Thursday, July 14, 2011

Graduation Trip

This summer my little sister graduated from high school and I graduated with my Master's Degree so my parents took the family to Maui to celebrate. We had such a great time except the only thing that would have made it better would have been if Jake could have come.One of the biggest highlights of the trip was swimming with dolphins at Black Rock. We were swimming out pretty far because we were hunting for turtles and all of a suddenly Shelly points to a TON of fins that looked like they were surrounding us. We thought they were sharks and so Ang yells, "Head for the rocks!" But luckily Ryan swam over and said they were dolphins and so we swam right up to them and followed them around for about thirty minutes. They were totally putting on a show for us doing flips underwater and we even saw a baby dolphin! It was definitely my favorite part of the trip!Another exciting excursion was the bike ride down Haleakala. We had to wake up at 1 am so we could watch the sunrise! It was freezing but really pretty and fun!
We had a lot of fun playing at the blow hole.We hiked to a waterfall on the road to Hana.
Another one of my favorite things was renting paddle boards one day. We had so much fun paddling around the ocean. We ended the trip by para sailing. It was so windy that it made us a little bit sick but it was fun!