Crime scene? Nope… just a desperate girl trying to recover
precious commodity.
Cost of Living has not been as expensive as I thought it probably would be here in Hawaii; however, my dumb mistakes have MORE than made up for the expected added expense. First, my cell phone ticket….Now being so mesmerized by a sea turtle that I did not notice a wave crashing high on the shore drenching my towel, book, and SADLY my PHONE!! Not stopping to put on a cover-up or shoes , I dash upstairs to see if I can salvage my phone. In all honesty, I am not thrilled with my phone, but at this moment I love it because it represents me not having to go and purchase another phone that I really had NO need for before today. Upstairs, I am frantically blow drying the excess water off and getting ready to put all the pieces into rice (which thankfully I have on hand, thanks to my over packing of food.) I pull the sim card out and it flings across the foyer into the sliding door crevice that is now home to my sim card, 20 years of dust bunnies, and who knows what kind of insects. “Uhmm, “ I think to myself. “It cannot be that hard to get a sim card out of this crevice. If it went in there has to be a way out.” I then start scouring the condo for something long and skinny to assist me in my search and rescue of the sim card. A mop handle is too thick. Some long pulls of too much extra pieces on the end to serve the purpose of recovering the sim card. Finally, I decided on some bungee cords. For the first 10 minutes, I successfully pushed the sim card farther back and under the door. Grabbing a hanger, I started dragging it with a hanger. Success it is working. Finally, it is within my reach, but it sandwiched in between the sliding door and the floor. So close and yet another set back. “ What can I use to free this sim card?” AH HA, I’ll use my tweezers. I grabbed my tweezers and pinched the sim card with them and pulled it free.
Maybe God is teaching me that I have an unhealthy attachment to my phone!
It has been FUN FUN FUN to have mom with me in Hawaii. Yesterday we went snorkeling, on a farm tour, and to the north shore.
One of my all time favorite movies is Gidget. I watch it every summer. Right before coming to Hawaii, I watched Gidget Goes Hawaiian.
Anyway, on our snorkeling adventure, I felt like Gidget at the beginning of the first movie when she went on a “man hunt” dressed in snorkeling gear…. I had the 60’s style bathing suit, the ridiculous looking snorkel gear….all I needed was a Moondoggie to come rescue me! In all seriousness, getting ready for snorkeling was very comical and actually snorkeling was amazing! We had the opportunity to see lots of fish and mom even saw a sea turtle.
After snorkeling we went to the Macadamia Nut Farm for a tour of the farm. We got to see where a lot of movies and television shows were filmed including: Gilligan’s Islands, Jurassic Park , 50 First Dates,
Fantasy Island,
and You, Me, and Dupree.
During our tour with our hilarious tour guides , a chicken was mere inches away from my back when I was sitting down. At the same time, there was about 4 or 5 about a foot in front of me trying to eat the coconut (who knew chickens ate coconut?)
I was nervous as a cat and wanted to jump up and run away. Thankfully, the tour guide could see my fear and threw the coconut in the opposite direction to get them away from me!
I survived!! Contrary to my irrational fear, the chickens are not out to get me;
today they wanted the other cocoNUTS!
Love to everyone back home! Less than two weeks until I will be back in Douglasville readjusting to heat and humidity!
