Thank you all for your prayers, first of all. We appreciate it very much. The flight was LONG. I want to quickly say "never again" . . . but well, never say never.
Secondly, YES this place is paradise. As much as you can attribute our tiny minds around the actual meaning of the word. But, y'all know what I mean. It's beautiful.
Third, we are tuckered. I mean: dog tired. As our sponsor said, I would be wide awake at three am . . . and I was. Crazy! But, I am trudging along until about 9pm tonight so I can get this body synchronized. I can't be walking around in paradise with my head in a fog. I could drown or get lost in a tropical forest.
Just kidding.
Pictures soon. We FedEx'd two boxes, one of which has my cord for the camera to upload . . . and the disc thingy. I have to figure out if I even need that disc thingy (most likely) to do any of that stuff. But, the pictures we have so far are gorgeous. Of course.
I have loads of shopping opportunities . . . my rein myself in. NOW.
Time to run off to see Hols, who is staying with our sponsor. We have really been blessed . . . a loving home and family on one end (thank you!!) and a loving lady with other pets who is willing to keep Hols for us this end. How did she handle the flight? She was in our two planes in the luggage hold. When she was being released from the HI Agriculture Dept., we could hear her barking and scratching at the door of her kennel in the back . . . it took about an hour to get her outta there (after we disembarked the plane) so it was not bad at all. I will say, before you bring you animal here: contact the HI agricultural Dept. to prepare your paperwork and mail it to them etc. beforehand. We are just lucky I had her health certificate and the two original copies of her rabies. Geesh. I was panicked for a minute there thinking we really screwed up. We were told to have exact paperwork - I complied to the letter on that. Thank God I did. It was only suggested we contact the HI Agricultural Dept. Um, it should be a requirement . . . not a suggestion. If you do that, you can be in and out of that office very quickly.
But, we're all together. That's the best thing.
We are on a 1-3 month waiting list for the housing we want (specific spot in Pearl City area) . . . trying to figure out where to live until then. Hope it's only one month!
Many blessings and thank you for the prayers and well wishes!
"J" - I be calling you every day until we get to chat. Thank you for all you have done to help us get here. My hat is off to you and B & B!! We are truly blessed with real life friends as well.
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12 comments:
Whoo hoo! We're still here in Herndon, VA!
God bless!
Alexa
If you do not have - get SKYPE for calling! Lots of $savings...of course getting used to time differences is the bigger issue! Glad you all made it safely. How long was the flight?
In Christ,
(only commented once or twice before - long time reader)
elizabethk
Now that you're there, you should get together with Esther (hicatholicmom.blogspot.com)A Catholic Mom in Hawaii) and with Easter (atributetoourpriests.blogspot.com).
Yahoo!!! So glad you made it safely, you've all been on my mind these past couple days!
Can't wait to see pictures, sounds beautiful, just beautiful!
Glad that you made it okay! Prayers for quick housing for ya'll!
Miss you.
Yay, you made it! Glad you are safe and sound. Hope you find housing very soon. In the meantime...soak up the sun! Can't wait to see some of those gorgeous pics. That will be the only Hawaii I will ever get to see :)
Yea! You're there! So glad. We're looking forward to the pictures!
So glad you, the family, and Hols have arrived in your new home safely!! Praise God!!
Looking forward to those photos...praying you get that house within the month, too. {{{{hugs}}}}
Sarah!!! Yay! Glad you are all "home" together ..safe and sound.
Just soak it all in for us and we'll enjoy the photos when you have them up. How wonderful, girl! :)
Happy that you're there, safe and sound.
Glad to hear that you're safely upon solid island. Mrs LarryD and I honeymooned in Hawaii 19 years ago. It IS paradise!
And don't go picking up any tiki idols. They might be cursed!! (Brady Bunch reference)
God bless you, too, Alexa.
Elizabeth - Let's see. We left BWI (Balt/Wa) at about 9am EST and landed in Honolulu about 3pm whatever time zone we call this one . . . so about twelve hours of travel? Something like that. About an hour stop over in Denver. Not too bad, but it is a long way to go in a day.
Father - I will try to make contact with both of them once we are a bit more settled. Thanks for the tip!
Jamie - pics will be coming soon; pray my husband lets me upload the camera stuff so I can share sooner than later. He's weird about the laptop. It's his new baby, you see.
Dawn - thanks for the prayers!
Brandie - well, you never know. I certainly never saw HI in my future even as a remote possibility. :)
Rosemary and Jenny - pics soon, I hope.
Suz - I'm soakin'!! ha ha ha
Kalona - thank you. thank you. mahalo.
Larry D - funny you should mention that. They are everywhere. I don't personally like them. I like the flowers and the turtles stuff. :) I remember that episode well. Thanks for making me laugh.
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