Hau'oli makahiki hou!

Happy New Year in Hawaiian.

Hau'oli - Happy

Makahiki - Year

Hou - New

We got our cat home safely. We thought she would be all mad and stuff becuase she gets that way sometimes. But, she is all lovey-dovey.

Whatever. It took forever to get to the Quarantine Office at the airport. First, there weren't any signs, then the guards didn't know what we were talking about, then the lady told us that we picked them up at the cargo office on Aolele Street, then they told us to go back to where we were, then we waited ten minutes, then we went home with our cat.

I have to go. Aloha,

Matt

Arghhh... My cat is coming today from Nashville, but my dog wasn't allowed on the flight. HOPEFULLY, we can take the ca home from the airport. I DO NOT WANT HER QUARANTINED. Hawaii is really strict about importing stuff, if it's harmful to the environment, then it's illegal.

It's funny, because they found a snake on the island. Snakes will eat their native birds, so they are illegal. They found it in a house by Koko Head, east of Honolulu.

BORED. Got to go to Honolulu International in a few minutes, can't occupy myself.

Bye

I am so bored of the NEX mall, I have been there every day since I moved to Hawaii. I am so bored of it I could puke. Anyways, it has been a good week otherwise, except that we can't really do anything because my dad comes home during rush hour, and the interstate is literally a parking lot during rush hour. So, we're pretty bored. Also, we go outsied a lot because of the weather, and we spend so much time in the elevator that it's pretty much ours.

Mele Kalikimaka, (Mery Christmas in Hawaiian)

Matt

Hey, all

im staying in the Navy Lodge a few minutes from 'Aiea (pronounced eye-AY-uh), which is a few miles down the interstate from Honolulu. It is 80 degrees here, and will be the whole three years i am in Hawai'i.

So we had the most boring flight ever:

We woke up at 4:00 in the morning to go to the airport, and my dog was packing her toys in my suitcase. She knows we're going somewhere, and she thinks she's going. We left the house, and got on the interstate for Nashville Airport. We got there, and we sat in the gate to Denver for an hour.

We arrived in Denver in no time. We had an hour and a half to spare. We went to Dominoes to eat lunch, I bought The Client, a Grisham book, and then roamed the largest airport in the world. When we boarded the plane, it took five minutes to take off, because the runway was so freakin' long. Then we were in the air for 7 hours and 6 minutes. We played "Halfway to Hawai'i" and filled out paperwork, paperwork required to be done by the state of Hawai'i. They are into the save the Hawaiian Environment thing, so they don't want you to bring crap in. We watched the Polar Express, which was the worst movie of all time, and then finally landed after 3 forevers.

We drove around, with my dad (we felt like hicks, since we still had our Rutherford County Tennessee plates on), and found out that the radio stations suck. We ate at the NEX mall food court (NEX is the Navy Exchange).

Then at 11:00 PM we went to Honolulu Airport to ge tmy mom, who had originally been scheduled to fly in at 8:30, but she missed her flight at LAX, because her Nashville to Chicago was late, and her Chicago to LAX was delayed. Yeah, it was fun.

TTYL

Matt