Category Archives: hawaii

night out in waikiki.

for scottee’s last night on the island we had a night out on the town in waikiki.  first stop: rum fire, a really fun resort lounge that has live music and an ocean view.  we both had mojitos — passion fruit for me, mango for scots — and they were sooooo good.  like so good.   definitely want to make a trip back there asap.  then we got dinner.  scottee had watched food wars earlier in the day while i was at work and it had her craving a burger.  so next stop was cheeseburger in paradise.  that was super good too.  then we walked around and got starbucks (for the 20th time during her trip).  and pretended we were tourists by taking millions of pictures.  my specialty.

cousin time.

scottee and i had such a fun time during her visit.  she left super early this morning back to santa barbara and i am sad to have to get back to reality.  we did a lot of eating, beaching, movie-watching, talking, laughing, and coffee-drinking.  i love love love time with my cuz.  miss ya already, scooter!

miss chinatown.

this past saturday night i spent in chinatown at the hawaii theater (how cute and old-fashioned is it?!)  to watch my old roomie nicky compete in the miss chinatown pageant.  it was fun getting dressed up, going to the theater, waving signs of her face, and screaming insanely loud for her along with the rest of her humongous cheering section.  and she kinda rocked it.  cause she WON.  she gets to go to miss hawaii this year!  she looked gorgeous and did a beautifullll job strutting her stuff up on that stage.  so proud of you, nick!!

pictures from the [best] weekend [ever].

this weekend was probably one of the best weekends i’ve had since moving here two years ago.  seriously, it was that good.  we spent lots of quality time with great friends eating great food…and you really can’t go wrong with that combo.  we ate at a fun japanese restaurant + yogurtland on friday night, a reggae concert + more froyo on saturday night, went to an an awesome church service on sunday, beached it all afternoon, and ended the weekend with a barbeque at a friend’s house sunday night on the north shore.  our friend brett is an amazing cook and he cooked up a delicious feast: lamb skewers, coffee-rubbed steak, bbqed chicken, rice, potatoes, and salad.  hellooooo goodness.  i really wish i could just press the repeat button every weekend from now on.

it’s a BIG day today.

[@ his White Coat Ceremony in June 2009]

today is a BIG BIG BIG day.  Reis is taking his board exams.  this test is the test of all tests for med students.  it’s an EIGHT-hour (!) extravaganza that they take at the end of their second year and it basically determines the rest of their future — where they will get into for residency and what kind of doctor they will become — no big deal.  the guy has been studying his butt off for the past two and a half months and after today, he can finally breathe again!  i am soo soooo incredibly proud of him.  

(and hey, after this test, he will only have about SEVEN (7!!) years of school/residency left and oh, about $200K worth of debt to pay off!)  yeeee haw.  let the fun begin!

today is also a BIG day because my best friend Heather is giving birth to Logan!!!  remember when I was in CA and threw her a baby shower??  well today the little guy will finallyyyy make his entrance into the world and i could not be more excited!!  i love him so much already and cannot wait to hold him and meet him in person!

so please, pretty please,  PRAY PRAY PRAY for both of them today!!!

i’m off to go bring reis some coffee and breakfast before his test!

miss hawaii.

Friday afternoon I get an email from my roommate Jess.  She wants to know if our other roommate Nicky and I want to go to the Miss Hawaii show/pageant (idk what they are technically called??) because her mom has free tickets for the VIP tables.  Umm, let me think about this:

A reason to dress up (and wear my favorite black dress from Ross…that I got for $4.99!!!),
hang out with my roomies,
see my friend Lauren compete in the pageant,
and get free drinks, food, and dessert??
YES PLEASE.  Sign me up.
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So Saturday night the three of us got all fancy shmancy and went to the show.  And guess what?  My friend who was in the pageant?  Yeah, she WON.  She is the NEW Miss Hawaii 2011.  That’s kind of a big deal.  Congratulations Lauren!!!!
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