Forced to Hitch ;)

Today has already proven to be an extremely full day. It marks Abe's 8 years on this earth and in my life and also brought with it the news of a potential job as well as a place to live!

I decided to catch the bus into Princeville, to familiarize myself with the area in which I will be working. Although meeting with my potential employers will have to wait until tomorrow morning, I was able to find a very fine belt to help keep the pants up on my ever shrinking waitsline...eeek!

I found some vegetarian sushi at Foodland, sat outside and ate it, and had my first experience with the donkey kick of a punch wasabi delivers to the sinuses. It was great!

Deciding a walk was in order, I started walking back to Kilauea, enjoying the beauty all around me and pinching myself every so often saying, "Do I seriously live here!?!"

My hip started giving me trouble but I kept pushing through it and simply asked it to submit to what I was asking it to do. Besides, I was getting close to my favorite bridge, where the trees all lean in as if to give people in their cars a hug. I couldn't wait to see it outside of a car!

All of a sudden, a woman pulled over along the side of the road and said, "Get in. It's not safe for you here." I declined but she was persistent and was causing people to angrily drive around her, cursing.

Her persistence won out and I got in. She told me her name was Jan and said she was just going to drop lunch off for her son and husband at the water garden down the road. She asked me to sit tight while she went in and she would drive me to where I needed to go afterwards. I was thankful to rest and as I sat there, I heard her say, "Birdie!" I turned and she was extending a water lily through the window to me. "This is for you. Smell it! If you put it in water, it will close up tonight and bloom for you one more time in the morning." Her gentle spirit and kind gesture squeezed my heart. I thanked her for her aloha spirit.

She took me back to the Kilauea Gym, gave me a huge hug, and wished me well on making Kauai my home. She said it looked like the island was already accepting me as its own. That made me very happy.

What a day! And it's still not over! Now it's time to go to the Farmer's Market :D