Hi there! Do we have a lot of catching up to do!
This year for Halloween I was a peacock!
Mom helped me find the perfect costume. I love birds, and it was a lot of fun to pretend I was one for Halloween.
My neighbor Elliott and I trick or treated together. He went as a World War I fighter pilot.
Mom went with me and Dad stayed home to pass out candy.
You can tell he was really excited this year.
In other news I took a very special trip. I went to Hawaii!!!!
Dad has been saving his frequent flyer miles for almost 10 years. So, when he was sent to Hawaii for work, Mom and I decided to go too. We flew on three planes for over ten hours to get there. Dad met us at the airport with a lei for me and Mom.
This is a picture from our hotel room. We stayed right on Waikiki Beach in Honolulu.
You could see the Pacific Ocean from our room.
And, there were lots of palm trees with green coconuts. Hawaii was so beautiful!
Dad had to work most of the time he was there. But we did have a day to have some fun together as a family. We all went to Waikiki Beach!
It was my very first time at an ocean beach, and I was so excited! A nice girl who was flying home that day gave me her boogie board.
I wasn't afraid of the ocean at all. In fact, I jumped right in! I was full of giggles and squeals because I just loved every minute of it.
Here I am playing in the waves, the first time my toes ever touched ocean waves.
Later that night we went to a real Hawaiian luau!
There were lots of fun activities to do there like lei making (my favorite), playing traditional Hawaiian games, and riding an out-rigger canoe.
Mom and I made leis with pretty flowers.
I also met some of Dad's friends from work and their kids. We picked up seashells on the beach together. I really loved collecting shells, and I brought home a whole bag of them. I even found two tiny sand dollars, which are quite a treasure to me.
The next day, Mom and I went on a submarine ride.
We saw a sunken ship, sea turtles, a crashed airplane, and lots of interesting fish. I took about a million pictures! Here are just a couple.
Mom and I had a great time together.
We had fun adventures together all week long, and the weather was absolutely gorgeous.
Every morning there were beautiful rainbows right outside our hotel window.
Sometimes you could even see where the rainbows started in the mountains and ended in the ocean!
Mom and I also went to Sea Life Park for a dolphin encounter. We took a bus there and saw some of the most beautiful parts of Hawaii along the way.
Once we arrived at Sea Life Park we saw penguins, sea turtles and sea lions!
Then it was time to meet the dolphins.
I wasn't sure what to expect.
But, I knew everything would be just fine with Mom there.
I got to meet a dolphin named Itsy Bitsy!
She was really friendly. We danced together.
And I even gave her a kiss.
Mom got a smackeroo on the cheek too!
Mom and I spent every day at the beach together. We had so much fun together. Here I am catching some waves on my boogie board.
It took a little practice, but I got the hang of it.
I really enjoyed swimming in the ocean.
Those swimming lessons this summer were a good idea. I was quite the little fish once I got used to how the ocean worked. Mom was proud how I tackled those waves. I just dove right through them. FUN!!!
Before I knew it, it was time to go home. Mom, Dad, and I went out for one last Hawaiian dinner.
We had a great time together!
Hope everyone out there has a very happy Thanksgiving!! Aloha!
