aloha!

so i am currently in hawaii, in the city of honolulu on waikiki beach!

it's beautiful here. the flight here was long. we left charleston wv at 4:15 am plane flew out at 6:15 and we left for hawaii from houston. it was an 8 hour flight, and i tried to sleep most of the way because of the 5 hour time difference. im suprised at how well my body has adjusted, we'll see for real tomorrow though. hahahah.

hawaii really is a paradise. even though it's "chilly" by island standards right now (high of 79 today) it's still beautiful out. with a nice warm breeze that is around almost constantly. we're stayin right near wikiki beach so i can just walk to the beach.

i am in heaven! if you don't already know i collect pineapples, and hawaii is the land of pineapples. i've had to show some serious restraint. but i do have a long term plan to have a kitchen more or less focused on pineapples, pineapples and ceramics. might be an awkward mix. i finally manged to buy pineapple shaped salt and pepper shakers, amazing kitsch pineapple coaster set, a pineapple bowl, pineapple post its, pineapple reusable wine cork, pineapple post card, and a pineapple keychain. i founda pitcher that i will definitely be buying when i get my 1st apt. actually i plan on coming ot hawaii to furnish my 1st apts kitchen. gives me an excuse to come back.

i'm already spending way too much money here. (first see above with my pineapple obsessions)
but really today i splurged hardcore and gave myself a spa treatment, i got a detox and metabolism boosting wrap, which was incredibly pleasant, something new i had never done, and i also got myself a hand massage. it was WONDERFUL. but expensive. but worth it. if i had more money i woudl go back and get a massage too. but i can't afford it lol.

after that i walked along the beach and bummed around. i was outside for like an hour and got wicked sunburn i couldn't even believe it earlier tonight when i looked down and realized i was all kinds of red. it's weird to have a sun burn in february, but i'm not complaining at all! hahaha.

after that i shopped most of the day but only after going out for AMAZNING sushi to this restaurant we went to last night. i think i've decided that sushi is one of my favorite foods. though really, the best sushi i've had was with kyla in burlington vt, not what you'd expect right. when i get back to btown i want to try bizen again.

tomorrow i'm going to rent a surfboard with a paddle to give surfing a go without having to go from laying down to standing, though i think i could do it. we'll see. i'm excited. the ocean here is beautiful and clear and turquoise. i love it. the waves crash pretty far out too so i can be out of ppls way. if it's wicked crowded tomorrow i don' t know what i'm going to do. b/c i don't know how fun it'll be if things are paaaaaackkeeeeed. but tomorrow i will def put my new sunscreen on.

anyways. that's about it now. i'll update more as we go on. hopefully some pics soon.

i keep forgetting to do this

hey all. so now i'm in texas. since i've last left you i've been to vegas where i got to see some family, which was cool. i also saw 2 cirque du soleil shows. O and Ka. i splurged on myself and spent waaaay to much money but got myself 3rd and 5th row seats in the center section. totally worth it. O was my favorite. it has a giant pool in it. i spent as much time watching the mechanics of the show as i did the acrobatics. it was so much fun for me. Ka was mechanically astounding. but i still liked O better. Vegas was fun. i made a little bit of money on slot machines, but not much to be too excited about. After Vegas we went to washington state. which was cool. Washington reminded me home a little, with the mountains and the trees. though it was much much warmer. We were outside of seattle but I didn't get a chance to go into the city b/c i spent all my money in bellevue WA on a new portable gaming system and delicious delicious tea from this place called teavana. I'm going to buy myself more from them online soon. I have never had such good tea in my life.
After washington it was off to california. I 5 was closed bc of blizzard like conditions, which in one way was cool because we got to drive through the redwood forest and see the pacific but it made our day so much longer and we ended up off our normal course. Still pretty cool though. After california we repeated our drive through new mexico arizona and texas. Texas was, once again, booooooooriiiiinggggg. I swear I 10 is one of the most boring roads ever made. It's like someone went. I have an idea, let's put a road in texas that goes through nothing, has nothing on it and gets you almost nowhere. yeah that sounds like a plan. oh man. we go to hawaii soon. which is going to be rough.
things continue well. i'm loving being on the road still.
here's some pictures i took out of order b/c im too lazy to fix it.


from the amazing restaurant we went to in boise idaho. amazing salad, amazing pizza and amazing beer. what more could you ask for?



a picture i took in bellevue washington


got to watch a master glass blower work in tacoma washington. it was so cool.

on the road in washington

falcon ridge!!!!

bellagio fountains in vegas


hahahah

obviously i went to paris.


the hoover dam!