A MUST READ FOR COUPLES HEADING TO OAHU IN APRIL!!

So the weather has been picture perfect. Our trade winds are back, the skies are blue, and the temperature has been a steady 85 degrees. Picture perfect yes...BUT, don't go in the water off Waikiki. Yes, DON'T GO IN THE WATER OFF OF WAIKIKI. That includes Ala Moana Beach, Magic Island, and down the coast to Waikiki. Don't even play in the sand near these beaches as they are highly contaminated!!!

THE REASON?

Well, during the storms the sewer system in Waikiki failed and the City actually decided to dump raw sewage into the Ala Wai Canal, a canal that leads directly to the ocean. The result, a highly polluted beach and ocean 1000 times the norm. The City and State were very slow in putting warning signs up on the beach, and people have been getting sick. Just recently, a young 30 year old man, fell into the Ala Moana Harbor and contracted the flesh eating virus. The Department of Health came out and said that there is no connection between the flesh eating virus and the sewage spill and rise in sickness, which have been proven to be bacteria associated with fecal matter. So that leads me to believe one or two things: They are complete idiots over there, or not warning the public about the contamination was purely a move to save tourism. A spokesman for the department of health actually came on the news and said that the contanmination could have been caused by a bird crapping in the ocean. Oh.....but what about the 40 million tons of raw sewage that they poured in there....nah....that has nothing to do with it.

Click here to go to the article on the man whose fighting for his life from falling into the contaminated water. They already amputated a leg of his. The doctors said they may have to cut off all of his limbs to save him. That's really really sad.

Anyway, the trick here is to not go into the water off of Waikiki, or to go on the sand on the beach until the month of May. If you do that, you should be a.o.k.

MOVIE REVIEW!!!

THE AND MORE PART....

Well, before I begin on the usual wedding blog, let me first get a few things off my chest. First of all...to everyone who has been sending me "belated bithday wishes" thank you very much! I really do appreciate it.

Twenty-nine, that's a really big number for me, and turning this age is actually quite stunning. A groom who recently booked with my company, told me not to worry about twenty-nine, it's thirty that's the big number. From what I've heard though is that thirty is the new twenty, and forty is the new thirty as people are living longer and the world is just a much different place that it was a few decades ago.

I also think age is also a maturity thing and not a number. I've met fifty year olds who have the maturity of an eighteen year old; those who are not living responsibly, not investing, and unemployed...And I've met twenty year olds who have the maturity of a forty year old; those who posses an incredible knowledge of politics, who are business savy, and who live very responsibly.

I'm much of the latter person. I remember hanging out with forty year olds when I was in my mid-twenties. By that age, I actually had two tv shows in Japan, ran a video production company in Hawaii that secured the television production for the all of the hotels on Oahu. It was quite an exciting time to say the least. While most of people my age were out clubbing, I opted instead to sit on the porch and talk about about politics, investing, and business. Now that I'm twenty-nine, I've downsized my operations tremendously. I have this wedding company, I still have my video production company, and I just opened up a high-end Kona Coffee Company. I'm very excited to what the next two years will hold for me, but whether I make or lose money, it's going to be a lot of fun.

SO LETS TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER

Now I do realize that you have been hearing a lot about the rain here in Hawaii. Do you realize that it's been raining for over 40 days and 40 nights! The rain has been bad at times, but not Noah's Ark end-of-times bad. Though, in all of my 29 years of living in Hawaii, I have never seen a storm system like this hit the islands before. Our weather has been freaky. Why just yesterday we woke up to a huge storm system, just to have blue skies at 2:00pm. By that time though, everything from roads to Kahala Mall were flooded.