Laie Falls

So Saturday morning Nichole, D.J. and I decided to hike up to Laie falls. Its about a two hour hike up behind the temple and i've actually hiked it before but little did we know, it would become the best Saturday ever. Here are some pictures to show you how the hike was. Some of the pictures include the hike, the falls, and some amazing guava we found up by the falls.

 we also acquired a couple of coconuts on the way home and after having our landlord cut one open we realized it was a lot smaller than we thought it would be. And we took the guavas home and made DELICIOUS smoothies as we watched Saturday General Conference. Best day ever.

Dog the Cat

Our neighbors found a cute little kitten and brought it to our house to see if it would get rid of the mice.. Instead we just fell in love with her for the night. Unfortunately she was put outside in the middle of the night because she pooped in the hallway but she was fun for the few ours we had her. We named her dog because she had a short tail and would wag it like a dog before we fed her some turkey. Hopefully we'll see Dog again soon. here's a picture of her and I :)

first week back!

So got my house and moved in sunday night to my amazing adorable house. The living room is wonderful, the bathroom is perfect, and the bedroom is just splendid. The only flaw is that we have a small mouse and cockroach problem..but who doesn't in Laie?

here's a picture of my house. I live in the bottom floor right behind the stairs on the right side. Landlord and her family live upstairs and other girls live on the left side including my friends Molly and Jess :) Glad to know I have great neighbors! Bottom picture is my bedroom. (sorry its a bad picture, i took it from the top bunk of my bed with my phone haha.)

So Nichole and I went to Hukilau beach the next day and brought our snorkle gear and not only did we see/swim with one turtle..but 3 others as well!!! These turtles were very shy so you had to have a quick eye if you wanted to see their heads pop up but we swam near them and some fish around the reef for a good few hours. Then the water got really murky and we were scared of jelly fish and the reef attacking us so we rested on the beach while we watched the sea turtles swim just a few feet from shore. So cool. unfortunately we both forgot our cameras so no pictures...but next time we will!!

My first Cane spider adventure happened in the Ceramics building while Nichole and I were waiting for our Ceramics class to start.. This is not a picture of the cane spider we saw but this gives you an idea. This spider was as big as a softball and was running across the wall and ceiling.. and it creeped down using its web and crawled under the lockers and we never saw it again... officially terrified to go to ceramics again. maybe i take some raid in my back pack.

So i already mentioned our mouse/roach problem so in order to kill them we set up some poison traps.. today we found that they didn't work because we caught a gecko instead.. very very sad we killed the gecko..because guess what geckos eat? roaches..

My first post on a blog!

ALOHA!! Sooo, i guess i should start a blog since my life has been so exciting the past year or so. Well i have been going to BYUH for a year now and over the summer did an internship at Disney World and worked in the wonderful Animal Kingdom in glorious Dino Land. But currently I am at home getting ready to go to utah for a week or so and then go back to school in beautiful Hawaii. I will be living with Nichole Henderson and I am SOOOOOOOOO excited! Also my good friends Molly and Jessica will be living literally right next door so thats even more exciting. I heard our ward is amazing and our house is awesome. Thats all i got to say for today but i should start actually writing when i get there and start having adventures. :)
                              -Jaime <3