Behold the Jelly-- Hanauma Bay take 2

Well, my mom's last day I took her back to Hanauma by to try out snorkeling again. We woke up at the break of dawn to get there by 6am.



We were very excited to try it out again...


But we soon discovered, that because of the downpour of rain the night before, Jellyfish came to the beach too! The were everywhere!! In the water and on the shoreline.... :(


This is the Man of War Jellyfish... they are all the blue dots you see on the shoreline...



Yes, there are 12 of them all in one little area of sand... the water didn't look very inviting!! So we waited a while and they seemed like they were clearing up, so I thought my mom needed to try it before she leaves. So, we carefully found our way into the water and SHE DID IT!!


She saw a really pretty rainbow fish. Then about 2 seconds later I was snorkeling along and I felt a very bad burn on my arm... so I popped up out of the water, looked at my arm and a jellyfish was stuck to my arm, so I quickly swished my arm around in the water until it finally fell off and that is when they announced...


The beach is closing due to Jellyfish!! I'm glad my mom at least got to see one fish... next time hopefully she'll be able to see more.

Here are the pictures of my jellyfish sting... those suckers hurt!!


If you look closely you can see the perfect imprint of a jelly fish... the bubbling welt went away after a few hours, but the red mark took a few days.



So we left the beach and went to Kailua for some Banana pancakes with Mac sauce... mmm mmm good! If you ever get the chance, I highly recommend this place!!

Adventures at China Man's Hat

A few weeks ago, Me, John, Jess and Holly rented Kayaks and went Kayaking out to China Man's Hat.

Here we are getting ready to launch our kayaks into the ocean

This is a picture of Holly and Jess, just before we attacked them. We had us a good water battle against them! :)


Here is John and I right before we got to the shore of China Man's Hat.


I'm not quite sure what Jess is doing in this picture, but it's kinda funny.


Holly and Jess in the cave



John, Me, Holly and Jess right after we landed on China Man's Hat

Once we got to the island, we went snorkeling around it. We saw a lot of coral and a few fish... not the greatest place for snorkeling. We did that until Jess and Holly both got stung by Jellyfish and we decided that it was time to get out of the water.


This is the victory picture after we climbed to the top of the island. It took us a little longer because we followed a few false trails, but we made it and the view was really cool!!

Trip to the North Shore

We took my mom to the Dole Plantation for some pineapple ice cream. It was really good!!



I had a pineapple float. The take pineapple ice cream and "float" it in pineapple juice! Missy and Madeline shared a pineapple cone and my mom had pineapple ice cream smothered in pineapples...



After the dole plantation, we went up to the Laie visitor's center

On our way back home we stopped at one of the many shrimp shacks on the North shore and had us some garlic shrimp... yummy!!

Bellows AFB Campout

A few weekends ago, we went camping at Bellow AFB. Missy, Jimmy, Madeline and my Mom went out on Thursday night, so I met up with them on Friday morning. We played on the beach, and went boogie boarding...which is really fun!


Me and my momma


Me and my mom riding in a wave


Me and Madeline... she's so cute!!

The girls: Madeline, Missy, Momma, Me


Me and madre

Madeline had fun in the dirt... he he he


this is the camping ground... it's right off the beach.


That weekend was also my branch campout at Bellows, so I met up with my branch that night. We had some fun times!!


Marisa, Me and John



This is us playing Indian Poker... You stick the card on your forehead, without looking at your own card and try to bet according to other people's cards if you have the highest card... I really enjoyed it!
Obviously, I lost this round.


This is me introducing the good people of Hawaii to roasted Starbursts. I thik they really enjoyed them!


This is when John tried to trick me into eating a roasted starburst with the wrapper still on it... he couldn't fool me though!


We also played a bunch of relay games and on one of the team games, we had to go and catch 5 sand crabs. It was a lot of fun!! John broke out his shovel and we ended up catching some really big ones. I don't seem to have a picture of the crabs, I"ll have to ask around. But here is a picture of John showing his hand because he got pinched by one of them... he he he


The next morning we did some more boogie boarding and then packed up and left... it was a really fun weekend!!

Hanauma Bay Take 1

My mom has a fear of water, but she has greatly improved in the last few years, so I took her out to Hanauma Bay to give snorkeling a try...




She wasn't quite ready, so I occupied myself by taking pictures, which I love to do...





She decided not to go and to try again another day, so I took a quick dip in and saw some fishies..

It was a fun day!

Missy turned 30 so we had a party!

She got a carpet cleaner for her birthday...you never really know how dirty your carpet is until you clean it and see the difference... Happy Birthday Sis!

Readers Theatre

My branch did a reader's theatre on the life of Joseph Smith. I was Emma... it was really neat, except when I had to sing a solo... ha ha

Mike, Ikaika, Jensen, Jess, Isaiah, Chris, Me, Keleigh, Kivette