04.25.08 Aloha Farewell Kareoke Songs For Lea

Sharing some photos of my Ceridian aloha farewell from my Ceridian Hawaiian Ohana -- They rented a Kareoke room, which is one of the past times that my Ceridian Ohana LOVES to do, and had all my favorite foods, especially my favorite, SpicyPork !! It was a blast singing songs with my co-workers !! I will miss them tremendously !!

04.25.08 Lea's Ceridian Aloha Kareoke Night

Below are some more pictures from the Aloha Kareoke farewell night -- I will truly miss them, and miss the long lunches - lol lol The entire group got me some very cool Hanu(hawaiian turtle) jewelry and this beautiful authentic Hawaiian Tapa tapestry !!! It is beautiful !! You will all see it, hanging at my new place back in CA for sures !! There was quite a few video clips too, of the Kareoke'ing for the night ...you will have to ask me, to see them... Hilarious!!

04.09.08 "ALOHA FAREWELL" from Nicholas & Nambe

"Meow, Meow" to Hawaii ~~ Big "Mahalo" to our mommy, for taking us on this Hawaii adventure with her ~~ We knew something was up, when we began to see boxes being wrapped up and especially, when the cat carriers came out of the closet, that we haven't seen in over a year ~~ Today, Wednesday, April 9th, is our last day here on the islands, and to say the least we are very sad (actually, not looking forward traveling on the plane again for over 5 hours!!) ~~ we will miss the tropical breeze and the island weather, but mommy has decided to relocate back to Cali ~~ We hope that our flight back tonight, won't be as bad as coming over here ~~ We cannot wait to see all of mommy's friends and having them all over for dinners /bbqs ~~ We know, our mommy is very sad right now... bringing us back officially, makes it a "reality" for her ~~ Mommy will be leaving us one last time in about 2 weeks from now, to come back and finalize her Hawaii ties (she's needs to ship our Honda-CRV back, of course!! ) Oh, but as you all know our mommy, she's going to go back and soak up the last of her "Island Sun" on the beaches of Waikiki - LOL LOL ~~ Hurry up mommy and finish your last trip back to Oahu & come back home to us in SoCal ~~
We bid our "Meow-Meow ALOHA" to the islands ~~see pictures below on our last day on the island ~~ we've had a "MEOW-marvelous" 13 month adventure in Hawaii !!!
~~ "ALOHA" with love, Nicholas & Nambe ~~

04.05.08 Lea's "Almost" Back to Cali

Aloha !!! I've had a few recent calls from a handful of you the past week, on "what is going on with Lea-when she moving back to Cali " OR "where is Lea", so wanted to get an update to this blog to all of you ~~~ Lea's Hawaii adventure has not ended as of yet !!! ~~ Feelin a bit bad, that I have not updated this blog for about 2 whole months --- but it has been very, very BUSY to say the least with everything..... I apologize now, for those that I was not able to see my last trip to the mainland last March .... my trip was primary to "finalize" where I'm going to plant myself when I return to Cali, in the middle of working as well. Have had a few visitors here on Oahu in Feb/March as well, which has kept me busy and getting to enjoy the island weather here – very, very tropical as usual. The weather back in the mainland definitely took an adjustment – I was FREEZING my butt off the whole time !!! On my birthday, I did have have a fabulous time on the Big Island (see pictures below) did a 8 mile hike, up thru the lush around the caledera, rim of one of the Kilauea Ika crater and then down in the caledera of the crater – it was an awesome day and what an experience !! Definitely, a must recommendation if you ever get a chance to visit the Big Island. Some other highlights of my visit to BigIsland, had gone to one of my favorite candy places that is “only” located on the Big Island called BigIsland Candies and went and checked out the MaunaLoa Macadamia Nut factory – very fun to go check out and came back on the plane with a carry on of BigIsland candies, Golden Macadamia Nut Brownies, my favorite !!!
With two major airlines closing this last week, I started to freak out a bit cause you just know, the flights to Hawaii now are going to skyrocket and I didn't want to have to pay big bucks for a RT airfare for the cats....So, I have decided to begin my relocation officially.... really, really "FINALIZE" where I will live, and its looking at North of Huntington Beach .... ( I know, I know, the Cali beaches is not Hawaii beaches, but knowing I can live by the beach, will make me very, very happy!!) When I was there in March, I looked at all areas of Manhattan, Redondo, Hermosa and even took a look at a few in Santa Monica area... But, for the most reasonable, and what the unit included, the unit in North HB was the final decision..... Depending on the availability of the airlines taking pets on my scheduled flight, Nicholas and Nambe may be be coming out as well ~~ I figure, get my kids(Nicholas & Nambe) back to Cali, then I will come back here to Hawaii and tie up all the loose ends, and of course, entertain a few more visitors & ENJOY my moments of the island tropical weather :) ;) :)
~~` I have posted more photos than usual, this time, so keep scroll down to view the photos of the past couple months.....(My winter tan looks pretty good eh?? ) Miss you all & I will be "officially" moved very, very, very soon !

Aloha~~~ Love you all, Lea, Nicholas & Nambe

02.28.08 Lea on her Birthday - Feb. 28th- on the Big Island

On my actual birthday, I was on the Big Island, and did an 8 mile hike, up the lush rain forest, around the rim of one of the volcano craters - It was awesome!! It was a great day, celebrating "how young I am" that I can still hike - lol lol Unfortunately, we did not see any actual lava flows, but did see many steam vents during the hike in the crater - enjoy the pics below :

02.28.08 More Kilauea Iki Volcano Crater Pics

Below are some pictures of the Kilauea Iki crater, that I hiked the around the rim - the crater that we hiked, is a smaller crater next to the bigger crater, Kilauea Volcano It was amazing!! Would recommend to see, if you ever get a chance to go visit the Big Island.

03.31.08 MIsc Pics from the Islands and Cali

Sharing some misc pics from Feb/March .........

03.15.08 Changes in my "Hawaii Implementation Ohana"

The past month has had some "changes" regarding my Ceridian Hawaii IC team... the first photo you see below, is the "LAST" full group Implementation team ... Two of my Hawaii co-wrkrs have decided to leave Ceridian for other opportunities within a week of each other in the month of March, in addition to my departure :( :( its been a very sad month in the hawaii district with loosing a total of 3 headcounts, including me..... My Hawaii Implementation team, I will NEVER forget...they have ALL been my "Hawaii Ohana" and have made my Hawaii experience exceptional !! The gathers we use to have, with potluck Hawaii foods & the Kare-oke outtings, I surely will miss..... I will be leaving my Hawaii family very, very soon, but guess what --- due to loosing 3 IC's within or department, Hawaii had requested for me to still be a Project Manager one of Hawaii's main newspaper accounts.. my LA boss approved --- go figure, I'm not "really" removed from the Hawaii accounts as of yet..... See recent pics below of my Ceridian Hawaii Ohana: