All's Well

I got a couple of phone calls today and yesterday family members with both callers calling to check up on our family, how we're doing in spite of the Tsunami that was headed our way Friday morning from Japan. I deeply want to apologize to these two considerate relatives of ours for not calling them first to avoid worrying them.

Once again, we've been very fortunate that the Tsunami has passed this island almost unscathed. Because our house is in a Tsumani zone, my family had to evacuated once again up to our chapel that was located on higher ground. We spent the night in the church parking lot, with the kids sleeping the car and a little shut eye here and there til we got the ok from Hawaii's governor to move back to our homes.

We got evacuated to the designated area around midnite and was there til around nine thirty the next morning. I am really grateful that our house is still standing and that we are not homeless right now. My heart and prayer go out to all those Japanese people. Anyways, we are all safe, Hawaii still looking as beautiful as she always does.

To all of our family and friends on the mainland USA and in Micronesia, All's well...thank you for the calls, your prayers and concerns. We love and miss you all bunches!!!☺

Love♥ always,

Thank Goodness It's Only a Warning

As everyone knows, Saturday was a quite a scare for Hawaii. A Tsunami Warning was issued to all the residents living close to the shores along with evacuation notice for shoreline residence to move to higher ground. Thankfully we had some set time to aim for..which was at 11 a.m.

Our house sits across the street from the ocean so our family definitely needed to evacuate from it to higher ground. We spent a couple of hours putting everything else we feel of importance to the highest level of our house and locked them up. We took changes of clothes, food, emergency kits, water, flashlight, tent, sleeping bags, blankets, anything that we feel we would need and some gameboards and books to help stem the wait. We then drove up to the chapel on the hill.

Goodness gracious, the parking lot was jam packed with people and their vehicles. We managed to squeezed our van and a truck in there somewhere.



Of course, here in Hawaii, when people get together whether planned or not, it always turned into something positive and we usually turned it into a social event..LOL.







These are classic..that's my friend Brandi's son on top of his car.


And yes, this guy is sleeping on a jetski!!



And of course, it wouldn't have been a memorable event without my little princess staking her claim on some handsome cute little hunk, now would it? LOL





I am extremely grateful that the predicted big wave that was suppose to hit Hawaii died out before it hit here. There would've been a lot of homeless people today, including my family if there was an actual tsunami hit. I am happy to report that everyone was safe...all the adults were truly happy that we didn't get devastated by a natural disaster but the kids, all the kids who evacuated with their families were a bit disappointed that there was no show of the big wave. This is what the sea looked like at the estimated time the tsunami was suppose to hit the island...

One thing for sure though, this Tsunami warning is a great test to see who's actually prepared. Although our family was able to get to higher ground and able to put the rest of belonging into secured places in our house and actually had our 72-hr. kits, water, changes of clothes, there were some things that I find a bit lacking. So for sure, I am a bit more aware now and will be able to do better next time.

A big mahalo goes out to all our family and friends on the mainland for your prayers and concerns.