Diary Day Three/Four

Ahh! I know, I meant to blog last night but I was just SO exhausted!

Okay, sooo, let's start with the last thing I posted about Wednesday night.

Bowling went fine. I met some of his friends and they were all so friendly. Jason really made me feel welcome by asking me questions about home and stuff and suggesting places we should go see and yadda, yadda, yadda. I think we're going spearfishing on ... tomorrow or Sunday. We shall see. I was pretty tired so after my 5th frame I had Nick's brother, Kevin, bowl for me. He was pretty good after he warmed up(:

We got home about maybe 2:30AM local time. I went to bed - so tired, ya know?

Thursday, May 27th, 2010.
Woke up with Nick to go to work. Walked over to Longs Drugstore to pick up some chips and drinks for 'Noah' back in the office. Poor, sweet kid, he's so grateful whenever someone buys him food. I feel so bad for him. Anyway, the recruiters eventually came in and had some meeting about who's shipping out and what not. It was so pointless for Nick to be there! And such bull too because they said they'd give him Thursday and Friday off. I can't say I remember much of what I did yesterday... All I know is that we went to the Navy Exchange (NEX) to pick up some brass plate for a Master Gunnery Sergent for some personal gift item to be presented to him at his retirement ceremony that night. I did a quick short walk through and we got "chow" and headed back to the office. His Staff Sergent excused us awhile after we got back. So, Nick and I called up Kevin to ask him where he was. He invited us to go to White Plains, a beach like half an hour or so away. We got home, I changed into my swimsuit and some shorts and we headed out. Along the way I lathered on the sunblock. It was raining and overcast, but it was still pretty warm. We got to the beach, laid out our towels, and just laid out looking over the water at the swimmers, body boarders, and surfers. It wasn't raining at the beach which I thought was kinda odd. Anyway, eventually we gave up looking for his brother (if you consider us just looking out into the water 'looking' hahaha) and headed back to the house where his dad told us he'd be making teriyaki chicken and beef. As we pulled into the drive, it smelled delicious! I thought one of his neighbors was having a bbq but it turns out Nick's dad had pulled out the grill onto the top porch and was grilling the chicken and beef. It was quite delicious(: I'm not kidding either. Pretty damn good. We went back downstairs and watched a movie while eating and Kitty got into my bowl of food. I was already done though so all she did was really lick up some of the sauce from the bbq. Tricky, smart dog I tell ya. Hahaha. Apparently, she'll do nearly anything for food. Took the dishes up to wash, but his mother said I'd just have to put them down because there was no room for me at the sink. Liar! She just didn't want me to do the dishes. Hahaha.

Nick and I headed out for a short "hike" into some lower part of the ... area. Apparently, it used to be a road. However, we soon found out that no one must've gone down that trail in... MONTHS. It was so overgrown with Elephant grass (it's leaves are like sugarcane; it has those little prickles that stick into your skin? Painful!!) and we weren't prepared. All we had to chop through were throwing knives which we soon gave up on using. Instead, Nick pushed through first, plowing through the grass, pushing it down with his feet, and making his own path because there wasn't one anymore. I walked into him when he stopped suddenly (I wasn't prepared for the elephant grass and only had a short sleeved shirt on. Was trying my best not to rub against the grass and was too busy to focus on when Nick stopped or not.) and told me to hold on. This is when we found out why the road hasn't been used. There were danger fences that we nearly walked straight into. Thank God they were there or we would've stepped right over a cliff. Turns out, the road had caved in. There was just this deep gully that lead down to ... more forest I guess you could say. However, Nick formed an alternate route and we made it to the end of the trail where I found pigs and goats all locked up in these tiny little pens! I'd say animal cruelty, at least for the pigs. The two goats didn't look like they had it bad. Nick picked me some cherry and ... a ka-something nut? Apparently the nut is used for leis when they dry out. The cherry was super sour! And like nothing i've ever seen. I had Nick take a bite of it first out of fear it might be poisonous. xD Anyway, we hiked it back home and retreated back into the room to take a nap.

Upon waking, we headed out to Foodland to buy some things for Nick's dad. With my current obsession of 'Munchies' (the hot ones) I added that to our grocery list. (Random fact: Nick and Kevin had NO IDEA what 'Munchies' were [starting to assume it's a Hawaiian thing. :P ]!! His mom knew, but she didn't know they made spicy ones. hahaha.) We bought the stuff and headed back home, unloaded, and went back into the room to think about what to do. Nick seemed like he really wanted to hit the club, but that's not really my scene. So instead, he took me out to Ford Island. Part of the Pearl Harbor Navy base. I really thought he was planning something bigger - if you get what I mean (Involves a ring, hint, hint?) - because I'd found him researching about the island's lodge a little bit. Anyway, we looked at the city lights from a dark part of the island near the lodge. Beautiful(: Oh, and the bridge we took to get to the island (it's the gate to the base. Guards are at the front beginning of the bridge.) is right next to the USS Arizona memorial! Nick pulled over for a quick stop so I could take a picture of it at night. The thought that more than a thousand of servicemen were down there was a very sombering thought that nearly brought tears to my eyes. I can't take thinking about the death of our military women and men. It makes me so depressed and I almost always get watery, teary eyes and need to fight to keep my composure. It's a confession i'm embarrassed to make, to be honest. Anyway, after that he lead me to another 'surprise location'. Where was this? Tantalus. A popular destination for the younger generation (I'm sure I don't need to say what for -__-" ) as well as drifters. It's one of the mountains on the island of Oahu that is said to be haunted in some areas. Filled with plenty of sharp turns and super dark, along with only one way in, one way out, makes it popular for drift races. I'm telling you, the view is gorgeous, but the drive is pretty dangerous. We were going maybe about 30mph and I can't imagine how these drifters can push past 40 on those turns. Nick wants me to go up sometime with his friends. I told him, hell NO. I do NOT want to know what it's like to go careening off some mountain in a car with a stranger I just met driving, and Nick. I don't care if they've raced the mountain a million times, accidents are called accidents for a reason! No one ever plans them to happen. Anyway, Nick shared some ghost stories with me and there were a couple teens that parked near us but stayed in the car. I was starting to get spooked so we walked back to the car and left. He asked me if I'd like to go to Waikiki but I was just so exhausted I asked if we could just go home. He seemed a bit disappointed but understood and drove me home. I was dozing our way down the mountain and on the freeway. Eventually I gave up trying to fight it and just fell asleep. I woke up when he was pulling into the garage, stumbled (literally the whole way, hahaha) out of the car and down the stairs and into the bedroom where I collapsed on the bed. Nick dragged me out to take me to the bathroom and begged me to at least take my contacts out. I did, stumbled back into his room, and knocked out. I think he said something about taking a shower but I was so tired I didn't care. We got home at like 3am.

Friday, May 28, 2010.
Woke up, went to work with Nick and Kevin, waited for the Poolies to all get there, took them to the Pearl Harbor Navy Base to work out in their gym, Nick, Kevin, and I grabbed breakfast at Burger King instead, then walked next door to the gym and "worked out". Well, they worked out, I kinda just stood there. Nick made me do some curl ups, bench, and some other machine thing. I kept complaining I was on vacation, and not another one of his poolies. We left the poolies there to go to the postal exchange to grab anti-itch cream for my bug bites (They're eating me here!! Ahh!!) and some drinks. Headed back to the gym to pick them up and headed back to the office. We were waiting for a text from his Staff Sergent letting us know we're good to go for the 72 weekend. Until then, Nick sat me down on the practice ASVAB test thing where I scored a 70. (I got lazy halfway through and stopped working out some of the questions. It was a lot longer than I thought it was so I stopped being so 'gung-ho' about it two sections in. Lol.) I came back out and asked what it was out of. The poolies said '100'. So there I am feeling pretty shitty about getting a 'C' and thinking maybe I should've actually tried. That the poolies probably all scored higher than me. However, when they heard I got a '70' they kept saying that it was a pretty high score and that would allow me to get almost any MOS I wanted. I still felt like crap. It was a 'C' in my book and that is NOT that good. I don't care what you say, buddy. Lol. Anyway, we got the text soon after and was about to leave when I realized 'Noah' probably hasn't eaten anything all day. So I went back to the office and asked, he said it was fine, but I walked next door and bought him something to eat. It was a little Mexican restaurant called 'Banditos'. Nick used to work there so we struck up a conversation with a waiter Nick knew, and the owner. Food came out and I delivered it to 'Noah' who seemed really thankful but looked like he felt bad. I told him not to worry about it and that it was really my pleasure. I don't care how broke I am, I'm not gonna let some poor kid starve. I really hope everything works out for him and he can get into the Corps. At least he'll have food, and a place to stay once he gets in. :/

We got home, I showered, and Nick's mom came home. We headed to the NEX for the case lot sale (held in the parking lot) where we had some trouble getting in, but got in eventually. Bought some stuff, then headed into the NEX itself to shop for groceries I guess? Nick dumped me on his mom so her and I walked around looking at name brand purses (Coach, ... etc. Sorry, I don't know my name brands.) and jewelry from other name brand.. places. I explained to her I wasn't much of a shopper and didn't really know my big brand names. She said that was good and there were better things to spend my money and brain cells on. Hahaha. An Air Force woman asked us which purse thing to buy and Nick's mom seemed pretty helpful. She also struck up a conversation with the girl and eventually thanked us and left. Nick found us and eventually we headed back out to the car with our bag of groceries (four packs of mini mallows and string cheese. Ooh, so much to carry. Haha.)

There was BADD traffic on the way back home and we swung by 'Curry House' to pick up dinner. His mom offered to take us out and wanted me to try the Curry House. We walked by some sushi place that had the conveyor belt thing and she asked me if i've ever been to place like that. I said no and she was so shocked. Lol. We got into the car where she told Nick and he was like, "SERIOUSLY?! YOU'VE NEVER BEEN TO ONE!?" So now, Nick's mother insists we go out to a family dinner to a sushi place with a conveyor belt. Hahaha. His mother's hilarious! She says comments that I didn't think someone her age (Not that i'm calling her old!!! >__< ) would say. I'm not even going to quote her on what she made me laugh so hard about in the car. Hahaha.

Anyway, we got home, ate, watched some TV with his dad, and went back into the room. I opened up Blogspot to blog about the day, but Nick took over (with the excuse that he'd find a better place to buy his brother's graduation present. I figured out the perfect gift for Kevin! A Playstation 3!!! Nick's mom insists he doesn't need one and that it's a waste of money. Haha, but Kevin seems to really enjoy playing it at the recruting office and he's pretty damn good. Like, I mean this boy can go pro.) and I ended up knocking out beside him. I guess I'm a lot more tired than I thought.

Nick is still knocked out which is why I stole the laptop away to blog about the past two days. He just got a call from Kevin (not his brother but his best friend) asking if we wanted to go out and do something. He agreed, said he was gonna shower, but knocked back out. Hahaha. I guess I should wake him up.

I'll post about how tonight goes. xD

Until then, toodles!
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