went to a Vietnamese restaurant that was entirely vegetarian. It was delicious! Then we hitch hiked...in the dark...all the way to Huelo Point. (which is where we live)

We prayed a lot on that trip back. We were pretty scared as it was dark and we were about an hours drive from home. We got a ride with a couple to Haiku and then since they weren't going any farther we had to walk in the dark. It started to rain and I started to freak out!! But we prayed and about 5 minutes later the rain stopped and a few minutes after that a young man stopped and took us all the way home, even though it was about 20 minutes out of the way. Thank you God! It was a fantastic day to say the least. We love this island! There is an endless amount of things to do. We are having so much fun!

Monday we worked on cleaning cottages (Ocean Lookout) and getting Star, which is a cottage that Sharyn and Jeff just moved out of, ready for guests who were coming on Wednesday. We worked on Star on Tuesday, as well as cleaning Haleakala and Rainbow and we cleaned Star on Wednesday as well. Thursday was a light day of work, we did some weeding and cut down bananas! and we went to Wal-Mart, Costco :) and Borders with Sharyn. Monday and Wednesday we went to Paia beach and then to the gym in Haiku with Jeff, Sharyn, Kai (their son) and Brendan (our fellow wwoofer).

Today we worked a full day (which means about 5 hours of work and I know that doesn't sound like a lot but out here with the heat it feels like an 8 hour day of work AT LEAST!). We cut down hedges along the driveway and weed whacked, it was a lot of hard and tiring work! Oh and on Wednesday we caught a mouse in the kitchen EEEEEWWWWW!!!!

We went to a beautiful waterfall today. We jumped into the pools and looked over the scary 150 foot edge where the water drops off! It was absolutely stunningly beautiful. Isn't God's work incredible?!?!