So, the video below was taken when my very bestist friend Lolly, who I've known since I was five years old and worshiped for being the coolest tomboy that ever lived, came to Hawaii to surprise me. She brought along a new friend - Kamila - who captured us surprising each other on this little snippet. You see I somehow figured out she was coming, so as she was sneaking up my road, I was inside waiting for her to pull up. One of the best parts of this story is that at the time, her two teenage boys were back in NY and she didn't want them to know she was so far away - for very obvious reasons - so she would call them each day and say she was probably on her way back from the shore that night and they would buy it!!! Hey anything to avoid high school house parties, right?! Needless to say, we had the greatest time ever and Kamila even ended up staying behind for a few extra days which cemented a new lifelong friendship among us :)
The ode to Kaulani part of this story is that the house that they, and countless other friends and family came to, is now in the hands of a new couple. Last friday they probably walked through the wooden screen door, across the shiny wood floors of the living room, past the built-in cabinets in the hallway and peeked inside each of the bedrooms with visions of a new life and new memories to be made. If the windows were open they would have smelled the salty trade winds that will save them from ever needing air conditioning, and when they dream at night they will hopefully feel the love and good times we have all shared between those walls. They will have fantastic neighbors who smile and wave across the lawns and at night it will be dark enough to spot all the brightest constellations overhead. ALOHA KAULANI - a very special island home!
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