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What a great day it was yesterday . When that light bulb went on at 430 AM and i saw Kathleen getting ready i decided to go to watch her do here Run Like A Diva 5 K run.  I have never went to watch people run around in a big group like this ... something like 2500 fitness freaks running around Honolulu . It was way too early but like i said most of them are freaks ... don't get me into it , LOL ! You honestly should have heard the announcer there i think she said WOO about 300 times and every time the crazy lady did it there was massive feedback HAHAHA.

We took a cab over to Ala Moana ( or whatever that area is near the mall ) and easily got one back. Once i arrived at the hotel room i contacted John only to find out that he went to scout the competition already . Knowing the other people at my hotel wanted to go for a cruise up to the North Shore i knocked on Andi & Toby's door and we went off ....first stop was the arena as it was on way north . We checked out the other A division game that was going on and then we got back on the road .

We pretty much drove aimlessly . Stopping randomly along the way to snap a few pics . The main place we really stopped at was Waimea Falls . It is a beautiful park with a waterfall in it ... honestly the $13 is a bit pricey to go walk through a park but i guess that is how it is ! I personally did not go into the water there as it was a glorified piss hole for children .... but it was beautiful . We stayed there for a good hour or longer , passing a lizard , a couple roosters and peacocks . The peacocks were absolutely magnificent . But this is not why i came to Hawaii , i came to play hockey !

We were hungry and everyone raved to me about stopping on the side of the roads to eat up in the North Shore ... well lets just say the people that told me must not know that i don't eat fish and every spot on the route was basically selling shrimp YUCK ! I was driving which meant our choice was McDonalds ;)

   I was getting kinda tired of driving as i had started the trek around 9 ish and we did not get back to our hotel until around 3 or so , which is when i shut it down and went to sleep .

I should have taken more pics at the rink and i will today ! When i woke up from my nap i got dressed and went to play our first game which was apparently vs. the team to beat . I THINK they are a bunch of firemen from Alberta with the team name Prime Evil . Finally i got to meet the rest of the team and see Tim & Vooch again , i met them both in Fussen, Germany this past year at yet another tournament . Pretty sure the other team had around 15 skaters to our 9 , but we had the better team . We beat them up pretty good with a 7-2 score :) i had the shutout until the 3rd period when i gave up a tip in goal that barely squeezed by me , followed closely by another nice goal that went off my blocker . The games here are long ! Periods are 20 minutes run time and there are 3 periods .... games take up most of 1.5 hours with flood between 2nd and 3rd periods . I don't want to say too much about what is going on as the tournament is continuing today and i don't want to jinx anything . It is almost 7 AM here now and we will be leaving for the arena in just over one hour for our second game which is vs. Cutters which i think is a local team ... game time 10 AM . Wish me luck ;)