Hooray!

Just got some awesome news from Holly. [OK, so Holly is the person who got me started thinking about Hawaii in the first place, months and months ago. She has lived on Maui for like 10 years but went back to school at Northwestern, where I met her and where she convinced me Hawaii is a great place to move to. She's been a terrific help in getting ideas, contacts, and advice.] She just let me know that 1. her friend has a room in Paia, this cute little windsurfing town, that Jeanie and I can rent for our first month, so that'll buy some time for us to look for another place closer to where we'll hopefully be working (and Holly will be staying there over Christmas, as well, so we'll know people!); and 2. we can borrow Holly's car from the 9th to the 17th (she usually rents it out but will let us use it until she gets there). It feels SO good to have something concrete waiting for us. :)