Aloha Friends,
Most of you will find this silly and that's OK. But I wanted to share my story with you. A long time ago. Probably back in Feb/March. Around the time I was moving into my new house. I got to talking to some locals. They found out we would be visiting Kauai and told us this story about this fertility rock. And how all the women who sat on it got pregnant. They said that and of course I became interested. I am one who tends to believe that miracles can happen and that things like a fertility rock do exist. But only if it is the right time and place. I know that sounds totally quacked out but I think its good to believe that all things are possible. Anyway I told Eric at the beginning when I started planning our trip I wanted to find this rock and sit on it. Of course we brushed it aside and thought nothing else of it. We left for our trip and made it to Kauai. We loved it there so much! It was beautiful and really had this country feel to it. I mean the biggest area was Li hue and they just got a COSTCO! Chickens run wild and they are EVERYWHERE. Anyway probably our second day into our trip we were driving around the North Shore and made our way down east. We stopped at a lighthouse and found out about a lighthouse that not a lot of people knew about. It was kind of hard to get to but we were in a rental car so we were like lets just do it! Anyway we pull up and there is a group of locals just having a good time. We began to talk to them and they tell us they all met up to honor a classmate that had passed away. Sharing memories and just having fun together. I was like how awesome that in the light of something sad they are doing something so happy! We got to talking with them you know we were talking story! They asked us where we lived and where we were from. It was so cool! They had a ton of boys so Blake was in heaven because he had new "friends" to run around with. And they were all boys. Not a girl in sight. Because of these people we knew to go to the canyon on a clear day and not a cloudy. If we had gone on a cloudy day we wouldn't have seen the views we saw and things wouldn't have been as clear. We talked about different places and what places we were going to see and what we had already seen. Then I asked them about the fertility rock that the locals here had told me about. They didn't even hesitate they gave us directions and told us how to get there. The guys were super funny because they looked at me and said "Don't sit on that rock! You'll get pregnant!" The women were like hey now what if she wants to get pregnant ha ha! Anyway we bid them goodbye. They were super nice people. I hope we run into them again one day. It is such a small world. If its meant to happen it will. So Eric and I went off on an adventure. And of course Blake went a long for the ride! We drove around and at first thought oh great we aren't going to find this place. Well off to the left of us we see a BUNCH of rocks stacked up. So we stop. Come to find out we had pretty much run right into the birthing rock and fertility rock! WE FOUND IT! I was nervous approaching it. I mean what if I sat on this rock and I really did get pregnant. Not that it would be a bad thing because we do want at least 1 more kid. So I sat on the rock. And let me tell you it was a rush. I was like OMG I am sitting on the fertility rock! Staring across from me was the birthing rock. And the whole time I'm thinking yeah. So not having a baby on that thing! Gosh totally uncomfortable! Wow look at the bird poop on it. Ew gross. I got up thinking OK I did it. I accomplished this goal that I set out to do. I just found it so amazing that women from all over have probably sat on that rock and people from years back sat on that rock. How many now have babies? Or had a baby after sitting on that rock? Do they think the rock has magic powers or something that helped them? I think about how women from 100's of years ago would lay on the birthing rock and give birth. And how lucky we are now that we have hospitals and houses to give birth in. Anyway we drove away and I felt a new sense of astonishment and pride for the ancestors of the past. Will I get pregnant? Who knows. Only time and God know. But the experience I had was awesome and what an awesome story I could tell if I did get pregnant.
Much Aloha,
Amber
