I'm back from my quick 5.5 day trip to California. Great fun, great company, so much greatness that I will have blog about it later. So for now I'll blog about Erinrin, the dog we dogsat for like 2.5 weeks. I love how dogs are just welcoming when you get home. It's like they're saying, "Oh boy, oh boy, your home, I've missed you alllllllllll day." What I hated about dogsitting... they're freakin smart, and they know when they are being sneaky bitches. That and she threw up a couple of times and chewed Malia's retainer. I can't wait to get my own dog, preferably a Shiba Inu, though I hear they are hard to train. Oh well I was hard to train and look at me now, fresher than a muthaf.....! (just kidding).
The second photo is of the moon, when it was supposed to be 14% bigger than usual. It didn't look too much bigger than it usually did, tho. But I'm glad it was a clear night and I was able to get a good shot.
Ahhhh now I'm off to work.... I miss you California.

I was blessed with another WHOLE weekend off. Sometimes I think it's work it to be scheduled 12 days straight to get 2 days in a row off.... sometimes. And it was another weekend spent in a bikini. I enjoyed another Triple B Saturday with the bong crew (Triple B=Beach x Basketball x Beer Pong). After a full day of sun at Sandys, Courtney and I tracked down the Melt truck for another taste. We both had the Magical Mushroom Melt, messy but oh so awesome. Basketball was great, we tried to play at Kanewai Park (my old stomping grounds in college) but they took out the lights and the people didn't want to play with us. So we headed back to Makiki Park for some full-court ball. After two quick games and a shower, we ended the night with beer pong and king's cup at Tony and Christina's. The SOD's (Supervisors on Duty me and Chaz) defeated Stock-Peter and Tony AND Sales-Matt and Christina, what can say that's how we roll!
Sunday was spent at Lanikai with Malia and Kat. I haven't been to Lanikai since the break up, it was our favorite beach and we loved going into Kailua to eat. Slowly I've been returning to the places and things that we both called our favorite, and reclaiming them as just my favorite. Making new memories, sharing my favorite eating places, shops, etc. with other people I love. It was good to be back. Before we hit Lanikai we stopped in at Kalapawai Market, I had my usual Feta-Veggie on Foccacia with an Italian soda, oh how I've missed Kalapawai. Hands down the best sandwiches on the island.
It was a great weekend, sad to see it go so fast... no onto 10 days of straight work, then I'm off to Cali. It's a good thing I got some sun while I could I probably won't be back at the beach till April sometime!

I'm becoming quite the east-side adventurer, if I say so myself. Ok well maybe not so adventurous because I keep revisiting the same beaches, the same hikes. But I pretty much go every weekend. I had so much fun going sunrise hiking with my coworker Matt, I made Wayne come with me on a hike the week after. I thought it would be a great photog adventure, and that we'd get some great photos of the sunrise and hopefully some whales. Unfortunately everytime I busted out the camera, the whales decided to go back into the ocean. Bastards.  But at least I got some good photos of our hike and of Wayne.
After we headed to Cafe Kaila for some breakfast, but had some awful service... well not service as a whole, awful seating service, read my Yelp review.

Team Billabong Waikiki

I've been getting basketballin on lately. I forgot how much I love playing basketball. In college we used to play weekly, in freshmen year daily! I'm not the greatest player, but back in my prime I think I was a decent defensive player (I think it was my long arms). I'm not so much the shooter or point guarder because I get really nervous. In time hopefully I'll get my swag back.
I have another whole weekend off ahead of me... I'm excited. We already have a hike+beach+basketball sesh+maybe yakiniku planned. I can't wait, hopefully the weather will cooroperate.
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We survived our tsunami warning. Anna and I passed out in the living room watching the news, hoping to not have to work. Unfortunately we both did, but fortunately nothing was severely damaged here. My thoughts and prayers go out to Japan (one of my most favorite places in the world). I've already pledged money to the Red Cross (text REDCROSS to 90999, and $10 goes to the Red Cross and will be billed to your phone bill). We were watching the footage at work, the tsunami almost looked like storm scene in Ponyo, devastating.

Me and Anna getting ready for the tsunami

View from Hookipa during last year's tsunami warning.

There's a tsunami warning right now. Though my heart goes out to everyone in Japan, I can't help but to be reminded of last years tsunami warning (lamest tsunami warning ever). I went to Maui for the weekend AND super excited to go freaking whale watching. EVERYTHING got cancelled due to this so called tsunami warning. It did get rescheduled for the next day, but of course with my luck the weather COMPLETELY sucked. Meh.
I miss Hookipa btw. Oh Maui.