Fun on Mauna Kea!

I know I'm a little behind on the update, but I didn't have time to edit my pictures until now.

On Saturday, our wonderful friends gave us the opportunity to experience the tallest mountain in the world (6,ooo ft of it underwater). It was such an amazing trip!

It started with me, Steff, Sam and Joe picking up our friend James. Then we headed over to his friends house for the more suitable car for the journey. We all piled into the truck and went to gas up and stock up on munchies. Auntie Thelma made us DELICIOUS sandwiches so we only needed chips and such.

This took like three hours total, so, as you can imagine, we were all thrilled to finally be on our way.

The scenery was surreal: Beautiful green pastures, many combaya trees, wild animals running free (well not really free).... it was amazing. As we gained elevation, the warmth thinned, and soon enough, so did the air. When we were at the half way mark we all could feel it.
After that point, it was the obvious DANGER journey. The road was gravel, half of it was one laned, and very steep! AND SUUUPPPERRR high up. Yeah, I'll admit it- I WAS a little scared.
Anyways we got up all safe and sound. Then when we hopped out of the truck for a bathroom break, Steff and I nearly feel over because of how light headed we were. When I say the air was thin, I mean it! We felt HIGH literally!
Anyways after that it was all fun and all games. We sled on body boards (and walked slowly back up cuz we were always out-of-breath), ate and sled some more!

Here are some piks so you guys get the idea..

Steff and I

Race down the hill

Me sledding down

Our Snowmen (Umpa Lumpa and Willie Wonka)

Sam trying to get his feet warm

(soaked so he took everything off) 

Steff in the lead

Joe standing on his board while sledding down.

Steff with Umpa (Before we made Willie)

Me with Umpa!

Well that's a little of our adventure. Sorry that the Piks are mostly grey scale, for some reason my computer doesn't allow me to use PICNIK so I had to use some nock-off, no offense to FOTOFLEXER..



Typical Night Shift?

So, as I was at work Sunday night, Chris (the bartender) walks up to me in the waiter station and tells me to go say hi to one of his buddies sitting at the bar (apparently he thought I was hot). Funny thing to know: Ten minutes before, another guy from the bar tried to make a move on me as I was seating costumers. As I walked past him, he leaned into me, slightly pushing me with his shoulder. Then we parted separate ways and he laughed it off, pretending I was trying to get away from him (which is partially true.)

Anyways, Chris exp lanes what his friend looks like and tells me he's sitting at the end of the bar.

Right. Black shirt. Black hat. End of bar.

So I approach and tap the guy who was trying to get at me earlier and see Chris In the back shaking his head and hands that that was the wrong guy......

THHHEEEENNNNN he points at the other end of the bar.

Of coarse. There had to be two guys with black shirts and hats on both ends of the bar. Anyways I come up to the right guy and chat for a sec. (Hate it when you get set up by people and cant really get out of a situation.) He tells me his name... I tell him mine, then I get back to work

Then he approaches my Hostess stand and small talks there as well. Obvious that he had a little too much to drink, since the cheesiest line he came up with was "So tell me a little more about yourself"......Good one....

Anyways we talk for a little and he asks me how old I was. 19.

"Really? You carry yourself a little older that that."

"How old'd you think I was"

"Like 21"

"mmmm....How old are you?"
"26......well anyways Ima get back to the bar"

Nice way of telling me Im young. Respect for the guy tho- I was actually surprised that he backed off right when he found out how young I was.

Anyways.....the piks were all taken off google... but the guy did somewhat look like the guy from my story. Oh and I obviously abbreviated the convos a little. That was just a little something that happens very often and so I decided to share this story with you guys.