Talk Story

So I'm out of San Francisco after a full day of chemical cleaning and packing up my clown car haha. I am so happy that I decided to go up and visit my grandpa instead of staying in the city and partying it up.

I will look back on visiting Grandpa before I left for the summer as one of the best decisions I ever made.  I had such an amazing time, I don't think I've ever bonded with my Grandpa this much in my entire life.  We talked story for hours and I learned so much about my Grandpa's life and his relationship with his family in Kahakuloa, my Grandma, my mom and my aunties and uncles.  I was surprised by how enlightening his stories were to the times he lived in and the struggles he and my Grandma faced raising 7 kids and being separated for a majority of their marriage with very little money.  Everyone already knows my Grandpa was kinda a bad ass...but now it's official, my Grandma is a SUPER WOMAN! I'll look back on my visit with Grandpa as a great beginning and a major highlight of an eventful summer.  I'm blessed to have such an awesome family, I'm lucky to be a part of it.

My grandpa drove me 2 hours back down to San Francisco for my flight...and when I got there I found out my flight was canceled 2 days ago! Needless to say I was pissed when they ended up shuttling my down to San Jose (because I could have saved Grandpa the drive and flown out of Sacramento). Lucky for Kainoa, I only got to Pensacola an hour and half late. When I got there Kainoa called me and surprised me at the airport.

This past weekend with Kainoa has been amazing. I don't know how I got so lucky to have such an amazing family AND such an amazing boyfriend.  He really does spoil me rotten and never expects anything in return.  Our "hotel" is anything but 5-star, but for the price I can't complain. My first night here we went to this bar/restaurant with a couple of his friends and his roommate. It was fun to see Kainoa in such a different group of people.  One of the other local guys' girlfriend came into town this weekend too so we were the only girls.  It's definitely a big change compared to San Francisco.  I used to tell Kainoa he was exaggerating too much about the weather, but it is HOT AS BALLS in Pensacola. I'm being forced to break my habit of always having a jacket with me because carrying anything extra just adds extra heat.  We went to the mall on Saturday because I had to buy a few more things for Semester at Sea and we passed this spicy store and Kainoa of course had to try the "hottest sauce in the world" Needless to say, it held up its name hahaha.  He actually started sweating and admit that it was "pretty warm" lol. It's his duty day today so I'm pretty much on my own the next 2 days all by my lonesome to explore this exciting land of Pensacola =P It's been really great to get to just sit around and talk while we eat dinner or watch TV and I know he's been enjoying getting to eat real food instead of what's in the cafeteria. 

I've spent a majority of today watching a Law & Order SVU Marathon and researching stuff for Semester at Sea. Hopefully this blog will post automatically to facebook since I spent a good deal of time figuring that out today...Maybe next weekend I'll get to see the beach here to compare to back home =)