December 20, 2005
We live in the most expensive part of the island of Hawai’i and thus the food and gas prices are absurd. Last week, when we arrived we went to Foodland in the Parker Ranch center to buy some groceries to keep us until we could go to Costco in Kona. We paid $5.99 for a half gallon of soymilk, yes, you heard me right. We also saw that a small box of Cheerios were $6 but we did not waste our money. We only spent $47 that day but that is mostly because we looked at what was on sale and only bought that. So, today we had to go to Kona to check on my TB results (I passed, of course) and so we went to Costco. The gas is 21 cents cheaper at Costco compared to the cheapest gas in Waimea. After that, we shopped around Costco and bought 25 lbs of bread flour for $4.99 total, which is less than what we paid for 2 lbs of flour at Foodland. We also bought 25 lbs of rice, 10 lbs of pancake batter, 3 half gallons of soymilk for $6 total, a giant box of 50 granola bars, a giant box of cheerios (at least 4 times bigger than the one at Foodland and cost less too!), giant box of Newman’s blueberry cereal, giant tins of tomato sauce (gallon size) for less than $2 each(!) and we bought a ton of pasta and other random things. I think we came out at about $90. If we bought it all at Foodland we would have spent a billion dollars, I bet.
On the way home, we saw this guy on a moped driving along the side of the road in Kona (coming from Costco) with a case of beer and chicken in his basket. It was funny…
We also got some books today, a juicer, and a random aloha shirt at Sal’s Boutique (Salvation Army). My juicer cost $8 and it is in perfect condition. It is just like my old juicer that cost about $75-80.
And who said living in Hawaii is expensive? I suppose it is if you are dumb enough to shop primarily at the grocery store in Waimea, love to buy gas at the most expensive place in town, must drive a $50K car, live right on the beach in a multi-million dollar home, and buy all new stuff all the time and only at the mall.
Oh yeah, in other news, I got a job. I will be working for Easter Seals helping developmentally disabled adults… Yay! 
Brian will be working at the University of Hawai’i and writing his book about Hawai’i.
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We move in just 16 hours and we are so thrilled and excited. I will post more later when we arrive in Hawai’i!
