Some Supercool stuff that happened to me since I moved here

Seeing a real live Sea Turtle

 As soon as I read in my guide book that there is a beach that turtles like to frequent, I knew I had to go there. Sure enough, I walk out of the car and there it is, a real live sea turtle, just swimmin' around doin' its thing and eating seaweed. I was in complete awe of this enourmous, gentle creature.

Running into Daniel Dae Kim

I went to the Korean Festival in Kapiolani park in Waikiki and ran into Daniel Dae Kim from LOST and Hawaii Five-O. He parked right behind me in his Prius and it took me a second to muster up the courage to talk to him, and what did I do? I chased him down a field and said "Scuse me, are you the guy from LOST?" What a moron I can be some times! Anyways, he agreed to take a picture with me :)

I almost got a part on Hawaii Five-O, Twice!

OK, so here is where I really have to kick myself. I show up at the casting office for CBS with my almost blank acting resume and headshot. I give it to the casting person and she's like, "Thanks, we'll call you if anything comes up". She looks at my head shot and says, actually perhaps you should meet with the director, her office is here to the left, just go in and introduce yourself". So the director asks me if I can work that Friday in a bank scene and asks me if I have a suit, like a moron (again!) I said I didn't. I want to kick myself so hard for not lying and going to buy one! I guess I was just too excited to even be talking to this woman and I think she may have also gotten a whiff of my nerves.  

The second time, they needed people for a night club scene and needed pictures of people in their club attire. So I send in my pic and sure enough I get a call back, great right? Well, until the lady asks me for my info and I'm like, "oh I already filled out an application, my name is....", and she's like, "oh yeah let me look for it and I'll call you back", never heard back. Oh well, guess it wasn't meant to be.

Found the set of Pirates of the Carribean: On Stranger Tides

 
I had heard rumors that Johnny Depp was on the island and in talking to some friends, they told me that earlier that day they were kayaking in Kaneohe Bay and they ran into the Black Pearl. Sure enough the next day I went out and found it, I was also hoping to get a glimpse of Johnny Depp, but they had wrapped up filming the day before :(

I went in a Shark Cage

 

This is a picture I took with an underwater camera. These are 3 ten foot Galapagos sharks. I went on the shark encounter tour by Hawaii's shark encounters and let me tell you, this was by far one of the best experiences in my life. I was kind of scared at first, but the guides helped me feel more comfortable and after a few minutes in the water I was just in awe by the majesty of these gentle (believe it or not) creature. There are many misconceptions about sharks actually, they are not as bad as the media hype puts them out to be and they are actually endangered.

I found a waterfall where LOST was filmed

I don't know about you guys, buy I was and still am, a LOST fanatic. I was so excited to come to Hawaii and scope out areas where the show was filmed. Aside form the TV show, I find it amazing that you can walk 5 minutes from a major highway and find yourself in a jungle with an amazing waterfall and hundreds of blood sucking mosquitoes. Thank goodness for DEET! You might get bored of the fact that I keep finding myself in awe of stuff, but some of these things are truly amazing. I have never seen a land quite like this, and I've done my fair share of traveling abroad.

I witnessed my first Hawaiian Sunset on the beach

I was in awe, just kidding, but I was pretty darn amazed. It is as close as feeling as you are in a postcard as it gets. Too beautiful to describe and my camera didn't do it justice.