Hawaiian Paradise: Day 4

Here's the trouble.  All the pictures are on Braden's computer.  Most of the time, he has his computer with him at school.  So I don't get many opportunities to update this blog.  Hence, it is taking me a couple weeks to finish up our trip to Hawaii.  We'll see how many I can get scheduled this time around...

Hi girls!

Sorry I didn't write yesterday.  We were so tired I couldn't stay up to write.  I'll try to catch up today.

Yesterday morning, we headed back to Turtle Beach and swam with the turtles again.  This time, Ben and Robb took waterproof cameras so we could take pictures of the turtles under the water.  I can't wait to show those to you. 

This one looks like he's just walking along

SMILE!!

As you can see, we were super close to them.  Probably too close...

Coming up for air

Braden swimming behind the turtle

Then, we headed back to Shark's Cove and snorkled with all the fish. There was another big turtle over there. Daddy bought a waterproof camera for Shark's Cove and got some great pictures, too. 

Can you see all those shiny fish?

Braden's favorite

My favorite

That night, we had a stand up paddle surfing lesson which was SO cool!  We paddled up a river, and there were turtles swimming up the river to go to sleep.  It was a lot of fun to be on the boards on a beautiful night, paddling into the sunset.  It was awesome.  Even grandma, with arthritis and bad hips, did awesome!

Heidi and Nate told us that about 20% of their students fall in the river.  We decided to prove them wrong and go for a grand 100%.  I had the easiest board, so I didn't fall in until I was pushed in.  Braden had a really hard board, so he fell off every couple minutes.  Poor guy.  I hope he had fun anyway.  Nicho, Stace, and Laurie, of course were troublemakers and were the cause of a lot of wet people. 

We had the best time.  If any of you are ever in Oahu, you HAVE TO take a Stand Up Paddle Surfing lesson with my sister's school.  It is called Rainbow Watersports and you will have the time of your life.  It was so fun!