Strange Pulse

When Daniel and I first got married (Feb ‘89), we lived in Hawaii for six months. We were sooooo young.

My favorite beach was Laniloa Beach. It was just down the road from us in Laie. All the BYU college students called it Bikini Beach, because it was secluded and they could wear bikinis there without getting caught. (BYU has a dress code which includes no bikinis.) This is me at Laniloa:

Nice belt, huh? I was 18 or 19. Daniel at Laniloa Beach:

My other favorite beach was Kailua Beach. It was a ways away, but we worked not too far from Kailua, so I went there a lot. Both of these beaches have houses right on the beach—like we’re basically standing in people’s yards. But all of the beaches in Hawaii are public. None are privately owned. So while people can sometimes build houses right on the beach, you can just walk right onto the beach any old time.

This is a picture of Laie Point. Daniel lived in a house out here the year before we got married, when he was attending BYU:

I took this picture from Laniloa Beach, or maybe it was from up on the Point, of a spear fisherman walking out on the reef one day:

I used to walk down to Laniloa after class (I went to BYU in Hawaii for a semester while we were there) and sit on the beach and do homework.

We bought this car, a Plymouth Scamp, for about $200. It was a rust bucket, but all the cars in Hawaii were. It’s so humid there. We had a lot of fun in this car, mainly because there was an exhaust leak and we’d get completely delirious while driving home from work at night. (Our drive was about 45 minutes.)

We rented a basement apartment to Daniel’s right in the picture above. In the picture below, it’s the bottom right part of the house:

My parents came for a visit once. I took this picture of Honolulu when my parents were visiting and we went up to Diamond Head. Actually, I can’t remember going up there, maybe they went without me and I gave them my camera.

Daniel’s parents came to Hawaii on their anniversary, so we got to hang out with them as well. Here I am with my in-laws:

Ah, to be young and in Hawaii…