Aloha everypony!

[808pony]

Soooo....I'm new to the MLP Arena, living in Hawaii.  I taught middle school for about 13 years, took a year off to have my daughter, and am now teaching 9th grade.  My first pony was back in the '80's (I had a rainbow pony, but forgot her name....she was an earth pony), I saved up to get her, and loved her!!!  I  started following the G4 because my 2 1/2-year-old fell in love with Applejack in the store, and that was THAT.   My own collection is no longer existing, unfortunately, being casualties of garage sales.  Looking to rebuild my collection of G1 and G3...and add to my daughter's burgeoning G4!

[himmie]

Welcome to the Arena!

[Kitten Mittens]

Welcome to the Arena.

[kiwimlp]

Nice to have you here, 808pony

The links below take you to images of the rainbow ponies.  Hopefully you will recognize your childhood pony

http://www.kimsites.net/dreamvalley/2nd_edition_ponies.html#rainbow_ponies2
http://www.kimsites.net/dreamvalley/3rd_edition_ponies.html#rainbow_ponies3

[achab1984]

Welcome back to the hobby Happy to hear that you and your daughter can enjoy ponies together

[Teddy]

Hi there, and nice to meet you!! ^-^

Hope you can figure out which rainbow pony you had and maybe re-acquire her! That was the first thing I did when I started collecting, located the ponies I'd had as a kid and snatched them up. It was so cool to see and have them again after so many years.

[sacred_tinker]

Hello and welcome to the Arena! 

[808pony]

Thank you, everypony, for the warm welcome!  And special mahalo out to kiwimlp -- I had Sunlight, and always wanted a Starshine...

[Noepse]

to the arena!

[Diamond]

and welcome to the Arena.  That is so great your daughter got you back interested.  Now you can use her as an excuse to buy all the ponies you wanted and a few for her.  LOL