My Parents visit for SPRING BREAK !!

This last 4 days we managed to squeeze in about 10 days worth of family vacation. Friday they arrived in the afternoon we met Ashley at Ted's Bakery and we attended our ward temple night, Saturday we hit up Costco, Diamond Head, The Swap meet, Pearl Harbor, the rstaurant Phuket Thai, Matsumoto's shave ice, Sunset at Chun's reef and Ted" Bakery once again. Sunday we went to church and a photo sephari/ island tour where we went to Laie Point, Bakini Beach, Valley of the temples, Lanikai beach, and Electric Beach. Monday I got beat by my old man in racketball, we went to the temple ruins/ Waimea lokout, Dillingham Airfield, ate lunch in Haliewa and Jaimeson's, Matsumoto's, then Waimea beach. Tuesday we packed up went to Ted's Bakery one final time, walmart and at 11:40 in the morning to the airport.
The highlights of the trip we staying up late watching "juno" and "Lars and the Real girl" with my mom. Skydiving was amazing. It wasn't nearly as scarey as I imagined it being. I did have to pay the chubby tax for being 5 pounds over 200. I'm so glad I got to do it, it was one of the funnest things I've ever done in my life. I also became more of a FATBOY because we ate so much good food. Anyways it was great to hav visitors, we appreciated it so much and if you scroll down you can see some of my pictures of our little vacation at home.

Sky Dive Hawaii

Sunsets

Electric Beach

Chun's Reef

Waimea Bay

Lanikai Beach

Valley of the Temples

Laie Point

Pearl Harbor

Diamond Head Crater

Kokua Festival 2008

Once again the Kokua Festival didn't disappoint.

This year featured: Kokua regular Paula Fuga who Ashley swears is the Hawaiian reincarnation of Alicia Keys, Mason Jennings who is a new school version of Bob Dylan and special guests Dave Mathews and Tim Reynolds. Dave Mathews and Tim Reynolds were the highlight of the night, Tim Reynolds plays guitar like nobodies business and Dave was hilarious although incoherent at times. Ashley and I's favorite moment was when Jack Johnson dedicated his new song "Angel" to his wife and he transitioned into a cool version of OUR song "Better Together".

This was my 3rd Kokua Festival and I feel so lucky to have been able to see musicians like Ben Harper, Willie Nelson, Enrie Cruz Jr, Damian Marley,Matt Costa, Eddie Vedder, and now I can throw Dave Mathews in the mix, I feel so lucky to be able to have seen these artists live and in the Waikiki Shell no less. I think once I'm out of here my luck will have run out, so I have to have a lifetime of concerts while I'm still out here.

Matt Costa

Last year I was introduced to Matt Costa at the Kokua Music festival and of course I liked his music. I knew he was coming for a show at a small venue in China Town and I didn't think I could go for two reasons, I didn't think I had the money and two (and most importantly) Finals week which starts tomorrow was going to mean I had test everyday this week. (we don't have any kind of dead week here just last day of instruction (today) and BOOM! its finals tomorrow.

Anyways the miracle occurred Sunday night when my buddy Mathoni came over and invited me to go to the concert with him, what was I supposed to say no? are you kidding? Ashley was all for me going and luckily for me I didn't have anything going on Tuesday night. It was one of the best concerts I've been to in my life. I was standing about 15 feet away from the man and the place was pretty small. I'll tell you what if you ever get a chance to go to a Matt Costa concert do it because Matt will not let you down, the man is a performer and he sounded better live. Apart from that, he didn't really swear or say anything dirty his whole hour and a half long set. The guy who opened up for Matt Costa (Micah Wolf) was surprisingly talented as well. After the show Matt Costa just went outside and talked to everyone, he was really approachable and I got to shake his hand I only wish I had brought a camera.

To conclude this blog I think we ALL left with a little crush for Matt Costa. j/k (kinda)