It’s been two and half weeks since we got to Seattle. It’s now officially the longest I have been away from Hawaii since living there. I can tell you honesty, I do not miss Hawaii…yet. I could tell you about the folks and family I miss…not to mention I can’t find ume maki anywhere here and sushi in general is expensive!

So from living in a hotel to the very welcoming home of the homies Geo and Chera, we have now found our home on Beacon Hill. Which is what I would kind of like to describe as the Kaimuki of Seattle but maybe better? I have a tendency to like the “Kaimuki Areas” of cities since I could consider Richmond/Sunset to kinda of like that as well.

I could tell you all about Seattle but I wanted to say Aloha Hawaii. I’ve been wanting to leave Hawaii so long that I always imagined my last month would be laying on the beach everyday, BBQing with homies, hiking and other ridiculous paradise activities we often make fun of tourist fantasizing about but secretly wish in our working days we could do. Turns out the last month was a bloody mess with packing, moving, selling, packing up the whole life to move across the ocean, which moving already sucks but moving across the ocean sucks even more. Then I came to the conclusion that I have been living this life all 14 years and ESPECIALLY  the last year along the with G.P.S. (grown people shit)

So if you happen to see yourself or something that strikes your memory in these photos, it’s probably because we made a memory together, you have showed me some kind of kindness, humility, something unforgettable, admirable  or I just plain love you and want to thank you for making that chapter in my life what it is. ESPECIALLY the last year.

Here are some photos I went thru in the month of March, April and May of 2009 in Hawaii. (This is before my photos got better and some are Aarons) Clips of certain places, places in time, people, things and life in Hawaii.

Thank you. I love you. I remember you.