Finding JOY in the JOURNEY...: Kualoa Ranch with ASH!!!!!!!!!

May 9, 2011

Kualoa Ranch with ASH!!!!!!!!!

My sweet friend Ashley was leaving the island (boo) so we had a girls day out before she left and went to Kualoa ranch and took their movie tram tour!

They had an old WW2 bunker filled with memorabilia of movies that had been filmed there and of course Pearl Harbor is my favorite:)

It was SOOOOOOOO beautiful!!! I have driven by the Koolau montain ranges all my life but had never been back behind to see it up close and it was breath taking. The pictures really dont do it justice!

Jurassic Park was filmed here and this is a tree stump that the kids hide under when the dinosaurs are chasing them;)

This is Godzilla's foot print that me and Ash posed for a picture in...we had tons more but Blogger is being fussy so I will post more later. But right before this picture, another family asked to take a picture of them and their 4 year old was telling their mom I NEED TO GO POTTY...and she was like ok after the picture honey...well Im in the middle of taking a picture and the little boy just could hold it and strating going pee right in the middle of the picture. His parents were DYING and we were ROLLING laughing...they were so embarrassed and we reassured them that we had no problem with it. OF COURSE i snapped a few pictures of it for htem and they were laughing so hard and talking about showing the picture to his prom date one day:) Totally cute!

I will really miss Ashley...we met by pure chance and because so close so quickly...it was totally meant to be. It's amazing how close you can get to someone in a few months but I will always love her for being such a great friend to me...for being there for me, making me laugh ALOT and helping me get my house in order...Im a cleaning MACHINE now thanks to her:P I love you ASH and cant wait for you and Eric to come back and visit us!!!!!!!!!

1 comment:

Janet said...: You always have such a good time...and now that you are a cleaning machine....please come and get me back in that mode!; 4:04 AM

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Once upon a time...

Mibi grew up in Laie and attended Kahuku High and Lee grew up in Haleiwa and Mililani and attended Mililani High. Mibi went to College at BYU-Hawaii and then served a mission in the Utah Ogden Mission before meeting the man of her dreams. After school, Lee jumped into the workforce looking for his career and eventually ended up working for Mibi's family flower shop at Turtle Bay while Mibi was serving her mission...and never thought that this job would lead him to his "Angel". We met in Septmeber of 2001 after I returned home from my mission. I came back to the flower shop to manage things for my Mom and Lee had left to pursue his education. Well a few months later, Lee's education path didn't take the direction he had hoped and instead life lead him back to Turtle Bay. The first thing he did was call Mom to get his job back and of course she said YES. So, I was Lee's boss and there was an instant friendship...it felt as if we had known each other our entire lives. We kept it strictly business for a few weeks and then one night I was gong to make a Wal-Mart run after work and called him to see if he wanted to come along. His phone was busy (the days before call waiting) and I almost gave up...but after a few more tries he picked up and from that night on we were inseperable. I think we told each other our life stories that night and we both knew then that our lives would never be the same! Over the next year, we formed a deep love and respect for each other which kept us connected through a few rough patches and across the ocean as Mibi moved back to Utah. Finally after a year of being best friends, we both realized that there is no one on earth we would rather be with than each other! We were a couple for about two years when Lee proposed to me and we tied the knot at the exact place we first met...the same hotel the flower shop was located when we worked there...TURTLE BAY. And to add to our JOY, we have a beautiful daughter Savannah (Lee's biological and Mibi's spiritual daughter ) who we just ADORE! She is so smart, funny, outgoing, a jabberbox like her Dad and just the cutest thing you have ever seen!!! We also are praying that we can give her a little brother or sister sometime in the next year or two!!! Until then we have a Doberman (Kayla) and a cat (Shadow) that we spoil rotten and of course all of our Nieces and Nephew's. It has been almost 8 years of wedded bliss and although we have had our ups and downs, each experience has made us grow more in love with each other and are still each others best friend!