So Here We Are...After a Long Flight and Wedding

Again, I've put off blogging to the point where I have to blog about months at a time. Well, here's the deal.

Amy and I have moved back from Kapolei, Hawai'i and are now residing in Rockland, Massachusetts to our respective homes. Our time from May to June in Hawai'i was priceless and I cannot ever put into words the amount of fun, frustration and happiness I had in those last two months.

May was basically a closing up month at school. I focused on students getting caught up but kept teaching for the most part until the end of the month. We learned about light and cosmology a bit toward the end as well as extinction and evolution for animals and plants on Earth.

After school was over, the girls and Tim started moving things from the apartment in Ko Olina Kai to the Fairways where next year Meg, Jocelyn and An will be living together. We moved everything in, sent everything home and sold everything off. Our apartment was empty of everything. Meg bought a car and so we tried to sell ours. We couldn't. In fact, we are still trying. To finish this story, I have to tell this one;

Our last day in Hawai'i Amy, Tim, Meg and Taylor went surfing at White Plains. We didn't know that there had been an earthquake in Japan, so we had to deal with 150 aftershocks worth of waves. It was very choppy, but Tim managed to stand up a few times. Amy and Meg however, got boards that were way too small and couldn't get anything going really. Well, after our hour of fun in the water and fighting the waves (by the way, we saw Creepy Matt! our neighbor from Makakilo Hills.), we lied on the beach for a bit and finally saw what we have been waiting to see since we heard about them! There was a Monk Seal swimming through right past us! It was super cute and VERY fast. Amy tried to run to get a picture of it, but like I said: very fast. Well, it was like O'ahu was saying goodbye to us, so we took it as a sign to go and start getting ready for our dinner at Roy's. So we left and headed home. At about 200 yards from Ko Olina, we were almost home, when the radiator blew and shot green liquid all over the windshield and smoke started to pour out from the hood. Meg and Taylor walked back to get a car and I called J. Trainer for some help. He happened to be on his way home to Makaha so he picked Amy and I up and we left the car there for pick up. We called every scrap metal and Kidney Foundation place on the island an no one wanted our car. We went back to the car and drove it back to Megan's new place and there it stays...waiting to be fixed/sold/given away.

And that's where we are with that even now, Megan called recently to tell us that it's been looked at and we tried to fix it a couple of times, but as of now, it's just not working out. Here's hopin'.

Well, aside from that debacle, we arrived home on the 18th and we had a few hours to get ready for Jay's bachelor party and get our tuxes for the wedding. Everything worked out for everyone but Richard whose shirt didn't fit. We went and got the suits, then headed for dinner and then up into Boston for some fun with Jason which consisted mostly of drinks, Jay puking and fun in a weight room. Good times. The next day was the rehearsal dinner, which Richard and Tim were late to because of the shirt and a tractor trailer flip on 128: they missed the rehearsal completely. BUT! We WERE there for the wedding (barely) and Jay and Tim got ready in his room and Rich got ready in his room and Woody got ready in his room. Tim had to teach all of them how to use the buttons in a tux as well as the cuff links.

The wedding was really amazing. Jay did well, said "I do," then we had some fun with pictures. I gotta tell you, though, the videographer was kind of creepy. I think he wanted Jay and T to make out. Very awkward. The dancing, drinking and good times at the reception were really amazing. It really got us excited for our wedding. Tim's best man speech got some good reactions. **Quick synopsis: made fun of Joe (Jay's mom's new husband), played off like he would be serious, said he saw J naked, commented on fictitious third nipple of Jason's, said he couldn't imagine being anywhere else at that moment, wished them good luck.**

Right after the wedding, the next great step in Tim's life began. He started working at PCC again. This time, he is a Master Teacher. Finally, he's come full circle and is teaching a subject he loves in the program that has been so good to and for him. The summer is almost over now with week 5 half way over, but it's been a lot of fun. The week is fun physics tricks and mind-blowing ideas and the weekends belong to the apartment in Southie that Amy and Tim have rented. We're in the process of building furniture and moving in, still looking for a car and trying to stay sane about the wedding.

All in all, we are holding up ok, so until PCC ends and married life begins....