Aloha,

          This weekend was long. Because of the earthquake in Japan, we were told that a tsunami up to 6 feet tall would be hitting our chain of islands. We were blessed that nothing too terrible happened (Haiewa's harbor had damage, as well as in town there was some damage) but the school and the news told us that it would be best to evacuate to higher ground. The tsunami was expected to hit us at 3 am so we headed to Temple Hill to wait it out. The picture above is the view we had of the ocean. We set up our tent where we could see the ocean, so if anything happened we would be able to watch. However, nothing happened that was visible and setting a tent up parallel to the ocean meant we caught every sea breeze in our tent. No fun.

           At least we got to be close to the temple all night. It's hard to not feel safe when you're next to it. I wish I had taken a picture of the parking lot though, no one shies away from the temple when there's a tsunami coming.

 I guess being in a tent makes me local? I think I was very tired when I chose my hand gesture...

           My honey was so cold, wet and tired. It rained on us around 6 am and we had set up the rain fly wrong. In our defense, we set it up at 3 am and people were sleeping on the hill so we didn't want to have our flashlights out.

      That was our dog, Roxy and this was the beautiful day after the warning. We are very blessed that our paradise is safe. Our prayers are with all those who were affected by the earthquakes in Japan.

     
          I used past tense when referring to Roxy because we gave her back on Saturday. It was very emotional and sad, but she's not the right fit for us, and she deserves a family who can give her everything she's used to...like a yard. Now were on the search for our next baby (PUPPY people. Geez. No real babies anytime soon). We are looking into beagles because we fell in love with them. So hopefully we find one soon because we really miss having a dog to walk and play tug a war.

  

     A lot has been going on lately, but my internet doesn't work at the house so unfortunately it's hard to post because all of our pictures are on the laptop. I'm taking this really fun art 220 class for general and Mikey's gotten really into it to. We painted all weekend long and even invested in a bunch of cheap paintbrushes so we could do art stuff.

     One last thing for this post. The other day we made this most amazing, delicious dinner. It was AWESOME. It had chicken, peppers, broccoli, squash and cauliflower in it. We made it with whole wheat pasta and some kind of Alfredo and it turned out so good. We were very excited and happy about it.

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Can you tell? :)