KONA TRIP!!!!

Ok this whole post is from our trip to Kona, the Big Island. It was such a FUN trip!!! We went from thursday morning to Sunday morning with 11 of us. There were SO many funny hilarious moments and we did so many fun things!! The pictures are all out of order so you'll have to go through and read them but they're a lot of fun! This picture below is a picture of the front view of the house we were staying in, it was awesome!! ENJOY!!!

These are some gnarly waves at the beach in Kona that were huge and fun!!

This was an AWESOME part of Kona, we drove in the Uhaul for about 2 hours and then walked across a field for like 2.5 miles to this Green Sand Beach. The green sand even sparkled!! I got burried in it too it was great. 

This is a giant blow hole that brave people jump into...unfortunately I was not one of these people, but the next one I was!!!

This is a cliff some of us jumped off of, it looks like it falls off the edge of the earth. It was about 35 feet up and YES I did it. It was crazy because after we jumped there was a big rusted latter that swung in the wind that you had to climb up to get back up. And when we went home after this the people whose house we were staying at told us they've been over there a couple times when sharks were down there swimming so they didn't jump! CRAZY!!

Here's the few from above it's an awesome view!!

Pretty Kona Temple:

GET IN THE UHAUL!!! haha

In their back yard they had some apple-banana trees that we got to go pick them from whenever they were delicious!!!

Someone snagged this GROSS picture of me here, I was head-butting the soccerball back into the Uhaul truck and somehow my friend Robin got the perfect picture of it....ARG!!!

Shad HUGE armpit and my playing the Ukulele on the hammock, such a relaxing trip!!!

Here are a couple pictures of the house we stayed in. It was super nice and the family that let us stay there are very nice people and were so generous in letting us stay there. It was great!

Yes that is me in the middle dominating at head stands!!! Haha i beat everyone until someone decided to cheat and throw sand at my butt...so Zach barely beat me but it was cheap!!

Here is a tunnel cave thing that goes on forever that we walked through. They form from volcanoes and lava that explode....long time ago!

This is all of us walking through a tunnel cave thing that was formed from the volcanoes many years ago. Shad (in the yellow) was throwing big boulders and I decided to try and beat him....not a good idea. I picked a huge one up and slice up both thumbs and was bleeding everywhere it was great :(

ON OUR WAY!!! We all had super early flight that morning, some of us departed at 5:55 AM and some departed at 7 AM, but we all road together so it was a morning full of airport waiting. It was a lot of fun, this is Shad and Kelsey smiling for the camera.

KONA ARRIVAL!!! This is when we all finally met up at the airport there, we were so excited and Shad's big hand is totally in the way that nub!

Here we are right after we left the airport at the Uhaul place trying to decide what we want to rent for the weekend. To rent a Uhaul it was a flat fee for the weekend and then charged a certain amount per mile. That compared to two rental cars for the weekend was much cheaper! It ended up being about $28 bucks a person so it was great! We all just loaded up in the back of a uhaul while Shad was up front driving, slamming on the breaks as much as possible, and driving on the continuous bumps along the side of the road to make it as load as possible in the back! It was pretty funny with us all flying around in the back there. One time I was sitting towards the front of the Uhaul and Zach (one of our friends) was sitting on the cooler. Shad thought it would be hilarious to hit the breaks again so Zach goes flying and lands right on me, I caught him....haha it was pretty funny. 

This is the backyard of the house we stayed at, the hammock is amazing and the grass totally looks fake but it's not!!

Here's the beach went to for a while, awesome skim boarding and lots of sun!!!

Playin at the beach: someone sculpted Shad's body on Kimmaree's head....pretty close eh?

Back of the Uhaul...on our way to the temple some lady pulls up right behind us and pulls out a camera. She rolls down her window and asks, "Are you guys goin to prom," we were like, "Um NO we're not goin to prom!" haha it was pretty funny.

The Kona Temple

Here we all are at the Kona temple, we got to do baptisms for the dead and it was awesome!!!

These are the guys....they're so fun!! Shad wants me to say he's the best :) From left to right it goes Evan, Ryan, Beau, Shad, and Zach. 

Thanks to our great guy friends we had the opportunity to go to the Kona temple and do baptisms for the dead. Between 11 of us we did 400+ names! It was so fun, from left to right its Robin, Kimmaree, Allie, Hailey, Janelle, and Kelsey. Love these girls!!

These are the biggest snowcones ever!!  We shared this huge thing with 4 girls, with icecream in the bottom, and sweet and condensed milk ontop....SO YUM!!!

FREAKIN SICK BED BUGS!!!!

GROSS!!! Yes these are our little nasty digusting freakin bed bugs that are infested inside all 3 of our mattresses. Hailey my roomie was sleeping and saw a bunch of speckles of dirt....to our surprise they were not dirt specks...they were all BED BUGS!!! So she screams and i go in there and we pull off all of our sheets and everything and find these patches of them! There were hundreds of them! So we finally found where our blood spots on our pillows and sheets have been coming from, SO GROSS!! 

Now all three of us have been sleeping on the hard wood floor next to the kitchen the last couple night, and i'm thinking thats where we will be for the rest of the semester because our landlord won't do much about it. We are all grossed out!

PARTY!!! haha this was our night of mooning people...:)

No it was really our night of Birthday dinners for my roomies Kelsey and Hailey, it was a fun fun night!

At Haliewa Eats...the best Thai food ever!! Fun group of friends!!

Here's my little problem car....her name is Sady

The front of the car was a little accident, I didn't hit anything I just rolled into something. haha

None of these ugly bumper stickers were put on by me i promise! And the missing bumper wasn't me either but it gives her a little more personalilty!!!

Free Fallin'!!!

On my way to do the craziest thing ever.....

YA BABY!! This is our skydiving adventure, it was the funnest most crazy wildest thing i've ever done!! And I'd do it in a heart beat again, only if it was free though :) But if you haven't done it yet, hawaii is the place to go and do it it's amazing! We went in a group of about 14 people and we all made it out safely and alive. Nothing to worry about right?!

Wild spider we found while we were waiting to jump, weird huh!

The girls i LOVE EM!!

Me and my instructor dude named HERB!! He was kinda a crazy, he told us how he thought mormons had many wives he was kinda weird. But it was fun!!

The crew before the jump!!! These girls are great!!!

The girls: Kelsey (left) Me and Janelle (right). These girls are so so fun, to be honest they almost didn't come but I talked them into it because this is the "Semester of Yes" Let me explain, this semester might be all of our last semester out here so we decided that any opportunity that comes up we have to say YES!!! So now this is our semester of YES!!

This is the tiny plane we were scrunched in. Just to inform you how awkward this situation could possibly be, each person (girl) is sitting in front of the instructors (boys) and are strapped tightly to them so we don't die. Well I was the lucky one to be on the very end of the bench and with the force of the plane pushing everyone down towards me I was totally falling off the bench trying my hardest to hold everyone back from squishing me. Finally my instructor guy noticed and pulls me up even closer to him (ok awkward) and I just try to sit and ignore it and enjoy the view.

I think this one is me, oh well. The last thing the instructor told us to do is when we land to lift up your feet as much as possible so they could land ok and standing up. Just so you know me and my trainer guy landed perfectly!

DID I REALLY JUST DO THAT?!! Ya i totally did!!!

We're SO brave!! haha so fun!!

After our free falling experience of a lifetime!!!

This is the black sand beach we went to called "Waipio Valley" it was way cool cuz the sand was totally black, it looked like real smashed up oreos. And it didn't even get ur clothes dirty at all. I learned how to skim board here it was fun!

So Hailey, my house mate, and I were sitting in the back of the truck making sandwiches and out of no where she goes, "OH A BIRD JUST SHIZZED ON ME!! IT'S WARM!!" hahaha we laughed so hard and took pictures real quick before she wiped it off. 

COOL!!!

Haha this is my friend Justin and he ate it on his skim board!! It was fun takin pictures of these guys cuz I got lots of good ones, and lots of ones like this!!

Ok so this is my hospital adventure that I never want to have to go through again!! I had a kidney stone this past monday night that I roughed through and it passed but it hurt real bad; worst pain I've ever been in. People say that I know I can have babies now because that's how bad it gets! Luckily I have awesome house mates and they insisted on taking me to the hospital. I didn't want to go but after an hour of the horrible pain my friend's dad that's an anesthesiologist told us to go because it was something to do with kidneys. So we got there and they took two urine samples, took my blood, put an IV in, and took a cat scan. We waited for about two and a half hours and they finally came back with the results that I had passed a kidney stone and I have cysts on my ovaries. Luckily it's not a serious thing so they didn't have to do anything about it but I was glad to be home at 1am that morning with out that pain in my lower right back side!!