The house so far

The above is BEFORE and the below is AFTER.

The far wall was painted a very light tan. Any boy, I mean man, would not notice the slight color change unless you were to look at a corner and compare it to the sterile white color all the walls were to begin with. The living room has a brown and green theme with wrought iron decor on the walls to accent. The big green couch was split and the two portions are now on opposite sides of the room with the leather couch in the foreground. Yes, I need fake plants otherwise they would be dead soon and there is enough brown in the room.


These are the walls to the right and behind the above pictures. The far wall is also painted tan.

Again, above is before, and below is after.

The wall is kinda like a mint green. I have three picture frames for the bamboo thingy. One is of a very very young Adam and Brent posing as deputies. Definitely worthy of his work buddies make fun of him.
Where Adam can put all the items (from his pockets) he collected while at work. That way I can keep my kitchen counter a kitchen counter.This wall was all kitchen boxes when I arrived. Now it's the dining room/guitar area.

Well here is the new and improved living room. All thanks to Christine with a little help from me. He preped it a lot.

Christine painted the walls too!

And yes those are my guitars, I am starting a one man band. And it helps me keep my sanity from Christine's bouts of decorating!

Volcano

The other day Christine saw on the news that a Volcano on a nearby island erupted. The news said that it erupted once many years ago and has kind of been bubbling over ever since. Well it erupted again recently and filled the sky. The odd part was it still looked better than some of the smog over downtown LA. It also actually made it cooler as it was blocking the sun.

Here you can hardly see the mountains through the clouds (from the volcano).

Honeymoon PHOTOS!

This was taken in front of our hotel. The beach area was fairly empty, not that many tourists were at our beach, I think more people were in the Hilton pool than at our beach.



These two were taken from our balcony. We saw the ocean and sunset to our left and the city to our right.




I took Christine to the aquarium. Thats her touching a sea anenome. It had spikes all over it, then she held a hermit crab.
This was after our climb up Diamondhead crater. We pulled up just to see what it was and the lady at the booth (approx 400lb lady) said you hike up the hill and overlook a huge crater. Christine was obviously not dressed for hiking, and was even wearing some kind of girl shoe like a pump or something. We found out about 100 stairs and zigzags later that that 400lb lady obviously hasn't been up here in a while. An hour later we got to the top and took these photos.

If you look right over Christine's right shoulder you can see a rainbow, it was much more vivid in person.
This was the hike we actually scheduled for that day, so after climbing Diamond head, we got to take a guided hike through the wilderness and visit a waterfall. This is where I got filthy and Christine didn't. Apparently I walk funny.
This is an island called Chinaman hat, because from further away it looks like a Chinese hat. I don't get it either. I think the "others" live there though.
These are frequently asked questions about pineapples. We visited the Dole plantation. It was geared for smaller children, but at least you can see what a pineapple looks like when its growing. Oh and it takes two years for a pineapple to become a pineapple. Thats an awful long time for something no one eats all that often. And its a wonder they are not more expensive.


This is Christine in front of a huge anchor. I just see my ball and chain next to an anchor and chain. Just kidding. Kinda.
These penguins were at the Hilton hotel next door to us.

And this is us on our wonderful dinner cruise, where Christine had whole lobster for the first and last time. It kept looking at her and freaking her out as she crushed its vertebra. Just the tail for her from now on.

Phone Problems

Well if you tried calling yesterday, Guam Phone Co shut off our phone. Its back on now. Their fault, our problem....

Wait a minute Mr. Postman

Just a word on those mailing things to us.

If you ship the cheapest, easiest, fastest way to get things here is by USPS Priority Mail.

If you send it any less than Priority chances are we may never see it, or if we do it will take three months. If its not Priority, it sits waiting to board the plane. All Priority mail bumps non priority mail. So if there is a ton of Priority mail that non priority package gets bumped to the next plane, and so on and so on. I have heard of Xmas gifts being sent non Priority in Nov not arriving till MARCH!

Just an FYI.

We are still sorting things out and unpacking and Christine is decorating like a mad woman! Each day I come home from work and it looks better and better and better.

We will get some honeymoon pics up soon.

A

Hello from Hawai'i

Hello.

We wanted to say a quick thank you for everyone who attended the wedding. We had a wonderful time and we hope all of you did as well.

Just a quick hello from here to say we are having a great time.

We have gone on two hikes (miles and miles, up stairs, cliffs, etc) this picture is from one of them. Notice how my pants are filthy and Christines are not. My story is that I carried her over all the dirty parts. She will probably tell you I just walk funny.

Aloha.