Aaron got here

Aaron arrived on saturday, and was very relieved to be here. due to the airlines fault he missed his connection flight out of Las Vegas, unfortunately Aaron hates las vegas. but all is well now. we spent the weekend half exploring and half trying to show the town. on Sunday we went to Kona for what we thought was a nice beach, turned out the sand quickly became large really slippery stones. but we had a good time exploring anyway.

the church we have been attending seems like a good place, we hope to meet people and hopefully make connections and friendships. on thanksgiving we are planning on going to a gathering with the church community, i'm exited about that.

Steph hasn't heard anything from the hospital yet, but we keep our fingers crossed. at wallyworld we are getting Christmas trees in today, something like 5 semi trailers full (with like one thousand plus or so trees each) then once they have arrived we have to empty all of them to attain a accurate number.

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Birds and Lizards and Cops oh my!

These birds are in an over abundance out side of our house, there beutiful and kinda remind me of African finches i've seen.
That was the only non camera shy lizard I could catch out side of the house. He settled down enough for a close up.
Yup thats what the police look like, Mustangs or Honda pilots mainly. they definitely look more aggressive than the old crown victorias of years ago.

things are still quite bumpy, there seem to be allot of discouraging circumstances, but we are trying to look at the good things. It seems things just keep getting worse, for instance after supper at the mall we returned to our subaru to find some one decided to smash out our window. This whole experience has definitely shown us how good we have had it in Lansing. i guess there are always these setbacks when moving far away but it definitely gets tiring.

The good, The bad, The ugly, Hawaii

this is a view from up the main street we live off of, beautiful no?

Rainy Friday

(our front yard from the porch)
Hello all, time sure is flying over here its been a week or so over a month, and i think were doing pretty good. Steph's interview went well and they seemed to be impressed with her knowledge and education so with all hope she will get a call pretty soon. Walmarts still Walmart and i can't wait for next week to be over so we cam move on past Halloween. We found out earlier this week our Jeep probably needs a new head gasket, so it looks like we will have to save up for that, but thankfully the Subaru has been working fine so far.
the house is definitely growing on us, it interesting to look back at our first thoughts (that this house is kinda dumpy) now its starting to feel more comfortable and more like home. steph was able to pick up some cheep peiced of furniture so its not so empty.
the weather is usualy in the low to high 70's during the day and at nigh it gets pretty chilly probably in the 40-50's (i know our chilly is nothing like Michigan's)
thank you for reading

Horay Hilohouse's first video post

Now don't get too exited this video was shot by me (zane) and for anyone who saw stephanies homecoming video you'll know that i'm not that great of a shot, but anyway here it is this the main water fall at the boiling pots (im not sure what the name comes from) but here it is.....



All is going well, the new news is Stephanie has a second interview with the hospital, in two weeks i'll be starting full time at walmart (although yes thats a funny use of "good".) We finally got our jeep here is a picture of bolth the jeep and Subaru our two baby's.


In other news we have found a new favorite tv show, its called Sassy Girl, probably the best and only Korean tv shown we've watched but be warned its addicting. hopefully more good news and furniture (as all we have now is a matress)
but please remember to pray for Steph and her interview monday at 6:30 michigander time.

and how i'll leave you with a picture of the long road home from the west side.

new place new car

This is it our new place! its not nessasarily the Conrad Hilton but its a good start. the inside is pretty bleak, allot of questionable construction/design elements but what can you expect. On the inside are 2 bedrooms, one bath, kichen, living room. out the side door we have a small patio or "lani" connected to a washing machine room and a second bath (i'm not sure why they put a bathroom outside but oh well.)
we also purchased our first car, a 1993 Subaru outback. nice cheap zane/aarin car. it has 250k miles and revers doesn't work, but oh well for $500 it drives just fine.

another nice waterfall of the road.

Yum yum, anyone for a snack made up of dried anchovies and macadamia chips

or if thats not filling enough maybe some dried cuttlefish?

Adress: (good for letters)
421 inia ln.
Hilo, HI 96720

(better for packages hint hint)
P.O. Box 7695
Hilo, HI 96720

shockeroony

-rare clear skys

-WALMART!!!!

-Wonderful night sky on a long walk home

-good photo effect eh?

-this is what it looks like when you go from 300,00 to 25,000 dollars, definitely an accurate reaction. (from "are you smarter than a fifth grader")

Good news every body, on monday we are going to be visiting a 2 bedroom house. steph started at Longs Drugs so far she has only been reading reading reading, but happy to have a job.
so far so good
from hilo,
zane

Big in little moderation

Time for another big pic post! these are pictures form our journey from hilo to kona and to north kohala.

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two beach shots in Kona, the first is steph and i's first sea turtle we ever saw, second is a surfer dude


this is lava tunnel, hot lava would moved through these spaces but when the lava dries or is plugged it leaves a nice "cave" to explore

various pictures from various parks/ waterfalls
special notes: we found a fancy native head piece, doesn't it look great on steph? There are free range roosters here and there, not sure what the legality of taking a chicken would be. also it seems the islands faith in duct tape far excised my own this hand rail was next to about a 600 ft drop.

COWS!! lots-o-cows!

Some wonderful picture from the drive home, the views are amaizing

Other news, stephanie has an interview with the hospital tomorrow, i start my first day in the garden department. we were accepted by one of the realty agents, which is very good news (means we will be able to rent from them.) lookin up definataly up