Saturday, December 24, 2011

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!!

Thursday, December 22, 2011

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:)

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

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..................... :)

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

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.