Happy July 4th!
Posted by Amber , Friday, July 4, 2008 Friday, July 04, 2008
We want to wish everyone a Happy 4th of July! I hope you all have a great day.
A couple days ago Ben got a call from Ron (the guy that did the lease on our unit) and was told that our neighbors below us complained about noise. BUMMER! We try to be quiet and courteous because we know what it is like to live near loud and obnoxious people. Now we are those people?! When Ben told me this, we tried to think of everything we may have done to cause an issue. Maybe it was when we were building the cabinet that holds the TV at 8:30 p.m., or if we were playing our movies too loud, or when Ben sat out on the lanai taking phone calls in the evening, or maybe it is our small little one year old that doesn't walk, but RUNS everywhere and falls all the time! So Ben thought the good thing to do would be go down and introduce ourselves and apologize for the noise, and to let them know we will try extra hard to keep quiet. I have seen the guy that lives down there, he is huge and scary looking! And Ben didn't understand why I was nervous to go over. Well, we went down and guess who opened the door? Yes the husband... well he was super nice. His wife wasn't able to come to the door, so we just talked with the husband. After that I felt better about the situation. The next day, the wife came over and gave us these flowers. How nice! She told Ben that the noise was loud walking? I am still not sure if it is Noah just running around or if Ben and I were walking to hard. Anyway, now we know and they know we are not trying to be rude. People are indeed friendlier in Hawaii.
News:
~I forgot to tell everyone this, but the very first time we drove into town, Ben let this guy turn in front of us and he threw out the Shaka sign! For those that don't know, Shaka is the hand gesture where the thumb and pinkie finger are out and the other three are curled down. It is a sign of greeting, or just to say 'Hey', but this situation, he was like "Hey dude, thanks!" Anyway, it was pretty exciting. What a way to get greeted the first time here.
~We went to a black sands beach yesterday with Noah. He was terrified of the water. This is odd because he usually loves the water. I sat on the beach with him on my lap, and as the water would come up and hit us he would cry. After 5 minutes or so, he got used to the fact that the water moved more than what he was used to and calmed down. He even let me take him into the water for a bit. He wouldn't let Ben hold him though, maybe because in the swimming pool, Ben always lets him fall in submerging his whole face.
That's all for now!
Aloha.
Things seem to be getting better for you. Bummer about the neighors, but it was good you guys talked. Oh man, not looking forward to the apartment living again... So yeah, ment to tell you, the rule of thumb out there is you pretty much don't use your horn. Pay attention and you may notice it. It's just rude to the locals. Well, have fun. See you in 4 weeks!