Sunday, February 28, 2010

Tropical Rain!


It's tropical rain for us today. It feels really refreshing. The locals told us that the big island is in a drought season right now, so it's usually greener than it is now. No one has sprinklers here, the lawns are just green from the rain. At night we hear all the tropical birds singing and our neighborhood is bordering a jungle. Hahahaha!

We had a really yummy mango today, and we haven't gone to farmer's market yet but we want to check it out soon....I made fried tofu with broccoli, steamed brown rice & cucumber with lemon.

We can hardly wait till our car gets here! Tomorrow we are going to the bank to add my name to the Bank of Hawaii account Jer opened up a few days ago. I'm so glad because there's no Bank of America here. Well there is but it's in Kona, which is on the other side of the island.

We like living here so far, we just miss our all of our peeps, which is natural. Baby Jeremiah is wiggling more & more each day! He's especially happy when I eat:)

Since we've been here we've been walking quite a bit, which is great for me & baby. I think that the lifestyle here is definitely more laid back.

Last night we went on an early evening walk and there were people chilling outside with family & friends, having a barbecue. It was really cozy to see. There are plumeria trees everywhere and these beautiful tropical trees that have GORGEOUS flowers on them. I don't know the name though....

Right now were hanging out watching animal planet:)

*The image is from alohanursery.com

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Tsunami Warning


Today we woke up to tsunami warning sirens. We got up and realized we should probably turn on the tv to check in on the latest news. We also got onto the internet and looked at the stats. The Chile earthquake was an 8.8, it's so sad. I sure hope that the people can find a shelter and that God may give them refuge.

We are so thankful that we live away from the coastline and that we live on a hill. We felt relatively safe, and are so glad no damage occurred, and that the anticipated tsunami waves did not come after all. I'm sure grateful for the technology we have to be able to forecast things like this, to a certain extent, I mean nature has a mind of its own.

We had a good day over all. It was a gorgeous day today, sunny, beautiful, stunning weather. We walked to the store and got cold fruit drinks and Maui potato chips. Then went back home and we watched the news, finally we turned it off.

We had devotion time with a Bible study from Jeremiah & Matthew. We are so grateful that we have the Lord in our lives and we feel blessed to know Him.

Thank you Lord for always being there for us.


* The image is from BJ de Castro's Art Studio. It's titled "Night Waves"