Wow, last night was rainy! My phone got another taste of water and my neck got to taste the sourness from camping for a change. Thinking of how to make it back to Hilo, made my entire head feel sour! Pheeew, not the most comfortable morning.. breakfast was goodthough. A family came to fish shrimp in the river and they offered us coconuts as an addition to our poor meal. It felt great to drink fresh, it was our firstrefill of waterin a couple of days. When done drinking from the coconut we filled one of our empty water bottles with the rest. It was pretty cool. Like a survival TV show moment on Discovery Channel. I like the coconut meat (Corey, not so much). I like the fact that the flavour of coconut is weakerthen the dried out coconut you buy at the store. It fills you up pretty well too, I've mentioned earlier how I've had coconut only, to breakfast.
We say good bye to the horses, who follows us a biton the way, and start our hike back tothe ginormeous hill. No joke, we we'rent hiking this thing if we didn't have to. Waited around for a little bit and sure enough, we got a ride (and some waterbottles!) to the top.Oh my, what would we have done without all the nice peopleon the road?!
A few more short hitches and we were back out on the 'main road'. We decided to try todays hitch luck before waiting for the bus. A little trickier today.In shorts and bikini, we made a hilo sign from my flight tickets and put on some cheer leading moves on the side of the road to get attention (Corey without the bikini of course). People drove by laughing with thumbs up, my friend got a little frustrated, wich made me find our cool moves and the situaton a little bit extra funny (I blame the sun and lack of water?). We had to actually 'work' for a hitch this time so to say. The sun was hot hot hot and the asfalt was burning under our feet. My gymshoes were wet from hanging outside during the rainy night and my flips were, like mentioned earlier, left behind in another valley. A nice girl finally pulls over and we cramp up in her old car. She had one of those 'hippie vans' and I took the trunk faster then fast, just so I could check out all her cool stuff!
Backin Hilo, we ended up, cause of my stubburness in a discoussion, in a new beach park. Best thing that could ever happen to us! here we met a hawaiian family who was catering a birthday party - and their own little family party on the beach. Sherrie and her family offered us to try all this crazy food and we stayed with them for the rest of the day. It was amazing! The food was delicious! They also offered to watch our packing while swimming before sunset, and I found a obanded pair of flips! Was it my lucky day or what?
it started to rain and when the darkness fell, they lend Corey a sweater, refilled our food and drinks, invited us to keep playing cards and we shared so many laughs and stories through out the night. fun things have to come to an end and technically the park was closing, so our new hawaiian aunts, uncles and Nanas and Papas, felt super bad about leaving us. We told them not to, we felt so lucky to have shared our afternoon with them. We tried to convince them we were fine and they tried to give us tons safety information about the new beach. We thanked them again and said that we would be fine. Well, the best thing with family and friends: they want to keep you safe. All their plans changed and they threw our packs in Ilenes car and drove us to Nanas and Papas friends house. Turns out they were house sitting and they let us stay in the house just like that! We would have roof over our heads, rinning water - hot showers! and BEDS! We were overwhelmed and so thankful that they would leave us, strangers, in a house! Imagine that people! Would never happen were I come from. Not just only that, they left us with all the catering food and they scheduled us for pick up in the morning so that we could get rides for breakfast, souvenir shopping, and then for a ride to the air port. I can't tell you all how much this meant to us, Nana, Papa, Sherrie, John, Ileene with families. Thank you again! Our last day in Hilo, was amazing!
