Christmas!

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!:D AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR:) 2011 was mostly amazing:D

Not that I won't be posting anymore this year!!

Snorkeling 12/22/11

Today was super cool...! Except I had to wake up early which to my school friends would seem crazy because for school I wake up at 6:30. Today I woke up at 7:30. ( Maui time meaning at home it was 12:30) It was worth it though because we went on a snorkeling cruise! We got on the boat at 8:30 am with 70 other people which might seem like a lot but the boat could hold 150 people. We had breakfast on board while we drove to our first snorkel destination (molikini). I was kind of freaked out about how deep and cold it was because it was already windy outside the water. Also I thought sharks might be there even though the only shark you would see was a reef shark probably. Snorkeling was fun there it was deep and weird that the fish we so far down but still really cool. We saw Yellow Tang, Parrot Fish, and Triger Fish. All the fish were swimming around in schools except for the Yellow Tang and Parrot Fish. ( I guess the bigger fish were solo) We were snorkeling for about one hour there and when we got back on my dad shared TIGER SHARKS had been spotted in that area 20 ft long! Nice time to share that lovely story. When we got back on the boat we sailed for an hour and a half to our next snorkeling area. On the way there we saw DOLPHINS they were adorable! They were Spotted Dolphins and they jumped into the air and followed the boat around:) I love dolphins:D Once we got to Lanai our second snorkeling place we swam around the edges of the coral reef. We saw some eels here but mostly some of the same things as Molikini. Lanai was calmer though and less busy. Bill Gates also got married on Lanai:] People still live there but I think it's mostly resorts now. Once we got on the boat again we returned our snorkel gear and got ready to head back. It was rougher on the way back then on the way in though. Shortly after we left Lanai the captain turned into a large cove and said he saw spinner dolphins! They were so awesome the dolphins jumped into the air and flipped! They were apparently resting in the cove....doing flips? Later on our way back we saw whales breaching, I'm not sure what kind they were and they were further away than the dolphins had been though. Once we got back we came home and ate pastaaa:) Today was super fun!

Sadly I could not take pictures because my camera was digital and would not survive if it was underwater. Also the whales, and dolphins were too fast for my camera. However I have videos that I may post on ISABEL'S MAGICAL KINGDOM:)

December 21 2011

I don't really have a whole lot to write about today. We woke up late, left the house late and by the time we really did anything productive it was 12:30. At 12:30 we ate Taco Bell:D I personally love 7 layer burritos. ( and Brisk iced tea:)

After we ate taco's we drove to a beach, I'm not even sure what it was called because they have a LOT of beaches here. At the beach we waded in the water a little and read on the beach. After the beach we went grocery shopping at Mana Foods! Well before I bore everyone to death I'm gonna stop writing because frankly I'm boring myself..................... :)

My day December 20 2011

Soo I already posted today but that had absolutely nothing to do with Hawaii!! Today my parents went to this time share presentation thing. You are probably like what the heck, why would they do that? Well we are going snorkeling at Molikini in a few days and you have to take a boat to get there. By going to this presentation we get a discount for some reason. Like do they really think anyone's going to hear about getting a Time Share cause I'm pretty sure they weren't! I don't think it was amazingly fun for them though because all they did was sit and listen to sales people talk for two hours........ BUT HEY..... they had rice crispy treats:) While they did that Gabe, Amelia and I sat at Starbucks and read and did math. After we went to get sandwiches at a.... sandwich shop. We sat and ate at a park by the beach and looked at the tidepools after. THEN we got frozen yogurt (froyo)!

TaDaaaaa!

New Stuff

It's been...... let's seee.....8 months since my last post. So now I will proceed to tell you everything that happened in the last 8 months. Surprisingly it has been the most interesting 8 months of my life probably but I haven't done one post. So first over the summer we had a foreign exchange student stay with us. Her name was Svenja she was with us for about 3 weeks and than Amelia went to stay in Germany where she lived for 3 weeks. Since I have a lot more stuff to get through that's all I'm gonna say about summer vacation. It was very fun though. In August I started running or conditioning for running Cross Country because I decided to go back to public school. I started school in September and ran Cross Country for most of the season which I absolutely LOVED! Then in October at one of my meets a mosquito bit me and gave me a virus. Only I didn't know that when I was feeling super tired and sick for 10 days. I kept running and going to school for a few days but then I was too tired to go. I went to the doctor and they told me I had an ear infection and gave me gigantic pills to take. They didn't know I was going to have a seizure in 2 days though... and a stroke. I don't remember a whole lot of the first week at the hospital but getting my fingers pricked a lot. The second week I woke up for a little longer though and some of my friends visited. My walls were decorated with posters and I had a gazillion cards. We went outside sometimes and had yucky cafeteria food but mostly I think I just stared at the parking garage next door. The third week was the most productive because I was moved to the rehab level. There I had physical, occupational, and speech therapy, school and massage therapy. Everyones like OOOHH you got massage's but seriously even that I hated when I was in the hospital. I was absolutely thrilled when I was discharged from the hospital. When I got back Candice, Amelia, and Zach and Seth came over and through me a surprise party! Just about four days after I got out I went back to school. It was actually the beginning of the second semester so I didn't start in the middle. My classes were switched around and I had extra study halls because I couldn't take Physical Education. I went to physical and speech therapy once a week for several weeks though. About one week after I got back they started conditioning for Track and I joined that. Everything is about back to normal now though. I love running track with my friends and now I'm doing most of the things I was doing before. Now it's Christmas break and we are BACK IN HAWAII! Where I started this entire blog. I could probably make about 50 posts about the last 8 months but so far in Hawaii we have shopped, gone swimming, snorkeling, and gone to a lavender farm. Yesterday dad and Gabe went biking down Haleakala and dad tore his shoulder and now we are going to Barnes and Noble.

California

Last week we went to California for spring break! Starting at waking up at 4 am last Monday here's how our vacation went. Well we woke up at 4 am tired obviously and went to the airport. We took a plane to the Chicago airport and tried to get on the flight to San Francisco. We missed the 1st flight ughhhhhhh but luckily got on the second one.:D The plane ride wasn't so great. Four hours with no food but gobstoppers...ew. I did however get some reading done. Anyway when we got off the plane rented a car and began the...grumpy drive to the the town. Yes, grumpy but we hadn't had food for 5 hrs so it makes sense. Since our grumpiness started making the ride miserable we stopped and got pancakes:) Pancakes make everything better in my opinion. After eating we began driving up a mountain on curvy roads. I do not do well on curvy roads but lucky for Gabe and Amelia I didn't vomit. After 15 minutes of curves we arrived in the little town Bolinas. The house we stayed at was only a 5 minute walk from town...niceeee. Once we got settled in Gabe and I walked into town to see if they had a coffee shop. We saw a cafe but it was closed so we just went to the grocery store. After we had $80 worth of stuff we found out they only took cash. They had an ATM but the card wouldn't work! We had to call our parents to come down and tell us "we changed the password" yep. The next day mom and dad wanted to see the town too so we walked down and found this awesome book store! Nobody worked there so you just walked in and if you found a book YOU decided how much it was worth. It was pretty cool;) After that we decided to go look around for a coffee shop too and instead found a smoothie place! They had awesome smoothies and internet. Amelia and I got bored after a while though and decided to go find the beach. Once we found it we mostly just sat on the big rocks they had there. Later that day we went for a hike at this bird place. They were supposed to have tons of birdies. We didn't see a single bird but that was fine with me...until we got to the muddy part of the hike. We walked around it for awhile only to find out there was a stream we had to walk through. Gabe about had a panic attack when he saw that I think:P After that lovely hike we went on another hike down to some tide pools! Not only was the hike beautiful the tide pools were awesome. They had starfish, these squishy things we couldn't identify, and shells. Fun day! The next day we went to Muir Woods. It was really cool there too they had huge red wood trees. You would need a loooong ladder to get to the top of those. After the hike we got food. So I'm eating and out of nowhere comes the cutest chipmunk thing ever! It looked like a chipmunk only mini:D The people there must have known how cute they are because there was a sign that said DON'T FEED THE CHIPMUNKS! aww. On Thursday we went on an 8 mile hike. It started out really nice with an awesome view but about 2 miles of hiking up a curvy mountain later I was tired! It was pretty muddy in some places and just as I thought is this worth it? we saw the sign saying .5 miles to go. YAY! At the end of the .5 miles we saw the waterfall we hiked 4 miles to get to. So pretty! We had to go down a little steep hill to get on flat ground and that's where I got scared. We had to jump over a rushing river ( only 4 ft ) that led down a 50 ft cliff into the ocean! EEK! I made it but my heart was pounding after the jump. We found a place to sit on the Cliff and ate chips while Amelia and dad went down a path to the ocean. On the hike back it didn't seem as tiring. Just as we were about to get back some nude guy ran by! AND he had pants! He just wasn't wearing them. Freak. The next day we didn't do much just hung out and went to the beach. Saturday however was busy and fun. We had to go down the curves again yes but a day in San Francisco was worth it. First we walked over the Golden Gate Bridge. It was a pretty view over the ocean and you cold see Alcatraz. Then we went to Japan Town! My favorite. We went to the mall there and shopped! They had good ramen noodles. Lastly for Amelia we went to Berkley. We looked around the campus there and got frozen yogurt. That stuff rocks:D Another awesome day! Our last full day in California was spent mostly hiking. This time the hike was flatter and less muddy. It was by a river mostly and finished out on a huge rock cliff with a river flowing under it. The water was amazing looking it had different layers of blue. That night we decided to make smores. Cause what better way to end a vacation then eating smores!? They we pretty good:) That's how our vacation went mostly. It was the coolest vacation ever! Bye Bye!

sick:( Sc

Last week I went to SC it was really fun! I got to hang out with my Cousins and relatives. We also shopped at Target and Penny's. So spring is supposed to start on the 21st next month and it's still snowing! grrr Who wants spring!?

Castles, and bridges

Ok so today was loooong. As always we woke up and went down to breakfast. It was really good:P Then we went with 4 other people ( we know them, just not saying names here) into a bus thing and drove. We drove for about 2 hours and on the way were a lot of little villages. There were also a lot of people selling different things in the middle of the road. Once we got to the rain forest we were going to, we signed up for a swinging bridge walk. The walk was really cool it was really high up though. ( I will post pics of that 2) It was a super thin bridge but apparently it could hold 8,000 pounds! ( 2 elephants) It was about 150 feet up too. There were not many animals ether just a lot of lizards. After this walk we drove about half an hour to a castle. The castle is where slaves were kept before they went to work on different farms. The castle had 2 moats around it in case the British tried to attack. It was built in the 1400's by the Portuguese before Columbus discovered America. There were 2 different sections where they kept the men and women. If any of the slaves tried to escape they were put in a really small dungeon with no windows for a few days. If the soldiers gaurding the castle got in trouble they were put in the dungeon too. But the dungeon they were in had windows and they were only in there for a few hours. It was pretty interesting, but sad. The ride home seemed like it took forever because the traffic was very busy. Also the people in Africa are kind of bad drivers:P Only one more day in Africa :( Here are the pics! The pictures on my post actually are going to be of the brige, and the castle.....obviously. byeeee

Africa

Hi everyone! Here is my post with Africa pictures I promised :) It's really warm here. Today it was 90! I just got back from the pool yayyy! This morning we went to the market. It was really cool....but hot. They had a lot of wooden masks, and statues. I got a pair of earrings and a bracelet. ( I will post some pictures of that) Yesterday when we got here we took a walk on the beach. It was really crowded in some parts, but it was nice. A lot of people tried to sell you stuff too. They tried to sell you pictures, and wanted to paint your nails even. 1$ for us is $1.50 for us. Well here are the pictures. Enjoyyyy(: On this post there's a picture of the bracelet I got. In the center are carved masks I saw at the market. At the bottom is a picture of the pool at our hotel. I will also post pictures on the side of my blog. Tomorrow I will post byee! =]

Africa

Hi everyoneee. Starting tomorrow you will see pictures of Africa, and posts! Sorry I didn't post today I was really busy. Byee!

snow

Today was really pretty, and snowy so here are some of my pictures I took today(: Most of them are pictures of tree's. winter boots. tree's.

enjoyyy :] I might not post many pics tomorow, but I will try to post some. Also keep checking to see pictures of Africa.... starting Saturday!

Reflect

Hi! Today my awesome project was reflections! I am going to post three of my favorite reflections of myself today. enjoyy :] To the left is a picture of my reflection in a stove. In the center is my face reflection on a car with snow, my personal favorite =] To the right is my reflection in a store window. ( the store hasn't opened yet btw) :) byeee!

Pictures of my feet

Hi! Today I'm going to post some pictures of my feet that will help people learn about meee :) The way these pictures cann do that is I took them in front of different things :P Here they are! On the left are my amazing socks that show I'm a fun person ( usually) in the middle are my feet in front of all my stuffed animals showing I love stuffed animals, and of course to the right are my feet in front of my window with snow in the background showing I live in a cold place. That's it for today:) keep checking my blog since I'm going to keep posting pictures, and posts of course. =]