for the convenience of the non-existent audience who is reading this, i am posting my hand-written diary of my excursion to the hawaiian islands on here. entries might be posted anywhere from ten to five weeks late, so... make a note of it.

9/30/03
6 something am
day 1 (technically day two, but a recording of the activities from the day before)

i didn't write yesterday because after all the day's activities, i was thoroughly exhausted. anyway, we made it here and it is absolutely incredible. it was magical from the very beginning as we took our SPACE THEMED LIMO to the airport where we booked FIRST CLASS FLIGHTS. getting through airport security wasn't the nightmare i imagined it being and, despite my worst and most certain fears, i was not stripped of all civil liberties and taken to some room to be interrogated about my supposed involvement with terrorsm. yay. so the flight was a cushy and pampered five hours and i consumed a delightful chicken dish along with all the food leftover from the family. glancing out the window of the plane, i realized... the ocean is big. huge, even. i don't think one realizes it until they spend a pretty decent chunk of the day flying over a massive plate of blue. amazing. but we made it alive and in a flurry of events we were getting on a flight to kaua'i three hours before when we were scheduled.

as we drove around in our gray ford explorer, i was lookin' outside and was all, "hey! this looks like... a place". that was until we went through this crazy dimensional portal and started driving down twisty roads the width of my pinky through towering vegetation (most of which looked like it could eat me). only without the portal. kaua'i is truly something incredible and every little thing is bloated with such amounts of beauty that it makes you fall to your knees and weep.

the house we're staying in is roomy and has all luxuries, including a HU-FUCKING-MONGOUS tv and sound system. i think that fairly soon the entire island will hear "my anus is bleeding" as if it were playing in the room next to them. hooray!

behind the house, there is this little pathway that leads to the beach. i walked up it and suddenly this flash of bright yellow-orange appeared. it was the sand. the cleanest, most spectacular sand ever. it looks like toasted sesame seeds. my feet sank about six inches every step into the stuff, until it insantly becomes finer (on some parts of the beach) and literally feels like velvet underneath your feet. the water is this wonderful green-blue gemstone color and it is warm, boy howdy. lots of little tidepools with fishes and crabs scatter the place. i walked pretty far down the beach, finding a sand bar and a multitude of interesting looking dead coral and shells. everything looks like it's from another planet out here.

my hand is starting to hurt since i was planning to put all of this in my online journal, but dad forgot aol so there be no internet for us! i met a woman from santa barbara too and there are crazy bugs all over the place. apparently, geckos come out at night so i'll have to see about that. i believe we are going snorkeling today, too.

mahalo (the word i heard about a thousand times yesterday)
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