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word up.
off to the beach in abit with some chums, later tonight off to honolulu to try and get tickets for MGMT who are playing there tonight. rather excited!
last few days have been mint, staying in a place on the northish shore called la'ie with some guys i met on the kalalau trail. we cruise around all day going to beaches, snorkel and body surf and generally jest around to the max!
yesterday got up at 3am to do this hike called stairway to heaven. over 4000 steps and 8,000ft up. i have a mint arse from all that exercise [and rather sore knees]. its sort of illegal to do it so we had to climb over some wire fences then follow a little path under the freeway. its a residential area where you go in and all the neighbours get majorly cheesed, we found out why after we set off a load of dogs barking and a cockrel crowing at about 4am. started off the steps to some major leg burn and dodgey belly but made it to the 1st platform to see the sun rise, yet when we got to the top it was cloudy and couldnt see a think. the top of it has some old abandoned WWII buildings with 2 huge dishes on top, it was used for submarine communications apparently. met some old dude up there who was telling us the US army hired a swiss mountaineer to blaze a route up which took him 3weeks then they put in the stairs and then brought up winches and concrete. must have been the worst job ever, huge huge drops on either side of ridges only a few ft wide and most of the climb almost vertical. walk down was abit dodgy in places where you could just see the ground thousands of ft below and just a little metal rail keeping you up!

other than that mainly been hanging out. been really cool living with the boys. theres about 7 or 8 people in the house, all of them mormon. all of them totally altered my perception of mormons. most of them here are really open minded, none judgemental and up for discussing everything. none of them drink, do drugs, have sex, smoke or drink caffeine which at first sounds super boring, yet when you actually get to know them and hang out its pretty obvious that not having those things doesn't stop you having fun at all and that missing booze and drugs actually makes people more up for doing varied and interesting things.

oh new favourite thing is pounders beach. its a beach just down from here where the waves smash you up pretty good. we've been going there to body surf and muck about. so much sliding down the side of a wave then getting barrelled and smashed up and spun upside down underwater. ace!

oh some women drove her car off a cliff into the sea at the end of the road we're on. pretty sad. pretty mental.