Our First Day in Hawaii!!!

Wow! I cant believe we finally made it here!!! After a LONG plane ride and a small amount of casualties (as in two cameras, an MP3 player, a phone charger and a book) we are here in Oahu at the Kaneohe Church of the Nazarene leading our first worship session tonight for about 2 hours!!! Thankfully George is here to keep us together and I know we are going to have a blast!

Today the band got a chance to go and hang out at North Shore with Byron one of the interns here who is a student/friend from PLNU. We soaked up the sun then headed over to Kua'aina-the BEST burger place on North Shore and had some Avacado burgers :-) Then we went and got some Shave Ice and headed back to get ready for our service tonight. We had about 20 minutes to shower from the beach then head back to the church...in the process I burnt my pointer finger on my hair straightner and am currently "chicken pecking" with my right hand while keeping my left finger on an ice pack! I probably look so silly haha!

If I was as cool as Meg, I would be able to post videos, but lets's face it, it is just never going to happen without her help because I dont know how this whole thing works!!! Tomorrow morning we will be heading over to the Jr High camp here on Oahu and will be "working" there until Wed. Our schedule is basically "George said that we will be at some camp sometime in the afternoon and will be there for about 3-5 days." I am working on letting go and accepting that I cannot and willnot be in control of our schedule this summer and I am going to be ok with that. Maybe I will come back a completely unplanned girl...NOT!!!

(This is Megg intervening for your photographic convenience!)
Below is Waemae (sp?) Bay on Oahu where we spent our free day!


There's nothin like Matsumotos famous Shave Ice... but the lines always too long so we went next door to Aokis... just as yummy!


Well let me tell you that these last few days has been full of laughter and there have been many occasions that I was hurting from laughter minutes after the funny moment. Anthony (our electric guitar player) and Meg (our other girl singer) have the funniest relationship. Meg claims to be a ninja and Anthony will have none of it and is constantly spitting back sarcastic remarks at Meg providing some great entertainment for me. Amo (or Evan our bass player) come across as a very reserved guy, but when he does open his mouth he always has something great to say...most of his phrases going into our quote book, which we should post soon :-)

Taylor (or Robbie-our drummer) is so full of life and so fun to tease. We even convinced him that egg shells are full of protien and he almost started chowin down haha! Kendall, our fearless band leader is a wuss and doesnt like sand so he missed out on all of the laughter today, but we still have shared some good memories. On the plane ride from SD to SF yesterday all either of us remember is eating peanut butter pretzles and then waking up in SF! We fell asleep happily with a handful of pretzles and next thing you knew we were there!

Jameson and George (our sound guy and overall "Big Man") have had plently of bonding this trip and are pulling us all together with their technical and musical abilities. Ok, well that is the overview of the band so far...OH! And for those of you who knew, we were struggling to find a nickname for either Kendall Johnson or I since it has been confusing having two Kendalls, and we finally found one that seems to have stuck...this summer I will be known fondly as "GK' short for "Girl Kendall." I like it and it is a good solution to our problem!

Ok got to run! Time to sing!!! Love you all!!! xoxox

GK (aka Girl Kendall, birthname: Kendall Richardson)
P.S.
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