Iolani Palace

Here are some Pics of Iolani Palace, which is the only Royal palace in the US.

They had a King and Queen I think till like the 1930's.

King and Queen went down in a kinda shady bad way...that will be a history lesson for another day.

This place is in downtown Honolulu, near chinatown.

I finally walking around it the other day and took some pics for your viewing pleasure.

Continuing to settle in, weeks are flying by right now.

Gonna take St. Patrick's day off, should be fun seeing there are two irish bars on the whole island chain.

Gonna do some exploring on the weekend since it will be a longer one for me.

My girl roomate Chanida has left for the mainland for like a week, my guy roomate Michael has severe anxiety disorder and cannot sleep alone, (no seriously) So I basically have to make sure that I am home with him or schedule outings together because he cannot be alone, I will sleep with my door open and the lights on tonight to make sure he is ok....we'll probably end up spooning later....LOL

It's so funny, my roomates are both very nice and pretty cool for the most part, but that each have like massive phobias and anxieties....she is actually a Pyschiatrist so it's ironic that she would date someone that needs to be medicated frequently. She just went into a tizzy screaming my name (I alwasy think she is yelling at me, but that is her normal tone since she is from Thailand, but she is very well educated and is very much american on most fronts....) anyways she is screaming prior to departure for the airport, one of the little Gecko lizard things that live all around our walkway managed to sneak into her car and get himself into the heating vents on the dash....... she cannot handle the gecko, the gecko is the bane of her childhood.

think me with a spider but much much worse.

so we are searching the car trying to find the thing, and she has to drive to the airport because Michael cannot drive on the hwy (anxiety) can't go over bridges and all sorts of special rules that he must follow, (again I'm not making any of this up)

So she can't drive because if the Gecko would show it's face it would be all over.

So they argue in the driveway about me driving so she can sit in the backseat, but she is screaming what if it got into the backseat, you guys might not have seen it move past you, I think it's in my pocket book in the back seat.

I'm just laughing at both of their internal mind traps going toe to toe....

they end up taking another car.

the GECKO was never to be found.

I'm exhausted over a very very long night last night and I just need to sleep, but I must wait for his return so I can safely manage his condition.

P.S. neither one of them can have alcohol or coffee.

the good part of this, is that Michael will have to show me around some more, or I'll threaten to leave him by his loneself.....ah leverage.