Hawai'i

I don't think my trip could of been any better...well I guess it could of been better if it was longer.

Seeing Bucky again was great as always. We are sad that we don't live closer together. We really were each others most fun companions while on the mission.

So what did I do in HI. Pretty much just went to the beach. One day we went to Sharks Cove and did some snorkeling. That was amazing...we say and huge eel. Bucky said she had never even seen one that big. Then we ran into two sea turtles a mommy and baby. Which were just so cute. And just tons of really cool fish.

We spent a day at Wiamea Bay where i jumped the rock once again and really couldn't believe I did that when I was 8, thats Sophie's age. When Bucky jumped she hit the water wrong and fractured her baby toe. So the rest of the trip she was a gimp. Then I hurt my nose so bad once again. The pressure just hurt so bad when I went in. I have to get those pics from Tembre.

Thanks to Mom and Dad we found a great beach for Boogie Bording. It was so pretty and the waves couldn't of been anymore perfect. I had to stop my Sandy's of course and got in half way. Its amazing how strong those waves are. This local lady came up to us, Have you been here before?, Yes I said. Ok well these waves are really strong.

We headed into town one day and went to the swap meet then over to Pearl Harbor. I really enjoyed that again. War history is so interesting to me. Dad called and asked if I would buy him a new flag. Well the prices have gone up for sure. For one like ours it cost $70, I called him back and he said ours was still good. :-) I agreed. We dropped of Tembre with her friend she stayed the night with. The we headed back to Laie.

Sunday morning Tembre called and told me she was going home, yeah I couldn't believe it. I still really don't know why. She said she wasn't feeling good. She did get burnt good but it was nothing compared to what I have had in the passed. So she left and I stayed. I felt bad but she had it all arranged when she called.

Church was fun, I always like going to church in Hawaii. Although it did start at 2pm which made it late by the time we got out. The sun goes down so early there. Its dark by 7pm.

Monday the beaches where crazy due to Labor day. But we still went, when I say we I mean, Bucky and Bambi Buckys best friend there. We headed to Three Tables for some snorkeling but it wasn't very good so we went back to Sharks Cove. Once again we saw some amazing fish. We were out there for an hour.

Tuesday was wonderful. I spent the day at the beach for 6 hours. I was by myself since Bucky and Bambi had school but I didn't mind. It was wonderful. I loved every second.

So on Wednesday I was leaving. But not till 1:30pm, So we decided to go Kayaking in the morning. I was amazing. We went through a river and the forest surrounded us so much at times we had to lay down to get around. When we got back to the car we looked at the clock and it was 11:30..oops Thats when we were suppose to be leaving. So we hurried home, grab my stuff as I got lectured from her mom how I'm going to make my flight. We hurried to the airport, as fast as you can when the top speed limit it 50 mph. I made it with 30min to spear. However when I got the counter no one was there. A man came up to me to inform me that the flight was closed. I couldn't get on. A part of me wasn't sad at all. Bucky was still there so we got me a new flight for the next day then headed straight to Bambi's house to pick her up and we headed to the beach. It was so much fun. The waves were great and there was no one on the beach.

The next morning we woke up early, took Bucky to school then Bambi and I took a detour into town and got to the airport 2 hours before my flight. It was sad to leave, Bucky said she was crossing her fingers that I would and wouldn't make me flight.

I am considering of applying for school now....or maybe I should just look for an assisting job in over there.

Haystack Rock

On Monday is Niels Birthday so I took him to Cannon Beach on Saturday. He has never been there and always talked about how he wanted to go take pictures there.

I can't believe how many people where on the beach. Yes it was 104 degrees in Vancouver so I'm sure everyone thought, Lets go to the Beach, We first went down right near Haystack rock. I was getting worried cause it was a little foggy. The picture taking wasn't very good at this spot.

But then we decided to go to Ecola State Park. Which was a wonderful idea. The view was incredible and the flog was behind the rock so you could see it perfectly. We hiked on this cool trail down to the beach then took hundreds of pictures, and thats no joke. The sad part was there wasn't a sunset because of the marine layer of clouds.
After picture taking time we went and had a picnic and then we watch Goonies, a very appropriate movie for the setting .

That ended a really great day.

AMAZING!

Just in case y'all didn't know I have the most amazing best friend. This past week Kami was listening to the radio and heard..."Call now to win back stage passes to Gavin Rossdale.", Now y'all need to know. First Gavin is the lead singer of Bush, which was Kami's first concert and first celebrity's crush that has never gone away. So Kami called and it started to ring, then the girl answered and said. If you were to interview Gavin what question would you ask. Kamis response was, " Being married to another rock start, Gwen Stefani, do the two of you ever talk about your work when composing music or do you keep to yourself? Now that question just won her two tickets.

I was at work and just happened to go check my phone to see I had a message, Kami was so excited it was at if she was 12 and just won Hannah Montana tickets. I could hardly understand what she was saying.

When I got home she told me the whole story and I found out the concert was in Seattle on Thrus. It was meant to be cause randomly I didn't have to work that day.

So we left around 4 got there at 8 due to traffic. We met up with our contact, Steve who was with his album. Then the time came when we got to meet him. As we were walking up and first saw him all we were thinking of is how dang cute he is.

So we got to wait in line to go up and meet him and take pics. Kami got out her camera and turned it on only to discover the batteries were out. We almost died! What were we to do? We could not believe this happened. So we then asked the ladies next to us if their camera took AA and they were kind enough to let us use some.

It was then our turn and we didn't even know what to say. He's famous and beautiful what are we suppose to say. But we introduced ourselves and then Kami asked her question. In response Gavin said, that they usually just work alone but sometimes over breakfast will talk about it. He is very nice which made us happy. Specially for Kami to know she crush isn't a jerk.

And that was that. We then went down to the concert. The whole thing was sponsored my Samsung so it was small only about 1,000 people. The venue was standing only, we were only about 10 people from the stage.

The concert its self was amazing. Ya know just give me live music and I'll have fun. He sang about 5 Bush songs which was fun. After the concert we got back in the car and drove back to Vancouver.

This was perfect practice for the day Kami and I will meet U2, we know what to expect and will prepare to talk more. Now I know most of you are thinking whatever Annie, you are never going to meet Bono. But you have to realize Kami and I have now both met our #2, her with Gavin and me when I met Harry Connick. So now we get to move up to #1. Yes, this might mean we have to go to Africa to do so. But we're willing to travel.

Thanks Kami we're the Best!