Maps of Hawai'i & Saying Goodbye to the Koreans

Maps of Hawai'i:

http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/namerica/usstates/lgcolor/hicolor.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii#Geography_and_environment

This weekend was awesome! My Korean friends were all leaving this weekend, so we had a long extended goodbye weekend together. Daniel (Bumsoo Opa) rented this sick white SUV and we went up to Mauna Kea, which is one of the world's best observatories. We ate at Huli Sue's, which has a well deserved reputation as one of the best pork ribs and banana cream pies on the Island if not all of Hawai'i. Unfortunately they were out of ice cream, so we couldn't try their amazing milkshakes.

It was still an amazing sunset, and when we got to the top, it was all cloudy. It usually never clears, but we all prayed, and LO and BEHOLD, the clouds parted and we saw amazing amazing stars!!!!!!!!!!!! In case you didn't read my previous blog, it's one of the world's best observatories. Go during the new moon, as the full moon usually gives off too much light. But I learned some new constellations.

The next morning we woke early and hit up Waipio Valley, Akaka Falls
http://www.hawaiiweb.com/Hawaii/html/sites/akaka_falls_state_park.html, Hilo and Laupahoehoe Point Beach Park. There is this great mochi shop called Two Ladies Kitchen which has the BEST strawberry mochi. No, I don't consider myself a foodie, but after hanging out with a serious foodie (Bumsoo works in a Japanese restaurant in Korea and aspires to be the next Iron Chef....) and an amateur foodie named Hye Won, (she takes pictures of the food presentations like Anna Ing) I think I'm a notch below foodie.

I miss my Koreans. FOUR left today, which was awful. Two more leave on the 27th, and then it will only be me and Yuri. It's so huge having them here, and it's gonna be so weird without them. Their sweet sweet sweetness will be truly truly missed.

That's definitely the hardest thing about being a Mission Builder. Friends are always coming and going. You get to know people so well, and then poof, they're gone!!!!!!