Aloha

Aloha!! We are having a great time in Hawaii. We have been here for a little over a month and are finally getting into the swing of things. Maui is in its slow season which means all the restaurants are less busy and everyone just gets fewer hours. We hear that it starts to pick up near halloween (which is called the Mardi Gras of the pacific) so we are looking forward to that day. We usually work at night so it gives us the whole entire morning to go to the beach and read our books enjoying the sun. As my wise uncle says "we are brown as bears!!". We have our favorite beaches but we are expanding our horizon and trying new ones.

Recently we went harvesting in our backyard. We have two huge mango trees, a lemon-line tree (we don't know which one it actually is and the whole family is split so we decided it had to be both), two banana trees, and a grapefruit tree. We have been picking mangos regularly, but then we did our big harvest. We picked 9 grapefruit and one weighed 6 pounds. These are no ordinary grapefruits. We had a huge bundle of mangos and tons of lemon-limes. The bananas are not quite ripe yet so that will be on the next harvest. But the grapefruits were the most shocking. We placed many on our back fence to see if anyone would take them. And they did!! (I will put of pictures of our harvest in a few days!)

There are many interesting people who live in Hawaii and many of them are very sketchy people. I was walking home from work one night, Darren was already home and I came around the corner of our house and there was a bum sleeping in our walk way in his sleeping bag with his pillow. I quickly turned around in a panic and went to the lights by the store next to our house and called Darren. He came out and told the guy they he had to leave, so after about 15 min the bum packed up his stuff and left. I thought I was safe but then just a few days later he was back. I no longer will go through the front entrance, I head around the back!! Many people have told us how to get the bum to move, but Darren says he will just spray him with the hose. I cannot wait for that day so he wont come back!!

We are having the best time of our lives and still cannot believe we actually live in Hawaii. Aloha!