Scott has been in Hawaii for 2 1/2 weeks, and me for about three days.
It is soooo wonderful! Despite searching Craigslist and the BYU-H off campus site for four months we had no place to live when we got out here. There would be an opening and you would call the landlord and they would say, "Well our tenants are actually here until November or December...." We did find two available places- one tiny cottage in the back of someones yard that was about 300 sq feet, and the landlord yelled at us when we tried to send her the $900 deposit, so we exnayed that one. Then we found a beachfront apartment that was only $850 a month but apperantly is referred to as the 'roach motel', that was a no-go too.
THEN- Scott was in the Bay area with some of his family before he flew out here, giving them our sob story about how we will end up in some cardboard 200 sq foot box living with the roaches and having nothing to eat. They feel bad for him and put him on the plane. 12 hours later he calls Nana and his aunts, he has found a beachfront house that has a REAL kitchen (most apartments out here use hotplates and microwaves), laundry, is NOT a studio, HAS A FUTON (which I have been offering up to all friends and family willing to come out here), and is as big as our apartment in Austin! Everyone was astounded. Especially me. He called me on my way back from Lake Powell with the family and I pretty much cried. We are so so blessed. What a relief!
So this update is pretty much to tell everyone how amazing my/our life is. We live in paradise. You can eat dinner on the deck and get your feet splashed by ocean water, you can walk down two houses to a beautiful and vacant beach. There are mountains, rivers, rain, pretty much any natural thing you could last for. Scott wakes me up in the morning to see the sunrise over the ocean out our bedoom window. For the next week until school starts it is our slightly delayed honeymoon, only even better. And when school starts- we are living in paradise anyways. We are sooo happy! Enjoy the pictures!
