I know that sounds annoying and cliche to people not in or from Hawaii, but that is the formal greeting here. Every time you meet someone they say it. People say it when they go to the pulpit at church... and the congregation shouts it back! However, if you say it in an informal setting, like passing an old lady walking down the street, she WILL laugh at you! So, take that for whatever its worth next time you visit Hawaii.
I watched the movie Blue Crush yesterday. I am starting to reconsider my interest in surfing. If you haven't seen it, its worth watching the last 30 minutes just to see the size of the waves. Terrifying. I did learn, however, that the best surfing is in the winter. The waves are much bigger for some complex scientific reason. Zack and I are looking forward to attending some surfing competitions this winter, just one of the many perks to living on the North Shore.
After being here almost a month, you'd think our skin would start adjusting to the sun. It has not. We went to the beach for like 3 or 4 hours one day and we got fried. Luckily, the humidity in the air is helping us avoid peeling so we're maintaining some sort of tan. Maybe someday we'll just tan instead of burn. Maybe someday.
I didn't take many pictures this week, but I'll upload the two I did.
Mahalo for reading! Love and miss you guys!
A lot of the locals around here are very protective of the land and don't appreciate all the tourists. Every once in a while there are signs by people's houses with funny things on them. We laugh at this every time we drive by!
Our lizard friend! At the bottom of the stairs there is a planter with all of these flowers and the lizards LOVE THEM! There are easily 50 lizards that live in this planter. This guy is one of the biggest ones we've seen!
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