Thursday, May 10, 2007

First 3 Days

Tuesday
I got in at around noon where my friend Deborah came to pick me up at the airport by her house. We went to their local (and the island's largest) mall that consists of many of those shops found in the UTC mall in La Jolla, S.D. After that, we met up with some of Deborah's friends and watched a movie and had some Kalua Pig for dinner that her parents made.

Wednesday
Debrah and I woke up at around 8am here which is 11am in CA and I had my first taste of SPAM. It wasn't what I expected it to be because it was flippin delicious! They fry it in soy sauce and plain white sugar and they make such things as spam musubi with this type of spam (add rice and seaweed).
I also got shaved ice at a janky local laundry mart nearby at 9 that night.

Thursday
Deb and I were going to wake up at 2:40am and head up the volcano to watch the sunrise but surprisingly, that didn't work out with us. So we woke up at 7 instead and went to I.H.O.P. with one of our friends, Sheldon who spotted the whole check :)
Then my other friend from school, Mei Lan, came in to the airport and we picked her up. Before her and I went to move in to her family's house in Lahaina, we went up the mountain (the west lump of dirt on Maui, not the volcano) and found a waterfall and pool to jump into. There was a river that was hidden deap in the forest on the north side of the moutain. Mei and I were sitting in the back of Sheldon's truck because it's only legal in HI! The same with wearing seatbelts: not necessary in the back seat for those 18+. Money.
We finally went to Lahaina where we went to the nicest beach I have ever seen. Some of Mei's friends came to her house and stayed playing music and learning ASL until 1:30am.

All in all some good times.

1 comment:

beth van boxtel said...

i laughed at the "lump of dirt" thing