stephanie left me.....

But first things first, Here are a few photos from our adventures


Thanksgiving morning we decided to go for a walk,


to were else but the abandoned neighborhood! this is about a 2 block section of the town that basically was abandoned a few years back. Needless to say i saw allot of great fixer uppers.


Ah yes, Hilo and there love for letting things sit around, here is a smashed car thats been there for a few weeks now. From further investigation it looks like no one was inside at the time of the crash.


Some of the nice alleys and foliage, the last picture is a banana plant.


Yesterday (monday) we found an area with allot of neat lava forms. The spikes in the first photo were actually sharp and pretty sturdy.


Before we left a lava tunnel Aaron and I built an Ebenezer. and made a special message for our friend Steve Loomis, coral graffiti is all over the place on the sides of the coastal highway.

Well as i said Stephanie left this morning, got on a plane and headed for Honolulu for her Longs Training session. She just called me to say she made it there safely, If i understood correctly there will be around a 4 hour training session and then around 5 she will be flying back to Hilo. It'l be a fun time i think, in any case its a free flight to a new island. Back home i get to go to work at 11, so needless to day i'm kinda jealous. keep us in your prayers expecialy that Aaron will be able to find a job. Thanks again for reading......

Turkey

its definitely starting to get colder here at nights, steph gets too cold but i feel just about right. Stephanie received a letter from the hospital that said no thanks its a bit discouraging because i know she was well qualified for the position, but oh well it may be for the best.

we have been invited to a family's house for thanksgiving, i think it will be a good chance to meet more of the church and hopefully at least some great food.

we talked to the auto dealership again but he seems pretty content in letting us foot the bill, so i'm not sure about whats going to happen with that. we definitely are going to file a complaint with the better business bureau but i know that won't really do much good.

So to all our familys and friend happy thanksgiving, We love you and miss you
zane&steph

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