day 10

texarkana, texas, to memphis, tennessee, 307 miles.
starting today, olivia will be adding to the blog. so we'll separate it as FROM SCOTT and FROM OLIVIA. enjoy.
FROM SCOTT
blasted through arkansas to get to memphis so i could meet olivia's flight. so naturally i arrived in memphis before she even left seattle. it's no fun being on the interstates. they serve a purpose, but it's only to get from one place to another, not to see or do anything along the way. lots of history in arkansas. some of the city names reek of history: little rock, pocahontas, arkadelphia, fort smith. one of the day's bigger smiles was reserved for a gas stop in arkansas -- $3.89 per gallon. arkansas also was much greener than texas; lots of fields of corn and hay; lots of rivers. crossed the mississippi just west of memphis. nice river. big. as big as its history. best roadside sign of the day, particularly considering olivia's arrival: "use the rod on your children and save their life." hey, liv, come here, let me save your life. i drove a little faster after i saw that sign; that area wasn't one i wanted to linger in. only saw one elvis impersonator in training at the airport, but that was ok. it had a starbucks. the best part of the day was olivia's arrival. she had a nice hawaiian tan, though i believe my top-down tan is darker. she had a good week in hawaii, and now we'll have a couple of good weeks on the road.
FROM OLIVIA(who's tan is much betterrrrr)
So.......... sheesh. im suppossed to put everything ive done this week with my phone vibrating constantly cause all my friends want to talk to me.. at the moment. i have 10 unread text all occuring in the last 2-5 min. haha ok so.Day 1. i went to Hawaii.. nothing really ummm exciting happened.. unless you count flying over the hugestestest ocean ever for like 5 hours exciting.. i sure dont.Oh! but i just remembered.. i had to spend a night in San. Fran. cus our flight from seattle to Sanfran was delayed cus' of smoke.... and so our flight to Kona. LEFT WITHOUT US! how rudeeeee.... haha so we got to Kona, got our car and...... got caught in traffic. yeah i know! i mean why would an island have traffic?!?!?!?!?!?!?! i still havent figured it out. the next day we went to this AMAZING BEACH called Hapuna Beach... google it. youll be glad you did. anyway it had great boogieboarding waves... so great i forgott to re-apply my sunscreen... whoopsies. haah needless to say i looked like a tomato... and i felt like a fire. OW! haha so day 3.. i cant even remember what we did.. im gonna look at the letter i wrote to remember.. one sec. i need to go get it. ok. so day three. I went to the rehersal dinner for the wedding i was at Kona for.. it was pretty funny.. because they had this watermelon.. but it was spiked... but i didnt figure that out until i had had like 5. needless to say... i stopped immediately. haha that was all i did day three.. besides hanging out in the pool with my cousin.. and watching the surfers. hahahhaahahhahaha yay! Day 4 was the Wedding... kinda like all the other weddings ive ever gone to................... but. i did go to a beach again.. on the road from down below.. basically it was a lava road... that was just a little smoothed ou. it was not a good road.. specially if you're in a dodge charger. oh well day 5 was the Luau.. purddy fun! they had some good food.. some not so good food.. i ate it anyway.. (what can i say? i was hungry!!!!) they had a fire thrower juggler person.. it was cool! haha day 5. i went snorkeling at a reallllly cool and pretty bay. that was all i did. day 6. i drove around the island... from 830-830. we saw cool stuff and went to the volcano.. while it was erupting.. even more purddyyy cool. haha. day 7. i dropped my sister off at a farm.. and headed home.. day 8 Emi came over.. really early this morning.. like 7! haha we played rockband until she had to go.... then i went to the airport.. and guess who i saw there... EMI!!!!!!!! haha i swear she stalks me. oh well.. haha i also got to call jeff today! so i was happy.. anyway..im gonna go to reply to my texts now.. so umm buh-bye?
TOMORROW, memphis to as far as we get in alabama before we crash for the night.