Monday, April 27, 2009

Hawaii

Ok, so I've been slacking a little on my trip, I've been very busy and exhausted my whole trip but dang is it fun!! I love it. Been horseback riding....twice!! Because I've loved it so much we wanted to go back again. The first time was a lot of fun! I had a horse named Dia Day, and Candi's was Pay Day! Haha! There were about 8 people in front of us and just a couple behind us, so we just got to chill. The guide that was in back was really nice, didn't get to talk to him much though. My horse Dia Day, (yes I know it's kinda weird), she was very wanting to go a move. She did not like to stand in one place or follow Pay Day, Dia always went to the opposite side of Pay Day. She liked to trot, I got her to trot a few times. There was this one spot that was really steep going down and you always had to wait for the horse in front of you to be at the bottom. It wasn't very long but just enough to get Dia going pretty fast. I loved every second of it!!! The second time that we rode there, which was today, me and Candi got the same horses again :) it was a lot of fun and I can't wait till I got horseback riding again!!

I drove yesterday for the first time in Hawaii, I was REALLY nervous, but really, it's no different than any other place other than the roads are like our narrow bridges, and what's sad, is that they have a sign that says narrow bridge, so I have to drive on a double narrow bridge. Plus you have the people riding bikes right on the side of the road....agh!! Some of these roads too are crazy! Like driving up to the stables place, you have to do a complete U turn and that's part of the road! It's because you're going up part of the mountain though too. And the traffic here is terrible! At certain times anyway. But I can drive through it just fine.

When me and Candi went to the beach, there were waves coming up on shore that were as tall as the both of us! They were huge! One wiped me out once haha, and I got the very first big swig of salt water in my mouth, that was VERY gross. I don't know how people can surf in these waters. And yes, we see surfers with boards everywhere. But not too big of waves tho. But they do do a pretty good job of it. With what they have. Candi said that they have surf board covers like we carry gun covers back home. Haha! But of course there's a gun or a surf board inside the case of course. lol.

At night it's been pretty cloudy though, but tonight was the first night that it wasn't, so me and Candi got to watch the sunset. We walked and took a lot of pictures of it, but between then I just looked up and watched it, and my mind wondered back home (even though it's really cold there, I still really miss it) there's really nothing like home sweet home. I just don't know what I'm going to do when I get to Afghanistan...yeah...let's not go there.

So we did go to this all day thing, the Polonysian Culture, it was so cool, me and Candi did these little stick games, learned some different language for names like fire. haha. It was funny, you had to of been there. We got painted tatoos on our ankles from New Zeland. We had dinner, and we ate raw fish (ick!) and some other crazy purple stuff. I know that's my favorite color, but dang, you're not supossed to eat anything purple!

Me and Candi every night watch movies on our TV. She brought lots of DVD's, and a lot of movies I haven't seen which some are Chiwawa. (yea I can't spell it) And a few others but half of them I fall asleep to them, so I guess I can't really say I've watched them. It's weird because I usually don't fall asleep watching movies....ever.....yea...lol. ;)

Well, there's not too much else to say about my trip other than I'm having an awsome time, missing a lot of friends, especially the one way straight south of Minnesota, I wish I got to see that friend one more time before we left. I really do miss him dearly. Although I don't admit it to him because I'm just trying to be strong. Army Strong! haha. yea. So, I'm going to go to bed now and finish this movie if I don't fall asleep first. So I'll write later!

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Second Day In Hawaii!

Today was a little more exciting than yesterday I promise. The morning started off kinda slow. Didn't do much until noon because we were tired from the night before. But after that we got in the convertable with the top down (which isn't very exciting in the backseat of the car with your hair down). We got to this road and it was a little town looking kinda and it had all these cute little stores with gifts and clothes in them. The first place we stopped at me and Candi saw a whole bunch of little gadgety things. We bought a lot of things, we both got these little shell's that said Aloha and then a little picture of a turtle and one with a pretty flower, then at the bottom it said Hawaii. It was cute. Then we saw these little necklaces and lots and lots of shells. We both bought the dangly shells that hang in a spiral, well mine is purple (my favorite color) and Candi got a pink one. They're both exactly the same except the color.

So we continued the long walk on. My parents are not with us just to let you know. We hit a few clothing stores, one of them had really cute clothes in it, I almost bought a shirt but they didn't have my size and it was really expensive. It was 75% off and still cost $78. Yeah the normal price was $155. It was really cute though. So the next store we went to had some more things in it, I don't really remember all the stores we hit, there were a lot. We walked in a store where I touched my first REAL surfboard! It was a little more plastic like than I thought it would be. So maybe it wasn't a real surfboard then. But they had them chained to the wall so they most likely were then. We saw a store and went in....at first it wasn't normal, it almost looked chinese, maybe Japanese. But either way, it wasn't a normal looking store. They had clothes in there that I wouldn't wear one thing in there. Some stuff looked kinda cute I guess, but I'd just never wear it in Minnesota. This sales guy asked Candi if he could have her try a sheet looking dresss on that if you fold it certain ways that it changes it's looks and stuff. It was funny watching her. We were planning on our way back that we'd buy it on our way back, but we walked so far we had my parents come pick us up at the end of the road. haha. By that store though we were both getting really thirsty. So we crossed the road and ended up at this super cute deli. I wished I was hungry because they had really good looking sub sandwiches. But the store was NOTHING like subway so don't think like that. We got these Hawaiian juice that had a fruit tasting in it. But it came in a can like pop. It was REALLY good!! We walked down more road, got thirsty again, this time we got ICECREAM!!! My favorite. They had this really weird homemade icecream (suposidly known worldwide for their best icecream. It wasn't busy at all so I don't know). But then they had these cookie looking things that had different flavoring. They were kinda doughy on the outside but it was mostly flour the girl said, and had icecream in the middle. That was really good too! I want some more. lol. Then we went to one more store to look at dresses but since some of these places are so small they don't have changing rooms so you have to guess. We both wanted to find dresses to wear to the beach but if they didn't fit that would just suck. Walked a little more ways and my parents picked us up so we didn't have to walk back. :)

When we got back to the condo me and Candi had girl talk in our room while mom and dad made steaks on the grill. Me and Candi made the salads tho. After we got done eating we walked the oposite way we went last night. But this time it was very close to dard. There's these pipeline looking things and one is really long, the water will splash up on it sometimes and get you wet if you walk out on it. I should know. lol. But a couple hundred feet and I was out at the end! It was really scary. I don't care to do that ever again. But a long way down from that me and Candi litterally almost stepped on HUGE seaturtles!! I'm not sure if they're the same onees but we got to touch them and everything! They actually stink! If you smell real close to them. And they're shells arent that slimmy either. We petted them and Candi kept taking pictures of them scaring them with the flash and blinding me and her with it! We walked a good 2 miles on the beach. Then came back up to the condo wanted to swim in the pool tonight because it's a pretty deep pool so we can go diving. But got too tired once again and here I am. I'm fighting to keep my eyes open now so I'll write again soon! Hawaii is a blast and I can't wait till I come back!

First Day In Hawaii!

Wow has it been lots of fun already! First day we got here we came without our mom cuz she was stuck in Minneapolis remember? Yea, well, we got to the hotel, settled in a little bit and me and Candi touched the ocean for the first time! That was really cool! After we walked just a little ways we had to go back to the condo so we could leave to get mom. Had trouble finding the airport....geez. But eventually did it. Got back to the condo and me and Candi walked for about a mile down the beach and back. It was awsome! That's all we really had time for. It started getting late and we were tired from the night before sleeping at the airport. You don't get good sleep there. Yea, nothing really exciting happened except we saw sea turtles!! In arms reach! That was cool :) There are a lot of birds here and geckos (you'll hear about that tomorrow). I'll tell more later. Don't really have time to write because at the end of the day you're SO tired. Well talk to you tomorrow!! (technically later tonight because I'm a day behind. Told you I get really busy and tired down here. Time difference)

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

My Trip To Hawaii

Well, I shall start off with the fact that on our way to Hawaii, that part did not go so good. First we got to Minneapolis no problem. But then we wanted to get a straight shot to Hawaii, that didn't happen. We were suppossed to get on a plane to go to Portland, OR. That flight got full. So mom made a call to get on another flight so we had to rush to get to that one. But then just me and Candi got on at first. Then we saw my dad get on...that was joyful. (sarcasim) So we got to go to Seattle, WA. We were going to get on a flight that went to Hawaii there, but then that one was full! Agh! So now this was getting REALLY frusterating. We asked the gate againt (sp?) what time the next flight left for Hawaii and they said not till 8:30am!!! It was 1:30pm right then. We had a LONG wait. So we had a problem listing us on the waiting list to go to Hawaii because my mom wasn't with us because she was the employee and because we had Candi with, we couldn't really fly without her. And I wasn't going to leave Candi by herself at an airport while me and dad went to Hawaii. So then we tried to get back to Minnesota to fly back with mom but it still wouldn't let us fly. But somehow we got from Minnesota to Washington without her. (this is where it gets technical with airline employee stuff so i'm just going to skip it) The gate peeps eventually got us on the Hawaii flight out of Seattle. So me and Candi found a place on the floor at the airport and we slept there with all our luggage. Fun fun. The morning came and we left for Hawaii, first class too :) that was nice! And when you fall asleep at the airport and there's no one around you, then when you wake up there's strangers all around you, it's really weird. lol. I don't ever want to do that again. I hope it doesn't happen to any of you guys either. It really sucks! I'll tell you about my first day in Hawaii later. Right now I'm really hungry and me and Candi want to go find some food.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

An Exciting Day!

So, today wasn't that bad...not last to do taxes in my area but pretty close. haha. I don't owe anything, but I get a whole bunch back! Yes! :) Very happy. But that isn't how my day started. It started by me laying in bed and waisting time for a half hour sleeping when I should of been getting ready to leave for the dentist.

Got to dentist with rents and they left me there. Put twice the amount of novicane in me to numb me up, he went through some muscles so now my jaw REALLY hurts! I was numb for 3 hours AFTER the dentist. It was just a quick small little cavity. Then we ventured our way to JC Penny's to get some suit cases for Hawaii :) Then we went to Wal-Mart and got some groceries for tonight and some other things. Rents making California Hambergers as I type. Yum Yum can't wait to eat them. Went home then rushed to the tax lady because we were late for our appointment. Then after that went back into town and went shopping at Marices and bought more really cute clothes for Hawaii :) Went to the tanning salon to check for tanning sesions, of course there's none open for another half hour. So we just skipped it. We both wanted to get home.

So that was my day. My jaw still hurts and I'm tired. Wanted a nap but now it's too late to go to sleep. I'm so pumped for Hawaii!!! Me and Candi are you going to have SO much fun! Oh, and I just bought a video camera for Hawaii and Afghanistan too! can't wait till I actually record something worth keeping. Haha. Well, I have to go see if the foods ready. I'll write back in here later!

Monday, April 13, 2009

A Weekend With The Grand Rents!

So, to start off our wonderful journey that takes over 5 hours to get to our destination, I pack my clothes and I’m all ready to go. But of course I forgot about something. How I’m going to take care of my cat while we’re gone. This isn’t the first time we left her but it’s her first time all by herself. My other cat Weedo died recently and she always had him for help. She (Cookie) is still a kitten kind of. I think she turns 2 this year! Well, all we ever did with Weedo was stick him outside with some food and water. I live out in the country so they’re outside all the time hunting, sunbathing, and whatever else it is that cats do outside. Sit and smoke weed probably. Just kidding. So I tried to find her and make sure she wasn’t in the house at all…couldn’t find her…so she was hopefully already outside. So then we left a little after 6pm.

So, here we are traveling the long road….try to watch a movie. Got no luck with that. I only got to the part watching Wall~E where Eva and wall e were dancing in space together with a fire extinguisher. Then I tired to fall asleep, but I kept on getting calls on my cell phone and texts. I figured I’d take advantage of the opportunity to talk to people since I’m never in service at home. So I got to catch up on a couple of my peeps that I don’t talk to much.

Finally, just a little after 11pm, we have reached our destination. With lots of smiling faces at that that I haven’t seen in a long time. But then my heart gets heavy when I think that this will be the last time till I get back when I see my cousins and some of my other family. So first to greet me of course is my awesome cousin Katlyn, 11! Had to ask her for a hug though L but I got one! And Nick said hi. Haha. He’s your typical almost 13 year old by that doesn’t like the mushy stuff. I had a blast with them at the park! Both parks. We went on the swings and climbed on everything. Went to a second park, kind of swung, but they were really bad swings. I attempted to cross the monkey bars, failed miserably at that. Katie and Nick did better than me. J After the parks we went to the ball park and ran around the bases, walked through the bleachers, messed with the score bored and Nick found a dollar! LUCKY!! We fallowed a bunny that Nick couldn’t see and tired to catch him but he went under a white shack. There were holes dug all around that shack. Lol. Personal mansion for that little bunny, so then that led to us going to the benches, then me and Nick saw a red hand water pump and pretended that we were super dehydrated kids and guess what, what I expected was something different. There REALLY was no water! Then a little ways off there was another one. It too was the same, no water. HA! If we were really dehydrated I would have been worried. But we were in town and we were just playing.

The next day, my other cousin came, Grace, 4, with my aunt and uncle of course. We had a HUGE dinner with my favorite foods, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, cinnamon/brown sugared ham, and…wow it was just yesterday and I know there were four things that I just ate. Is this a sign that I’m getting old? Dang.

After dinner me, Katie, Nick, and Grace went to the park AGAIN! I was getting so tired and I was swinging so much I felt nauseous. After about another 3 hours of playing at the park and 2 hours of playing Mario on grannies DS and playing the Super Nintendo (my personal favorite game system in the world) after that they all had to go home. Said out last goodbyes. It was emotional them leaving and seeing them for the last time till I get back. But that’s all I’ll say before I get too emotional again.

Then the next day I went home. Which I’m writing this in the car ride home now. Still about a half hour to go. I’m really tired and have a headache from riding in the car. Yes, I do get sick from riding in the car for too long without breaks and look, I became a truck driver. Haha. Who would’ve guess??

Well, 7 days till I’m in Hawaii with my best friend Candi! I’m so excited and glad that she’s going to come. Wish I could bring the other 2 Steph and Lynard (jen), but they’re in Florida right now like I said, and my other best friends Manders (Amanda) lives by the cities. I haven’t actually heard from her in a long time. I should give her a call see what she’s up to.
Anyway, enough of me rambling on! Haha. The name suits me well. Thanks T.J. J I will blog later this week!

Friday, April 10, 2009

Some Good News!

Ok. Since Sgt. Guardsman commented on my last post about me going to Hawaii it's not that much of a surprise to you...someone just HAD to ruin the secret. And now it's out. Yes it is true, I'm going to Hawaii this month in ten days! It'll be the twentieth through the twenty-sixth. I cannot wait! And the best part about all this, is that my best friend Candi is coming with me! I do actually have 4 best friends. I don't know if that is aloud but I do have that many. The one thing that I'm actually really excited to go do is go horseback riding!! Of course because I LOVE horses! And another one is going snorkling, and the water slides that is at our condo. Yes we're staying in condos! At night, the reason I wanted one of my best friends to come, is to go dancing late at night! I bought the perfect dress too! I'll take lots of pictures and post them on facebook for you guys!

Thursday, April 9, 2009

A Month of Troubles

Wow. That's all I can really explain the month of April. My last month at home and it's actually truning out to be pretty rotten. First off, no car. The timing belt broke on it along with other things that my partents failed to inform me on. The only thing they told me is that it would cost more than we wanted to fix it. They also told me it would be pointless to fix cuz it's too old of a car. Now it's only a '99, it's not that old to me. And I was willing to pay to fix it but guess what!? They told me no. So they'd rather me sit at home and do nothing. Other than what I did yesturday because my friends decided to be nice to me before they left for Florida. But, yes there is a but, there is this big red truck that sits in our driveway. It's one of those trucks that you just look at and then look at your vehicle and admire it that it's so much better than that truck. But really, that truck isn't half bad if you don't look at the rust, milage hog, and the hole in the drivers side floor!! Don't stick your foot in the wrong spot! You'll slip through! haha. But other than that that truck runs great! I don't mind it too much myself if I may say. Oh, and I forgot to mention the expired tabs. lol. I looked and they're only a year old so it couldn't be too bad. Unless they needed new plates to go along with it which I think they're also due on that truck.

And since today got to be a pretty nice day outside I decided to set the hammock I got for my mom last year for mothers day. So, I set it up, took me a matter of a half hour including getting it in the right spot that I wanted it. Away from the wind and in the sun. Tried to take a nap but couldn't fall asleep. This was around noon thirty. So I take my laptop outside and start opening it. When my dad's pug decided to jump up on there with me, he jumped right on top of my laptop! For a little while three of my keys didn't work! I let it sit for awhile and it worked eventually. That dog is very lucky. And of course i kicked him off the hammock after he did that. Almost litterally! Sometimes I wish we never got that dog because all he does most of the time is beg for food and fart. REALLY stinky farts too. Clear the room or you'll die kind of farts. I'm not kidding. And this is coming out from a little pug! Who knew something that little and that cute could stink that much!? Well, after a few hours of being back inside the house and failing before to take a nap, I go back out there just before 3:30pm and take another nap. Just before falling asleep some telemarketer calls! Hang up with them, then about 10 minutes later one of my friends call, hang up with them after approximently 10 minutes, almost exactly 10 minutes later my brother calls from Kentucky, talk to him for 7 minutes. After another 10 minutes ANOTHER phone call from somebody I don't know. I don't even answer that one by then. It was another telemarketer as far as I know. So in all that I was just getting to sleep after every time the phone rang. Dang what does a girl got to do around here to get some sleep!? I love taking naps. I feel so good after taking them.

Throughout the day I always carry my cell phone with me because there's a really good friend that I can text through email. And after I came back from my second attempt on my nap, I haven't seen my phone since then. It's now just past 1 am the next morning...still no cell phone. I'll go back outside and look in the morning :(

Now I really don't think my life could get any worse. Although it possibly could after I tell you this. One of my really good friend from AIT (advanced individual training, in case you were wondering) in the army called me early this morning to tell me another friend from AIT was killed in a car accident. His number is in my phone (which I can't find) and I don't know wether I should leave it in there as a reminder, or delete his number forever. It's really sad talking about people dieing. I don't like it. And I'm not going to even get into the little 5 year old boy that got ran over by a bus last Friday. That is too much too. There seems to be too much death going around right now. And hopefully I won't even see this much when I'm in Afghanistan. There's more people I know that've died here. But I really do hate talking about death so I prefer not to mention them.

That pretty much sums up my day. At least I can look on the bright side and say I still have my laptop for communicating to outside of my perimeter of my house. haha. Barely saved my laptop from the dog though. He's lucky to still be alive. Well that's it for now. I'll write later!

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Hanging With Friends :)

Today, woke up today and decided to call one of my best friend. All I wanted to do was call her(Steph) to tell her I was thinking about her. I left a message on her cell phone saying that I made a Chocolate Banana Smoothie, then she called back and said "hey I have things to do today when I'm done I can come pick you up." (I do not have a car right now because mine just broke) I live a long way away from town so her coming to pick me up was awsome. Very excitedly I said yes. So like any two girls we went tanning and shopping! I'm having an awsome time, right now I'm just waiting for her sister to get done with work which she (Jen) is my other best friend. Since they are sisters and they're really close, what I tell one the other will know within a matter of minutes so I just consider both of them by best friends. We're all close in age, Steph is the same age as me but Jen is a year and a half younger than us. But all have a lot in common and LOVE the same stuff. But the funny thing is, is that I think we have different tastes in men.....some things are the same....but when it comes to men we kinda differ a lot about that. haha. But differences is what keeps us close! I love those two with all my heart. Later tonight we're going for a jog/walk, and then hot tubing!!! I can't wait! I'll let you know how the rest of my night goes later.

So, yes I had a fun night! We went to Steph's friends house to get in the hot tub and had a blast. Talked girl talk for about 2 hours and just got out. Then went back to Steph's house to eat and her mom bought the best Papa Murphey's pizza ever! It was really good. Then we watched a couple movies...well more like a movie and a quarter...fell asleep on the second one. And I really wanted to see it, Fools Gold, haven't seen it yet. Now I'm starving and going to dig in their kitchen for breakfast :)

Monday, April 6, 2009

Plans Before I Leave

So, before I leave there is a list of things that I would love to do. Some I have already plans with people just not set with dates. For examples some things I would like to do is go horseback riding. But so far i I'm only going to go see some friends' horses. Unless it's descent outside in the high 40's then we can go riding! I really hope it is. Other things are some new movies that are coming out in theaters. One of them being the new Star Trek movie. I'm going to miss the Transformers 2 :( The second movie would be the Wolverine: X-Men Orgins. Hopfully someone in my unit will be able to stream those movies so we can watch them. And going fourwheeling with friends is something I'd really like to do too. The last thing is making a trip to the Twin Cities so I can see some long lost friends that moved down there after high school. So those are all my main things that that I would love to do. I will write back in here when one of them is done.

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Welcome To My Blog

Hey guys!
Thanks for coming into my blog! I made this blog to keep in touch with my friends and family while I'm on deployment in Afghanistan. But anybody else that would like to read and comment on what I'm doing I'm more than happy to know that you're interested.