last day in Oahu

So it is the last day in Paradise. Tomorrow we travel and I start to work on Monday. Monday is just to show me around and Tuesday is the first day of work. But Monday is the first day I have to be somewhere on time in a long time, if you don't count church. So my retired days are over for a season.

So we moved. I'd like to tell you something funny about that, but it wasn't funny. It was hard and horrifying. Lisa said that when they moved here she could only take two suitcases full. I know exactly how she felt, Gordon only let me take two trailers and a twenty six foot UHaul truck, and another trailer. It was hell.

Our house that we found to rent is amazing,see pictures from Amy. We are not believing our luck. It is huge and has views from every side. The lake and marina are right out the back and we watch what the simple folk do anytime we care to sit down and look.

One bad thing is that we assumed that if it is lighter outside than inside we were not visible to the boats and campers. Alas tis not true as we found out when Josh and Amy came to visit and we stood down at the lake and looked up at the house. It is like living in a fish bowl. Trust me there is a lot less for the tourist to see since then.
Anyway, living in Oregon hasn't sunk in yet. We have spent most of our time unpacking and seeing to the details of setting up house keeping in a new place. Don't you just hate the first few times you are cooking or cleaning and running on muscle memory, when you reach down to open a cabinet and it's a drawer instead or you reach for tooth paste and come up with hair gel because nothing is in the right place.
Just getting hooked back into cyberspace took a week. We had no phone, TV, or computer for the first two weeks. In order to call anyone, we had to take the cell phone four miles toward town to get a signal. So we ate a lot of junk food listening to elevator music and an intermittent female voice assuring us that our phone call is important to them so we should hang on.
I went thru serious withdrawal symptoms with no one to talk to but Gord. I apparently spend a lot of time talking to friends and family on the phone everyday. Gordon began to look terrified, every time I insisted he put down his book and respond appropriately to the conversation. He has this semi permenent round eyed horrified "who me?' look on his face a lot.
Good thing we got to go to Hawaii. He has read two and a half books since April is here to talk to me. Tyler volunteered to go to Iraq in January and got a chance to train for two weeks in the Islands. So we chipped in an extra $200 for a second bedroom, the government is paying for the rest, which means that you dear tax payers are footing our bill, thank you most gratefully. And we cashed in our credit card miles for the airline ticket so it is a cheap two week break. The best part is that everyone we have talked to is pea green with jealousy and I haven't felt that since we moved to Taft. I like it.
I was going to write more, but it will wait til we are back over looking the lake. I think I will take a short swim now before we go to Lsa's house for dinner. love t