Get your PENS ready!

We have an ADDRESS!!

44-707 Puamohala St.

Apt. 305

Kaneohe, HI 96744

We went to breakfast on friday morning planning another day of house-hunting when the phone rang... WE WERE APPROVED and ready to sign the lease for the apartment we were hoping for later that morning!

I know we said we were going to live in Kailua, but we practically do. Kaneohe is the next town over and we actually live on the road that goes between them. We are 5 minutes from downtown Kaneohe which has more shopping and restaurants, condo buildings, and activity... and about 8 minutes to Kailua beach park.... aka PARADISE.

Our apartment is in a building on a hill that's about a block from Kaneohe Bay. Our view from the third floor lanai is of the entire bay, some of the Pali (cliffs), the Marine Corps Base on the far side of the bay, and the entire Pacific beyond it all! The view sold the apartment.

It's a one bedroom with a decent sized living room that flows into the kitchen with a short partition so it feels like 2 rooms. The price is perfect and our Super is the most wonderful and giving Christian woman we've ever met! She offered us her car until we find one and she gave us her air mattress with blankets until we find a bed (hopefully we won't need either if our luck continues like this!).

We're really excited but now we have the task of furnishing the entire thing. There's so much turnover here on the island that there's garage sales, moving sales and Craigslist GALORE for anything and everything you could need.

Saturday we did some garage sale-ing and then Wal-Mart-ing but feel like we barely put a dent in what we need. No worries though, plenty of time and no shortage of stuff available...