Relays and Races, how exciting!!!

To remind you all of this coming weeks event, I shall post a sweet video, taken by your truely!!! of my favorite thing to spend money on.
2007 EISF Indian Relay, 9-3-07

An update

Holy crap is school keeping me bus, but I did put together a slide show so you can see a few pics of my experience in hawaii for the summer.

Excitement and Anxiety

Today is the last day in Hawaii, its exciting to get back to what I had going on in Idaho but at the same time it will be hard to adjust to the time and not being able to go swim in a pool or the beach every morning.
This morning we got up early and watched the sun rise, I got some great pics of that. I did try to post them except the connection doesn't seem to be working well to upload photos. It was great so see, I will post a few pics once I get some wireless directly to my MAC.
I decided not to go to church today since I need to pack everything, so I will miss the fun aloha oye song.
I land in Idaho at 2:00 pm, this will be a crazy day, for sure!!! I have class that night on top of moving into a new place so I have a place to sleep. It is just so exciting.
that's it for this blog, nothing much to write about since I cant load pictures. Soon I shall write a long blog, my normal crap. LMFAO!!

Later

Hope it is all passed

Dear Blog Buddies ( as ross the intern would say in his annoying gay voice, none the less, funny on Leno!)

I am glad July is over and August is here! August is one of my more favorite times of the year because it means fall is coming, the gardens are almost ready to harvest, and from years past, it has been the funnest part of wal*Mart, fall in general. Wal*Mart would always get ready for the holidays and we would bring in new food and specialized foods just for the seasons, for some reason I really enjoyed that, that would be one reason I do miss the business. It was also because I worked with good people who had fun but worked hard, we had always accomplished so much, days went by so fast, it was so busy. I am excited right now!!! But those are days that are gone now. I now have other things to be excited for, I am moving back to Idaho in a new place, with new people, some I know some I don't know, and school starts up. I admit that I do enjoy going to school; at fall time I always feel like a little kid who is starting school for the first time, riding the school bus and meeting all these new people. So I guess I am in the same boat at Emily and Connor, LOL, speaking of those two, I forgot mom wanted me to go get little things to send to them because they like getting mail. I doubt they will understand it come from Hawaii but will be excited and happy to get mail, maybe it will be memorable to them. I guess it will be a little late but they will still get it.

I just think that I am starting from scratch pretty much, I will be like a kid learning to live on his own. I have to look for a job, start trying to build back my savings account while paying my bills and trying to keep sane with school work too. I am not in reality yet, but once Im there I am sure I wont be as excited because a year ago I had a huge savings, money coming in, did not have to live like a peasant, could go do things and not turn fun stuff down because I was broke. Well, that is one side, but I gotta keep reminding myself its just another bump on the road.

Once I get home and get all moved into the new place then the EISF will be here and I will have time to go spend my afternoons at the races! The family will be out and about during that time so it should be good times.

What a Day

Mein Tag Gut! Ja!!!!
A rainbow on way to Waikiki

So today actually started out with me in a bad mood, not feeling any desire to do anything or talk to anyone, but after getting the nudging by the spirit to make sure I did not miss Sunday school today was a true blessing!!! Lately I have been having a tough time keeping my thoughts positive or even wanting to be happy with people, when dealing with people will make me happy because I can get a little good energy and go with it, but it just has not been the case. So today I turned down the chance to hit the beach, which I am so glad with my choice. Some of the things discussed in church is what I really needed to hear. In sacrament meeting a couple gave their talks, they really were exciting to listen to, they both put out such great excitement while talking. They listed all the cool things they did with their kids to help keep them on track with religious teachings and enforce the culture. I just hope and pray that when I have kids that I will be that creative..... which reminded me of something else, somewhere today I heard something about all of our own talents we have and need to use, I don't actually recall if it was the same talk or not, but I thought about it allot today. I was thinking back when I was younger and how our parents taught us allot of what they knew, now I don't know if any of this will do me much good in my future but it is neat to know I have been taught these things!
As I thought on it, my parents were and still to this day hard workers, they always demonstrated hard work and a diligence to do good for others to get an honest pay for what you do. We of course got told to do our best and got the guilt trip if we ever turned anyone down to do some work for money or doing a half way job. But I thought more into it, what talents do I really have from my parents??? Well, here is what I could come up with- Mom, mom is very creative and good with kids, she loves to interact with kids, I think I have always been good with them and I do love playing with babies, I may not be as fun as she is of course, but that is not of importance to me right now. She also is crafty, she likes artistic sorts of things, how I relate to this... well, I love to draw, when I feel like drawing and painting I can come up with some really cool ideas, I enjoy doing weird crafty things too. I know she loves when people commented on her crafts, one being her ability to braid hair, which she showed Russel how to do. He took it to another venue, he can brain horse tail, mane, leather, rawhide, and other materials, I know he has made money doing this. I can not braid as good as him or Michelle. But I have braided before and I know I can do it if I want to. Russel and mom liked to do those things, they would work together learning how to braid special knots too. I know Michelle can braid hair too, I remember once a friend of mine had braided her own hair and it come loose or something so at work she was telling me, so I offered to re-braid it and make it tighter, I know she thought I was nuts, but we went to the back and I did it. We had to go where no one was, I didn't really want anyone to know I could do that. LOL. I can actually bead too.
Dad- aside the hard worker, he was good with kids too, but he is always cheery. He also taught us how to care for animals, although I have grandmas sense of no feeling for certain animals (mainly small dogs and damn cats, house animals that is), but learned alot about horses, me and shell may not demonstrate it, but we have the know how on those things. Like I said, I don't know where this will come in useful for me, but I am sure it will. There is more things that I could go on, but those are the ones that are popping into my head now.
So tonight I went with Brent's Family to some Magic Island, I have never heard of it before, but they had a small carnival going on, they had pig racing, I have never seen that before, it was pretty fun to watch!

Pig Races

Trapeze Artists

Shizz Nitt

I decided to write a blog because I am bored and do not feel like swimming right now. I thought I would throw up a few pictures of the things that I have done. We did go to the PCC, which I wrote about in a different blog. Then last week we went out and swam with sharks in the ocean...
We had to be to the other side of the island by 5:30am that morning, it was an early one too! We had to get up at 4:00am to be there on time, but once we got there it was a little bit chilly but once we got on the boat and headed out it did not feel that bad. How they do it, well they have about 8 people on board and a huge cage tied to the back of the boat. You go 3-4 miles off shore, we was going off the North shore-- Haliewa to be exact, once we get to the buoy to tie onto they drop the cage so we can crawl into it and then they release it. When I say release I don't mean we are out at sea stranded, we are a few feet away from the boat with a lead line still attached so we don't float away. The cage is a metal cage that has been spaced enough that sharks can no get in. Once we stopped the boat it was neat to see sharks coming to the surface, they say that the sharks are trained now to come when they hear the engine of the boat because back in the day when the crab boats threw back the crabs they didn't want, it was free food for the sharks. So when we park and set for a few minutes that sharks will come right to the surface. They did play the theme song from jaws, which was pretty funny!
So I was the first one in the cage, I was nervous! It was a freaky feeling putting my feet into water that I had no idea what was in there, but I stepped in the cage, by the way, the undercurrent was bad that day, it was windy and the boat was getting some rocking motion going on. Once in the water it was amazing to see the sharks in their own environment and swimming so close to us. I looked down and seen a shark below us, the color of his skin and the ocean mixed together gave the shark an ambiance of blue, it was really fascinating to just see it. Also seeing a shark from afar come swimming directly towards us was pretty amazing too, unfortunately at that time I got water in my snorkel so I had to go up to release the water. But just being down there and seeing it is an experience I do not regret! The pictures everyone took did not turn out, so we have no underwater pics from our own trip. Its sad, I know!!!

Early in the Morning, on the boat!

this is Oahu from the Ocean, the sun is still rising!

Another photo, this was looking at the Island

Statue at PCC

Canoe Festival at PCC

Stopped and waiting for sharks