Famous for a night

Friday- you'd think we had a death wish.
I got out of class at noon and already I had plans. There were a couple of my friends that wanted to jump off Laie Point. I had heard about this and knew some people that had done it, but it never really looked that safe to me. It was a nice day out and I certainly wanted to be in the sun, so I decided I'd go with them to "check it out". We got there and the waves were HUGE! Bigger than I had ever seen them before! Absolutely enormous. So we went to the other side of the point, it was a little calmer but was still a little questionable. The way to get back out was even more questionable!! You had to swim and get in the current to where it would push you on top of this reef. Once you got on that you had to quickly stand up and get to higher ground before the next wave came and washed you back out again. Well, before I knew what was exactly going on, before I had even made a decision of whether I was doing it or not, the boys jumped in. Keep in mind; this was maybe a 30 ft cliff!! After some standing and arguing with myself, I take off my shoes and go for it. I JUMPED! It was one of those jumps where its so high that you literally have time to think about what you're doing during the fall! So here I am falling, flapping my arms like a penguin as if I was trying to take flight. Didn't work. I hit the salty water and quickly bobbed back to the surface. We swam around for a bit, the current taking you away from shore but then quickly swimming back in. I noticed my friends were starting to climb back out so I go too (I wasn't about to be left in the water by myself!). Now, remember how this was the complicated part? Yeah. So I swim over there realizing at some point I also need to take off my snorkeling gear (we had it thrown down for us) in the mix of trying to get out. So here I am, multitasking... trying to get my snorkel stuff off, timing the wave, watching for corral, and freaking out. I gracefully ripped off my snorkel stuff and headed towards the reef area, stood up and held on for dear life while the water was rushing back out. Me and Gina (the other girl I was with) quickly got up and got to where we thought was higher ground. We were wrong. The wave came and Gina struggled to hold on. Another wave came and this one successfully made her fall, she lost all of her stuff, she's sliding all over the reef from this unexpected monstrous wave. Meanwhile I'm trying to hurriedly get out of the way so the boys can go back and help her. I climb up, Gina somehow makes it and we all climb back up to the top of the point. Fewww!
After that we headed over to Pounders beach. The boys had been out there for awhile and us girls sat on the beach soaking up the sun and enjoying ourselves and the few. We decided we wanted to go out and get a little wet, nothing too serious, just enough to cool down. Well I got what I was asking for! We go out and the waves weren't too bad. They started getting bigger and so we started diving under them to avoid getting thrown around. The waves kept getting bigger and BIGGER next thing I know I'm not able to get low enough out of harms way. The waves are DESTROYING ME AND MY SWIMSUIT! Thats right, you read right, my swimsuit! Every now and then I bob to the surface to get a quick breath before the next giant wave comes and knocks me around! My swimsuit is trying to stay on... NOT WORKING! Fiiiinally I was able to get my footing and situate myself and run out of the water... only after making a complete fool of myself in the water. What an amateur!

One party, 3 different houses.
Earlier in the week my roommates decided we wanted to throw a "St. Patricks Day" party. We saved cans, bottles, and everything else you can imagine to recycle and with this money (a whole $10) to buy decorations and food! Well you can imagine how much we were able to buy with that... maybe 2 bags of chips? So we dug in our pockets and hit up the dollar store and found some really great deals! Oh and did I mention in order to get in the door you had to bring a "dish"? Ok well we weren't really strict with that rule, but we did ask people to bring stuff... hey it can be expensive to throw a party! We asked our landlord earlier in the week if it would be ok and she said sure and that it shouldn't be a problem. Great! Done deal!
The same night that our party was planned was our bball teams first game in regionals, so OF COURSE I had to go to that!! They're undefeated and I wasn't about to miss a game now! And boooy am I glad I didn't! It was an AWESOME game... they played the #8 team and it was a surprisingly close game. So after the game me, Robin, Whit and some other friends headed over to the Hale to a Latin Party before we headed to ours. GOOD DECISION! They had authentic tacos and they were UH-MAZING! We then headed back to my place where the party was already started. It wasn't real loud and there wasn't a ton of people there, a good size. However, within 45 mins we received negative feedback from the landlord.. and again 5 mins after that! A few choice words were said and they party got shut down. But yeeeeah RIGHT we're we going to end the party there. So we did the only other logical thing.. moved it to another house! GENIUS. So we went to another house and it was soo so nice, it lacked the decorations but the music was good and the people were fun. I officially learned how to latin dance! However, after an hour of being there we once again got a negative reaction from their landlord and she came down and gave us a good lecturing. And so we again moved locations to another place. By this time people were getting tired of all the drama and lameness so we called it good and me and my friends bailed and went to have a bonfire on the beach (the night was still young! Well, kinda.) It was a lot of fun! Dez brought his Uk and we all sat around talking and singing what few lines we knew. We called it a night at 2:30 and headed back to our own places.
Saturday we all slept in... longer than desired... just enough to feel like you slept away half the day :( however, i was still determined to make the most out of the Saturday! So we made a few calls and me and whit went up with some friends to Waimea beach and even grabbed some Acai Bowls on the way back. Have I told you about Acai bowls!? They are to die for! Acai berries, granola, honey, and bananas-- doesn't get much better than that!
We then headed back to Laie to get ready for the second bball game of the weekend... we got all dolled up and headed out the door! The game was packed (ok, not really... it had about 2,500 people- a good turn out for Hawaii!) I was even able to get on the tv once or twice, it was fun! Mom was calling me every couple of minutes to make sure it was really me she was seeing- "Yes Mom, it's your famous daughter, Kimaree! I know I know, it's exciting Mom! I HAVE TO GET BACK TO THE GAME!"
Afterward that we headed up to Turtle bay to do some hot tubbing and relaxing.. as if I hadn't gotten any earlier in the day, right? Welp.. when in Hawaii!