Jessika
01-25-2008, 01:26 PM
Not sure who all may have noticed but I've been gone the past two weeks on a cruise in beautiful Hawai'i! We even visited Fanning Island, which that alone took two days at sea to get there, we even had to cross the date line (meaning we "went into the fuuuuuturrreeeeee"; our passports are stamped the 17th eventhough it was the 16th!), and this place is not even 200 miles north of the equator. It is a third world country, but absolutely beautiful!!!
Hawai'i was everything I'd thought and hoped it to be, and I absolutely loved Kona on the Big Island and Kaua'i was gorgeous!!!
A few animal stories while I was there, though. First off -- whales galore!!! We saw baby whales with mama whales, pods, and some even popped up literally under our boat. I even saw humongous manta rays in the wild... it was so cool, definitely an experience you just simply don't get at the zoo.
Also while we were in Kona, Hawai'i (the Big Island) HJ and I were walking to the brewery there and we heard tires squealing and I turned around and some a-hole flipped around a corner in his truck with his puppy in the truck bed and THE PUPPY FLEW OUT OF THE TRUCK, but was tied down by his leash, so he was being strangled by the leash and being drug by the truck and bouncing off the back tire. Everyone on the street was screaming at him to stop, so the idiot slams on his brakes, which caused the puppy to slam into his tire, and THANK GOD his leash finally broke so he tumbled across the entire street and landed in the bushes in front of me and starts running and stumbling cause obviously his front leg is broken. HJ starts running after him, I'm bawling because I thought I just saw a puppy get run over, and the guys are still in the truck trying to figure out what's going on. Some other dude finally got the puppy and a lady pulls over because she sees me crying and is like "is that your dog?" and I'm like "No I just feel really bad for him". I felt like an idiot afterwards, and even more p*ssed that the idiot had a puppy tied down at the end of his leash unsupervised in the back of a truck AND was driving like a moron!!!!!!! If you're gonna have your dog in your truck, either crate him and tie down the crate, or at least have the brains to tie his leash down so he does not have enough free space to fall over the side of hte truck and strangle himself!!!!!!
But I had a good dream that night about the puppy and he was wearing a cast and had some bandaids on so I think he's ok :)
Plus in Kaua'i on our "Jungle Falls Kayak", we stopped to grab a bite to eat and out of the bushes comes the most adorable little kitty!! I wanted to take him home with me! Apparently he's making appearances for about a month now, so everyone fed him some of their sandwiches, which is what he was waiting for apparently cause he went to town! And wild chickens flew up to join us for lunch also. Chickens are rampantly wild in Hawai'i, but I noticed a ton more on Kaua'i than on any other island.
Ooh, and while on Fanning Island, we were just relaxing on the beach when two little piggies run up and start snorting and digging in the sand. They were so cute!
I took so many pictures so I can't post any here, but I have uploaded a lot to facebook and made the galleries public so you should all have no problem viewing them (let me know if you do, though!).
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=26847&l=cd37a&id=501889047
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=27875&l=a6126&id=501889047
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=27879&l=5ba00&id=501889047
Hawai'i was everything I'd thought and hoped it to be, and I absolutely loved Kona on the Big Island and Kaua'i was gorgeous!!!
A few animal stories while I was there, though. First off -- whales galore!!! We saw baby whales with mama whales, pods, and some even popped up literally under our boat. I even saw humongous manta rays in the wild... it was so cool, definitely an experience you just simply don't get at the zoo.
Also while we were in Kona, Hawai'i (the Big Island) HJ and I were walking to the brewery there and we heard tires squealing and I turned around and some a-hole flipped around a corner in his truck with his puppy in the truck bed and THE PUPPY FLEW OUT OF THE TRUCK, but was tied down by his leash, so he was being strangled by the leash and being drug by the truck and bouncing off the back tire. Everyone on the street was screaming at him to stop, so the idiot slams on his brakes, which caused the puppy to slam into his tire, and THANK GOD his leash finally broke so he tumbled across the entire street and landed in the bushes in front of me and starts running and stumbling cause obviously his front leg is broken. HJ starts running after him, I'm bawling because I thought I just saw a puppy get run over, and the guys are still in the truck trying to figure out what's going on. Some other dude finally got the puppy and a lady pulls over because she sees me crying and is like "is that your dog?" and I'm like "No I just feel really bad for him". I felt like an idiot afterwards, and even more p*ssed that the idiot had a puppy tied down at the end of his leash unsupervised in the back of a truck AND was driving like a moron!!!!!!! If you're gonna have your dog in your truck, either crate him and tie down the crate, or at least have the brains to tie his leash down so he does not have enough free space to fall over the side of hte truck and strangle himself!!!!!!
But I had a good dream that night about the puppy and he was wearing a cast and had some bandaids on so I think he's ok :)
Plus in Kaua'i on our "Jungle Falls Kayak", we stopped to grab a bite to eat and out of the bushes comes the most adorable little kitty!! I wanted to take him home with me! Apparently he's making appearances for about a month now, so everyone fed him some of their sandwiches, which is what he was waiting for apparently cause he went to town! And wild chickens flew up to join us for lunch also. Chickens are rampantly wild in Hawai'i, but I noticed a ton more on Kaua'i than on any other island.
Ooh, and while on Fanning Island, we were just relaxing on the beach when two little piggies run up and start snorting and digging in the sand. They were so cute!
I took so many pictures so I can't post any here, but I have uploaded a lot to facebook and made the galleries public so you should all have no problem viewing them (let me know if you do, though!).
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=26847&l=cd37a&id=501889047
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=27875&l=a6126&id=501889047
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=27879&l=5ba00&id=501889047