Blog #4

My Vacations to Mexico and Hawaii

I have been on some amazing trips in my life, and it is all because of my amazing grandparents. The vacations that I have been on were completely amazing. I have been to Mexico twice and Hawaii once. My family and I got to go on those amazing vacations because of my grandparents, and we are so thankful.

 My grandpa is a doctor, and he and my grandma get to go all around the world because my grandpa fills in for other doctors in hospitals in so many very cool places. When they travel, they get time shares because they usually get to live in the place he is working for many months at a time. They got to stay in Hawaii for four months one time. I think it is so amazing. Because  my grandparents have time shares, they have invited us to go and stay with them in incredible places. The vacations I have been on were amazing, and we will probably get to go on many more in my life.

 The first time I got on a plane, my family and I were going to Cancun, Mexico. I remember that vacation so well. Some of the many things I did with my parents, sister, uncles, and grandparents were snorkeling, swimming, going to the beach, and we also got to swim with dolphins! My sister and I got to swim with the dolphins, but we weren't old enough to ride on them like my dad and uncles did. Two dolphins swam under them and put their noses under their feet and pushed them up out of the water and went very fast. It was one of the coolest things I have ever seen, and I was sad that I wasn't big enough to do that. Probably in a few years, we will get to go back to Mexico, and I will be able to ride on the dolphins. Something I also did on that trip was swim with a nurse shark. Nurse sharks are not like normal, aggressive sharks. They are very calm and tame. There was a closed off part of the ocean where the people had a tame nurse shark, and my sister and I got to go in the water and pet it.  It was very cool, and I will never forget that trip to Cancun, Mexico.

 My second very memorable vacation was when I got to go to Port a Viarta, Mexico. By the time we went on that trip, my baby brother was born, so he came with us. That was the very first trip he went on. My family and I were so happy that we were able to go to Mexico for a second time, because it was so beautiful, and we were all so thankful to my grandparents. My family and I got to do so many cool things. We got to eat at vibrant restaurants, go to the city where there were tons of stores by the beach, and set free baby sea turtles into the ocean. And, of course, we went swimming a lot. The experience that I remember most was setting free baby sea turtles into the ocean. My grandparents told us about it. There were marine animal workers that put out a brochure for people to come to the beach and help baby turtles into the ocean so that birds wouldn't eat them on their way into the water. We went down to the side of the ocean and the people were there with the turtles. Everyone got to pick one, and all of my family and I named ours. Baby sea turtles are surprisingly very strong! They kept hitting us with their flippers, anxious to get into the water. We went to the side of the ocean, put them in the sand where they were close to it, and they were off just like that. It was very amazing to see that happen, and I was so glad that I was able to protect them. I will never forget the experiences I had in Port a Viarta, Mexico.

 Lastly, the most recent vacation I went on was to the island of Oahu, in Hawaii. It was absolutely incredible. I got to go to an amazing Buddhist temple, swim in the ocean, go to the International Hawaiian Market, and I also got to eat snow cones every day we were there. I hope I can go back to Hawaii some day, because it was the most breathtaking place I have ever been to. To begin, this was going to be the longest airplane ride I had ever been on. I think that it was about 12 hours. We got to stop once in LA so that we could stretch our legs. Then, we got back on and went straight to Hawaii. It is 4 hours behind in Hawaii, so when we got there it was about 2 pm, instead of 6 pm in Colorado. The airport in Hawaii is very cool. After that, we rented a car and went to the hotel on the timeshare. The hotel was very pretty and big. My grandparents had so much planned for us to do. First, we went swimming. They had multiple different pools, and all of them were awesome. My favorite was one that had a cave with a waterfall going over it. There was also a very fun slide. It was dark, and I hate dark slides, but I decided to try it and I'm glad I did. We also went to a Buddhist temple. It was gorgeous and very cool experience. Lastly, we went to the International Hawaiian Market. It was outside, and the weather was gorgeous when we went. They have so many different kinds of things, and we got to get many souvenirs. Obviously, I loved that trip to Hawaii, and I wish that we can go back someday.

 All in all, I had an incredible time on all of my vacations. Mexico and Hawaii are beautiful, and I hope that my family and I will be able to go back someday. I also hope that we can go on many more vacations in the future. I have always wanted to go to Fiji, the Bahamas, Paris, Rome, and Athens. It would be so incredible if I could go to any one of these places. I have so many great memories because of these vacations, and I would love to go and make more with my family. I am so thankful for my grandparents. We wouldn't have gotten to go on any of those trips if it wasn't for them.