Coming Home

I am so excited to get to come home for 2 weeks the first part of Nov.  I know that as usual it will be filled with lots of driving to see friends, and I hope some great time with my parents.  I am ready to see familiar faces.  Dominic will stay here, well he will probably go on a mission to South America, to be the translator for the trip.  Yes my honey is latino!  I know!  So cute!!  

I am really boring so I thought I would put together a list of differences between OK and HI:

At home I don't:

Pay for parking to go to Chilies', or really any other restaurant.

Pay over $4 for gas

Get to wear my bathing suit to dinner out

Have to sit in traffic at any hour of the day, not just at rush hour

Don't have to show an ID to get to work

Feel like my height is average...there are so many asians here that I feel like I just fit right in being short, now if I could just have brown skin and straight brown hair.....

Wait to go food shopping with Dom because cereal is $6, and milk is $9 off base!!!!  It is unreal!!!

Get to go to the beach with some good friends on our days off.

Have to find street parking to go visit friends, or pay to park in their parking garage

Get great plate lunches for lunch (a full lunch :chicken or seafood, rice and salad all crammed on a to go styrofome plate).  But oh so yummy!!

These are just a few things I can think of to show you the difference.  Most days I feel like i am in a different country.  But I have really come to love where I live.  The culture is fascinating, the food is wonderful, and it is definitely all in who you know.  Relationships are huge here.  

I hope that you guys are having a great night!!