It Even Rains in Hawaii

On our third day in Hawaii, we let ourselves sleep in. We had breakfast on our lanai listening to live Hawaiian music, and hit the beach only to be poured on! It was set in for the whole day. We made our way to the North Shore, where we used to live, and where we planned to meet our friends (neighbors from years ago) for lunch. So much to see and reminisce on our drive. And beautiful amidst all the rain and the flooding up on North Shore! After a long winter, everything seemed so immensely green and lush to us.

This is where I had my wisdom teeth pulled!

The grocery store we used to drive to in Kaneohe, because the one in our town was too pricy for poor college students. That is, until we sold our car to buy a stroller and car seat and then used that to get our groceries in!
The old hygienic store. I've never actually been in it, but it looks so familiar on its corner, and I've always loved its orange colour.


Ku'aloa mountain range... I don't know how many times we have driven by these gorgeous mountains. It felt like coming home.

Chinaman's Hat. Years ago when Mr. Man and I were engaged and I visited him here, we were driving back up to North Shore and there was a motorcycle accident and the road was blocked. We drove back here and, needless to say, we made some memories making out hanging out for hours until the roadblock cleared.We finally made it to Laie, our old stomping grounds which were completely flooded!

We took pictures of all the normal things in our lives that we never thought to take picture of before. Here's Hale 6, where Mr. Man lived his freshman year at BYU-Hawaii.
Where he worked:
The health center, where I first went when I was pregnant and where Miss J had her first doctor:
Good old TVA:
Where I was pregnant and had Miss J (our neighbors we met up with lived right above us and we had our first babies just weeks apart!)
We moved to R building when I went psychotic, it was nicer (as nice as TVA can get) and had a yard and playground area for little Miss J (shared by all, but right outside our front door).
Miss J's first playground and the laundromat where I had some of my favourite clothing stolen (still bitter!)
The Laie, Hawaii LDS temple where we used to walk the grounds daily. (I have better pictures, but you can see how gray and rainy it was here!)

Our neighbor's two daughters they had when we lived here (such cute little girls!)
And their two little boys, who were enjoying the flooding a little too much:
(my boys would have fit right in with them!)

We had lunch at the BYUH cafeteria, which has not changed since 1996!!!
Then off to our friends' home to laugh, and talk for hours on end!!! (And get dry!)