7 Kailuana Place

This is the story of how and why we came to be at 7 Kailuana Place.

A month before Ryan and I were married, Melissa, Ry's sister, planted the seed of a dreamy and tropical idea into our twitterpated brains.  She moved to Hawaii at the start of 2012 to give live-in care to the mother of one of her professors who lives here.  Melissa was planning to return to Idaho for fall semester, and suggested we take her place here--horrible idea, right?  At first, we joked about how much irresponsible fun we could have on the enchanted isle and what kind of adventures surely awaited us there.  One thing led to another (I went swimsuit shopping and Ry watched youtube movies on spearfishing), and things started to fall into place.  Ry was finishing up a business internship in St. George at the end of summer, which is when Melissa would be returning to school, so the timing was perfect.  Since Ry just graduated, we figured he could look for a job in Salt Lake, Hawaii, London, Paris or NY (this is an exhaustive list of places we were willing to settle down), so we thought, "why not Hawaii?!".  We moved out here with the intent to stay a year and save up some cash money, and then invest in a flat in Kensington.  Or maybe a single family home in South Jordan (Draper if Ry was typing this).  Either way, one major perk to the job was rent & food included!  With that in mind, we packed up our 3 checked bags, each weighing fifty pounds, and fifty pounds exactly, and boarded a one way flight to Honolulu.  We have now been living on the most secluded island of all the islands on planet earth in the town of Kailua for 7 weeks, having every kind of irresponsible fun we could have imagined, and every day having an adventure!