I FINALLY ARRIVED!!

ALOHA my family and friends....sorry it took me a good while to get this thing up and running, but here's a tentative lay-out!

Anywho, I arrived on 9/20 at around 11:30am local time and got picked up by Mark (Darren's brother). This is the Ham and Cheese sandwich I got on the plane, they also showed X-Men First Class. Once I landed, Mark was very very nice enough to drive me around town during his lunch break. We first stopped off at popo's nephews, Kirk (so my 2nd cousins') because I have to pick up the keys to the car. I talked to him and he's SUPER cool, very chill and super local. He then goes and keeps talking to me about him having a electric scooter, so we go and pick it up from his place and he lets me borrow it! Super nice! After that, Mark drives me out to my place which is really nice all the way out in Kailua. (Kailua is considered "far" to the people in town, but in reality it's only like a 30 min drive). I am located in pretty central town, walking distance to markets, fast food and macy's, BOOTS and Kimos!! We then ate at FATBOYS and I had garlic chicken with rice, Mark got beef stew bento. That was a good first meal for sure.

After, Mark dropped off my things and we looked around (it's pretty much moving into an empty apartment), he then had to go back to work, so I basically took a shower right when I got here, and then started to put the vacuum together. Just trying to settle on in, so I was basically working til it got kind of dark when I put the lights on and look on my bed. The bed is covered in lil' sugar ANTS O.o I was like "great"....So I call Mark, cuz we were going to go eat dinner later and asked if I could go over there earlier and wash my sheets. He then picks me up around 5:30 and i head out to his place in Hawaii kai. I start my load and then meet his GF Gina! She's super nice and super chill. As we wait to put my clothes in the dryer and wait for Devin to call us, we quickly Skyped Court. We then go to Kona Brewing Company restaurant and meet Dev there. It was a nice place, right by the water. The food was just okay though, it's probably more for the atmosphere. Anyways, I get fish tacos but start to get really really sleepy while at the table. I try to stay up though, so I can get adjusted to the small time change. After dinner we go get Mochi ice-cream...I forgot what the place was called but we had li-hing mango....BOMB. After, which was around 10-11pm, Dev drives me back home. He helps me put on my new clean sheets and then asks if I want to stay at his place, cuz' I was there by myself. It was kind of sad, no internet and an empty townhouse...haha, but I said "No" I gotta get used to this. It was hard to fall asleep though, def wished I had someone staying with me!

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Here's a semi tour of the townhouse, as you can see it's pretty empty but totally works fine. :) Plus, I know that I have a lot of places to crash at in town.