Now we're official!

After checking out more than 12 apartments and "cute" cottages - some under the freeway, some with stained carpet and one in a neighborhood we were strongly warned to stay away from, we found our Hawaiian home. It's a small but very clean apartment with a fabulous view and a kick-ass roof deck with a 360 view of Honolulu. Now, don't you want to visit?

To celebrate the signing of our lease, we went to a really good brewery restaurant with live music called Brew Moon. Bryan got to chatting with the musicians and was asked to join them on stage for a song of his choice. The crowd loved it and now we feel like we have six new Hawaiian musician friends. Check him out, he's in the center in the white shirt and white skin. :)

Next up after the lease signing was bed shopping. No fun. Somehow, it was even more stressful than apartment hunting. After years of fairly crappy beds in San Francisco, how are we suppose to know what we like in a new bed? We hit up four stores including trusty Costco (see pic for Bryan catching z's in the aisle). We probably tried out 15 of them and finally chose the best one that would be available tomorrow when we move it. According to the sales lady, we'll love it. We'll see.

Finally, we took some time to play tourists. The weather sucks, all relative, of course. We took advantage of the cooler temps and wind to climb Diamond Head. From the top, you get a really good view of Honolulu.

Tomorrow morning we officially get to move in so we'll send pictures once we're in there with our one piece of furniture - our bed.