Wednesday June 30th, part 2.

Dictated by Abby to Liz

The breakfast downstairs in the hotel lobby was very good. They had Hawaiian cheerios, which mom called Froot Loops.

Then we goed out and we got the keys to house and then we goed there. There is no upstairs and that is OK because sometimes it takes too long to go upstairs and you are in a hurry.

We went to get lunch at a Korean restaurant that is very close to our house. And then we went to the bank to start an account in Hawaii. We went to my new school and signed me up. They will say a week before school starts what class I am in. And then we went to the shopping mall and bought a lot of stuff for the kitchen and also mattresses to sleep on.

These new pictures are of Abby at her new school! We have heard great things about it from everyone we have talked to.

We ate dinner at a Shabu-shabu restaurant that is also very close to our new house. You get to pick out what you want to cook in a big soup pot. And then we comed home and goed to sleep.

From Liz:
We also saw the lab today. It is right on the water and you can see Diamondhead from the lab windows. It is stunning. That was the good news. The not so good news is that all our boxes with clothes, sheets, towels, etc. were supposed to be there already and none have showed up yet.
Addition: I have posted some pictures here. The building shown in these pictures is the lab where Steve and I will be working. The other pictures are the view from outside the lab!! Stunning!
Other good news is that there are places here to shop to buy the things that we need. The not so good news is that it is going to take a week for our new mattresses to get to our house - they make them to order (here on Oahu) and it takes a few days....I feel like I should have thought about that before and pre-ordered them from Swarthmore. Oh well.....

The house is great, although currently quite UNfurnished. The location is also quite good - there is a large grocery store, drugstore and lots of restaurants in a shopping center walking distance from the house.

Also: very sad not to have even a single emergency contact to list on Abby's school information form. Obviously, we hope not to need such a thing, but pretty striking to realize that we really know no one to list for this sort of thing. We are enjoying our adventure, but do miss our friends and family already!