Aloah, Ala Moana, Mahalo

Look! I learn Hawaiian words!! i'm fantastic!!

Yes! I am in Hawaii! It's exciting and new and... i'm exhausted! The last two days have definitely been interesting. I might as well tell my travel story because it seems that I've already started telling lots of people. Basically we got the MSP airport at 9AM to find out that the flight had been cancelled due to some mechanical issues. So they had to find all 24 of us new flights!! Some ended up on a flight directly to Hawaii, while others were sent to Seattle and LA (the LAers spent the night there!) I was the one that got sent to Vegas, LA, THEN Hawaii. So we waited around the airport until 2:30 and then got to Vegas by like 5 or 6 something... can't really remember. But it was good being there again because I really never thought I'd see Vegas in my life again! but there I was! And it made me think of Zach, Justin, and Kara and I even got to see the strip from the sky! it was exciting (and dont' worry... i took pictures!)
Then our flight from Las Vegas to LA was ridiculous.... the drink cart had just gotten to us, aisle 15, and we started to land! I think we were only in the air for a good 25 minutes. It was a joke of a flight. So we rushed to our terminal in LA to find out that our flight wasn't leaving at 7:55..... it was leaving at 11:15 due to more mechanical issues!!!! Everyone was really stressed out by all of this and I started to get a migraine. I was not a happy camper. Bethel paid for our dinner, and I tried to sleep on the floor in the airport, but nothing helped. Finally I just threw up twice and called it a day. I couldn't keep ANYTHING down. Stupid headache.
Once we boarded the airplane things went better for me. I pretty much conked out for most of the night. I watched half of one more, and blinked my eyes open a few times to see the other, and that was it. I was just exhausted and I needed tat headache to end! Luckily it did by the time we reached Hawaii!

So after all that madness, we ended in this wonderful place and I'm so excited to spend like 24 days here!! It's going to be so great! We spent our first day here sleeping and then hanging out at the mall and beach. It was wonderful. It's very different than Minnesota. The mall is like half indoor and half outdoor, but nothing like Arbor Lakes.... it's weird really. And the weather wasn't humid or anything! it was most like a pure 80 degrees. It was great. And the ocean... oh the ocean..... I LOVE IT!!! :)

I did however shove my hand in my suitcase to unpack, but I apparently left my razor face up so I sliced my finger pretty bad. thank goodness for all my band-aids i brought!

Alright, I can't give my whole entire trip away. I just wanted to let everyone know that i'm here and loving it and I think it'll be some pretty outstanding weeks for all of us! Love you guys and miss you lots!!

Amy