Lucky to Live in Hawaii

Since I don't want to leave you hanging --- the car is fixed (prayerfully for the rest of it's time with me).
None of those issues were devastating or life shattering, mainly annoying and some of them costly.
Sorry for being a whiner!

I wanted to share one of my honu (turtle) buddies...

God's creation never ceases to amaze me. 

I feel incredibly lucky that I get to live in this extremely beautiful place!

I did a little island hop to Maui with my parents earlier this week, I will post some photos from that trip in the near future. I hope you are all doing well!

The breakdown.

I made it through...

• AT&T shuting off my texting plan when they turned off my husband's service
• The cable company  de-activating and un-registering our cable convertor box
• The truck's battery dying causing the security system to over-ride the keys and having to have the dealership reset the system and replace the battery
• My wine opener attacked me and gashed my finger open 
• The car (that we aren't keeping) needed $620 worth of new tires and brake fluid flushing/repair.
• Burning my arm on the pizza pan (gonna have a nice little scar)
• Dislocating my pinky toe not once but three times in 2 days!

But today... today, was my breakdown point in this deployment. Thankfully my dad is in town and he dealt with the tears and frustration. Let's put it this way- I am seriously wishing we had paid the $2000.00 to ship my Mazda here. It would have saved me many tears, headaches, and money. Hoping the repairs that were done today actually fix the issues on my island car... stupid island car... I want my Mazda 3 back =(

Kamekona

Any Hawaii Five-0 fans? I started watching before we even moved here... I love the show! So when I found out that Taylor Wiley (Kamekona) was going to be at our base's Earth Day Expo, I figured "why not meander down there and see how long the line is?"

It wasn't long at all, I waited maybe 15min. Sadly, his "handlers" (not sure what to call them) wouldn't let me just get a photo, I had to buy something from his merchandise rack for him to autograph- so I grabbed a cheap little "Shrimpin' Hawaii" backpack. I could honestly care less about the autograph, maybe I'll sell it on eBay?! Haha. As far as Taylor goes- he is a really laid back/chill guy. So, there's my "I met someone on TV" moment... haha.