December 1, 2006

• THANKSGIVING…

  in HAWAII!
  
  so we spent the past week, including the thanksgiving holiday, on the big island… my first thanksgiving away from home/family/friends… but it was nice to just relax and take it easy… especially for pat… a lot of the time was spent in front of the tv wat ching….(you can probably skip the next bit if you don’t like sports)
  
  college basketball: ucla in the maui invitational…..pat tried getting tix but it was already sold out… and apparently we looked up later and found out there was a whole package for like 2000 something with flight and lodging and thanksgiving dinner with the team!  hah… anyway… we won!  beating kentucky and georgia tech... woohoo!  yeah for bruin basketball… pretty awesome… then watched the great alaskan shoot out and watched cal win that… and then one of the best games… florida (STUPID) v. kansas… at the las vegas tournament… went to OT.. which actually shouldn’t have been an overtime…but still… kansas won! muahahahahaha… stupid florida… i’m glad they lost!  on to college football… watched the usc v. game…despite being a ucla fan all the way i’m glad usc won… just to show the pac-10 is awesome… watched lots more… some that i remember (off the top of my head)… notre dameboise state v. nevada… asu v. arizona (glad asu won… otherwise az would move up in the pac-10 and pass us in the tie for i forgot what place)…. south florida v. west virginia.. ummm… that’s all i can think of for now… but there were a lot of upsets…. oh yeah.. we even watched women’s volleyball!  ucla v. usc… and we won!  woohoo… and part of the stanford  v. washington game…
  
  anyway… we flew into kona and went straight to the costco for food… and this costco was AWESOME!  it had a lot of my favorite asian foods in bulk… such a pity they don’t have stuff like that here… stocked up on some food and checked in… i guess the highlight of the first day was COSTCO!
  
  trip highlights:
  -checked out the beaches near the waikaloa village….ooooooooo pretty olivine
  
  -short hike to the puako petroglyphs…
  
  -pololu valley
  
  
  -turtles!
  
  -end of chain of craters road
  
  -thurston lava tube…the dark portion with headlamps… but still super dark!
  
  -mauna kea visitor center…volcanic bomb…view of mauna loa…and mauna kea
  
  -looking at the sun with a telescope…
  
  -shave ice
  
  -waipi’o valley
  
  -malasadas from tex’s
  
  
  -beautiful views driving
  
  thanksgiving day… one that i will definitely remember… not b/c it was just the two of us.. .but b/c there was an earthquake!  i was walking into the kitchen and pat was taking a shower… and there was this jolt… although i guess the both of us first thought about the family staying above us… b/c you would hear constant stomping… or at least figure out where these people were!  but it was definitely too big for that!
  
   
  
  we took guesses at how big it was… but it was bigger than we thought… it was a 5.0 with the epicenter near waikaloa… a aftershock from the october earthquakes they had last month… it took about 20 minutes later for anything to come on tv about it…

  

  
  the week was definitely nice… despite being away from black friday shopping and best buy…. no crowds, not having to worry about parking… just awesome views everywhere and a relaxing time….
  

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