Oh Paradise... What happened?

Paradise... What a word. Too bad this is beginning to be anything but.

THE BUS system? Not my favorite. I spent both Friday and Saturday dealing with the dumb system. Friday me and my friend went to Walmart to buy us bikes. Well, we rode THE BUS, and it seemed easy enough. So we just waited at the stop and then got on THE BUS. We rode THE BUS hoping that maybe it would make it to the Walmart. After asking a couple of people, and riding the bus for forever we found our stop. After we got off we walked, and walked, and after asking 3 different people, and getting slightly different directions from each we finally made it. We bought our bikes, and then after getting some food we went back to the bus stop. Then we waited and waited and waited, and eventually THE BUS came. After a long bus ride home we finally made it.

On Saturday, after we watched General Conference, me and my same friend decided to go rock climbing at the Volcanic Rock Gym. We got to THE BUS stop and waited for forever in the hot hot heat. We caught THE BUS and road and road until we passed Mililani, the same town with the Walmart, and then kept going because we knew the gym was just a couple of towns over. So we kept going, and then after we were on the freeway we saw an exit for the exact rode we wanted to take and then we passed it... So D went and talked to THE BUS driver, and we learned we were suppose to transfer onto another bus. So we got off at the next stop and waited for the transfer. We were told we could catch the 40, 42, or the 62, and so after waiting and talking to another guy at the bus stop, we say a 42, so we put our bikes on the rack, and asked the driver if he was going to where we were trying to get, and he told us no.  So we got off, and took off our bikes, and then sat back down... And waited and waited and waited. Then a 62 came, and we got on, and were good to go. So we rode all the way to the road we needed to be at and then got off. Then we got to a gas station to make sure we knew exactly where we were going, and then off we went. We had a great time rock climbing and boldering. After a couple of hours we decided to catch THE BUS. So we rode our bikes back toTHE BUS stop and waited and waited. Then THE BUS came and off we went. We got off in Mililani to catch our transfer, and had to get change from a McDonald's. We got change thinking we still had about 20 minutes, and it only took us about 5 minutes. So then we got back to the stop... And we missed it. So we decided to get some dinner since we still had about and hour and a half until the buses stopped running... So we ate and then went to THE BUS stop and waited and waited and waited and a bus came about an hour later... And there wasn't room for our bikes, so we were told to wait for the next bus. So we waited and then decided that may have been the last bus. So we called the bus information number, and they said that was in fact the last bus... We were stranded.

We started to think about what we could do, and we road our bikes down the road hoping to find the Walmart or the shopping center. No luck. We started to make some phone calls to see if anyone could come and get us... No luck. Then we called my roommate, and she started to pull some strings. After we rode back up the hill I saw a shopping center just behind a gas station and luckily there we found a bike rack, and a 24 hour fitness place. There was also a foodland that was open for the next couple of hours. We pottied, and then we waited. After a while, our roommate had scored a ride. Then  we learned that there were two other girls from BYU-H who were stranded in the same town. We were told to stay put while they found us. Eventually they did, and we waited for our ride. After about 6 hours of craziness we finally made it home, at 2 in the morning.

This morning we woke up to watch General Conference. In between the morning and afternoon session I got an e-mail from my mom...

TO BE CONTINUED...