Aloha all

I love being home, but I hate not being in Hawaii.

Oahu is a beautiful island full of laid back people, traffic jams, shrimp trucks and the North Shore. Our house was on the ocean where in the morning we could watch turtles play off shore and the neighbors fish for their dinner.

Dang, I loved the North Shore. April and I spent two days up there watching the "small" wave surfing. Waves were only 6-10 feet those two days, and the locals were waiting for the big ones to arrive .. any day now.

Purdue played its best half of football all year, too bad they didn't play that way the entire game, or we would have had the victory we were after.

We hiked in a rainforest to see a ginormous waterfall. Of course, being in a rainforest means, it's gonna rain. And rain it did, but what fun it was. We even did some snorkelling. Saw a ton of fish, but limited my snorkelling to three trips. We even got my dad to go out one day. He was lucky enough to come face to face with a sea turtle.

When we got home, my favorite aunt in the whole, wide world greeted us at the airport with our cars. We didn't even have to drive back to Bargersville and then back north. It saved us at least an hour and was the nicest thing. Even nicer than that, she filled up the gas tank so we didn't have to stop on the way home. How cool is that?

I got a good chunk of "In Cold Blood" read on the long, ass-numbing plane ride, and will likely finish it this week as I slowly move out of "Island-Time" and get back to the stressful work of newspaper.

-DJr.-