Super fun times!

Just a warning…this is going to be long so I hope you have a few minutes.

Well, when Jake left I thought I was going to be in for 2 weeks of sitting at home or at the beach by myself and counting the days till Jake gets back. I am still counting the days till he gets back but I’m definitely not alone. Last Thursday at bible study I met a girl named Ashley there and we talked for a while. By the time we were leaving she had invited me to go on a hiking trip for Saturday with all of her friends. That sounded like fun so I gave her my number.

Saturday morning came and when she called she said that no one wanted to go hiking anymore so they were doing a beach day instead. I was already at Kam III when she called and the plan was to head to Big Beach so she said they would stop by and pick me up since it was right on the way. When her and her 2 roommates, Bret & Nick got there I jumped in the back of their truck and we were off. We met up with a few others down there and spent the entire day down there. Ashley and I and another girl I met named Katrina (Kat) all took a walk down to the end to see if there were any tide pools in the rocks but there weren’t. I really wanted to boogie board but the waves were ridiculously big so I chickened out. We stayed there and watched the sunset. It was so amazingly beautiful. Saturday night we all went out to a bar to people watch. Man, there are some strange people here. We planned to try the hiking idea again on Sunday so we got up early so we could go to the early church service which is at 8am.

Sunday morning started out just as we planned. I stopped by her place on the way to church so we could ride together and we went to church. We were both running on very little sleep so we kept nudging each other every once in a while to make sure the other was still awake. After church we went back to her place to see if the guys were up yet. (Apparently they hadn’t gone home when we did. They went down to the beach till about 4am) They were still sleeping so her and I and one of her neighbors, Eugene, (I had met him on Saturday at the beach) walked down to Kihei Cafe for breakfast. By this time we had all simultaneously backed out on hiking since we were all so tired from the night before. Eugene said that at the end of this uphill 3 hour hike is a 55 ft cliff you have to jump off of into the water. If you know me at all you know I am a wimp so I am extremely glad we didn’t end up doing that. So what else is there to do on Maui on a nice Sunday morning…GO TO THE BEACH!! Eugene was going to meet up with us later and when we got back to Ashley’s place the guys were still sleeping so her and I headed down to Big Beach again with the plan of them coming when they got up. The last couple of days there had been a dark cloud just sitting right on top of the beach so we didn’t stay long. We decided to leave when it started to sprinkle on us. We ended up going to a beach that is on the north end of Kam I called Charles something. It was a pretty nice beach and it is in Kihei (where the sun always shines). That is where we spent the majority of the day. They all planned on going to an Irish Pub that night so we didn’t end up staying for the sunset. The band that was playing at that place was done at 10pm so a bunch of us went back to Ashley’s and hung out for a while. We had gone back to my place at some point and dropped off my car so Ashley was going to take me home. We all were chatting so much we didn’t realize how late it got so she pulled out the hide-a-bed in the living room and I slept there. She drove me home in the morning with enough time for me to get ready for work.

Yesterday (Monday) during the day I worked so there isn’t much to tell about. Last night though they all went out to a night club. Nick was telling me that this place is a good place to go watch weird people. Man was he right!! There was a hippie guy there that was dancing like he had no control over his body. He had his shirt unbuttoned and while he was dancing it kept coming off one shoulder. He didn’t care though…he just kept on dancing. There was this old guy there that Ashley and Amanda both told me is always asking all the women to dance. It was kind of sad though because as we were watching them there were women that turned him down. Toward the end of the night Ashley decided she was going to go ask him to dance. It was so cute. They were dancing and chatting. It was so much fun!!

Tonight it’s Taco Tuesday at Fred’s Mexican Restaurant just down the street from my place. They serve $2 tacos and $2 margaritas every Tuesday there. So I’m thinking maybe a little sunset at Kam 3 then walk over to Fred’s for some tacos.

It is so unbelievable!! Since Saturday I have met so many amazing people! Everybody I have met is so nice it really feels like we have all been friends forever! I just can’t wait for Jake to get back so he can meet everybody. The last couple days have been hard on me though. I’m used to getting a lot more sleep then I have been. We are all just having so much fun though I don’t want the nights to end.