Hello!

I'm currently sitting on a wicker chair on the hotel balcony, eating a blueberry muffin while I type. :3

Today, we haven't really done anything yet, but I have the feeling that we're going to go down and swim soon.

Yesterday, we had a lovely breakfast with waffles, muffins, yummy fruits, and perfectly cooked turkey bacon. It was quite yummy.

After that, we went down to take a swim in the ocean. I swam out wwwwaaaaayyyy over my head into the middle of it, and climbed onto the floaty platform-thingy. It was really wobbly, but I could stand up on it without falling over.

I also took a few photos. Here's one of a gorgeous Hawaiian flower:

  <3

You never see flowers like that where I live! :c

After we went to the beach and swam, we came back up to the hotel room and were lazy for a bit.

Then we went back out to listen to some Hawaiian lore that a storyteller was talking about. There was something about a dog carrying a shell in it's mouth o.o Anyways, it was very interesting!
Then after that, we got yummmyyyyy shaved ice.

The people were like: "Hi, what flavor do you want?! :D"

I was like," Um, can I try iced tea? Is it good?"

And one of the people was like," Well, I like iced tea, but this is a very... um... acquired taste." Then they handed me a sampler in a cute little cup. Instead of tasting like iced tea, it just tasted like artificial flavoring. X3

 I eventually decided on mango (you can't see it in the photo, because it's on the other side), watermelon, and lemon lime. It was tasty!

After that, we went to go swimming in the lazy river and in the pool that overlooks the ocean, which hopefully I'll have a picture of up later today.
My brother kept on trying to push my dad's donut-floatie thing under the water jets, and I would be like: "Edwinggg! That isn't nice >:c" and push the floatie AWAY from the water jets.
After that, we ended up having a battle over who would steer the donut floatie by splashing eachother with water and tugging on it, and eventually I just told him that it was pointless and we collaborated.
You haven't known being best friends and worst enemies unless you have a sibling. XD

As I was walking by the place where we'd been listening to the story, I noticed that the sun looked particularly picturesque through the palm trees, so I took a photo.

^.^

Later, as it was getting dark, we went to a Hawaiian festival. They gave us a smooth mat that looked like it was made out of soft, fluffy straw and we spread it out on the ground, then sat down to watch the festival.

It was really interesting, especially when the band started singing Hawaiian songs- that was my favorite part. The lead singer had an AMAZING voice. c:
The were also these random hula dancers with flowers in their hair who were like," Come learn the hula!" So I tried doing the hula, and felt ridiculous. (Especially with my big, clunky camera around my neck.)

And that's basically the story of my entire day!

Ciao!

~Edwingrim2

Hello! ^.^

So we're currently on the island of Oahu, which is in Hawaii. :3 We're staying at this massive resort with a towering building and lots of levels stacked atop each other like a layer cake.

So, here's what happened today:

On the plane, edwingrim (my brother) had a rather bad nosebleed. Luckily, there just happened to be both a doctor and a nurse aboard! 

After about an hour or so, they were able to stop it from bleeding. It was scary, though- I cried. :c

Once we got to our hotel, they draped these leis made with orangey, fragrant flowers around our necks and handed us glasses of this weird orange-melon water that tasted citrusy, but yummy.

Then we went to this restaurant to eat lunch. I wanted to get a lemon tart, but I have a few random allergies, so I couldn't have it. D:

I ended up getting this delicious sticky white rice and chicken nuggets with fruit. The chicken nuggets were all chewy and awful, though. >.<

After a while of asking and asking and asking and asking, mom finally agreed to take Ed and I to swim in the pools. We went on the Lazy River several times. To amuse myself, I:

• Swam backwards AGAINST the current, which actually worked, even though it was really strong.
• Swam over to all of the random waterfalls along the side of the Lazy River and dunked my head under. Something about waterfalls really interests me, for some reason. o.e
• Pushed all of the loose donut-shaped floatation devices out of the way of random people. (It made me smile when they said "thank you." c:)
• Steered Ed (in his floating device-thingy) away from the random bursts of water so that the water didn't touch his nose.
• Did tons of other random stuff, like listen to snatches of conversation.
• Listen when this random guy said to me "look" and pointed into the sky, and when I looked said," GULLIBLE! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!"

After that, we decided that we had to go on a waterslide or else the world would cease to exist. So we chose the scariest-looking one we could find (which wasn't saying much, because our choices were limited), got our donut-tubes, and stepped into line.

We kept on thinking that we were almost to the top, but then we would go around a turn and see that we weren't, so we would say "oh" and be disappointed.

Eventually we DID get to the top, but then it was slow and, all in all, not really worth it. There were a bunch of random turns, and then it was over.

After that, we asked a life guard where a bunch of random stuff was (eg. hot tubs, specific pools) and found this pool with an overhang and some water that tumbled into a bunch of sharp rocks below. Edwingrim didn't like it because he thought it was unsafe, but it had an amazing view. It was my favorite pool, personally. :D

After exploring a bit more, we went back to the hotel room and were unproductive. Jet lag can to that to ya. X3

Sorry for the lack of pictures- I'm too tired to upload them, which makes sense considering this time yesterday I would've been asleep in a different time zone.

Anyways, I'll try to make a post with some pictures tomorrow. In the meantime...

Ciao!

~Edwingrim2

Hello from San Francisco! ^.^

Okay, that sounded a bit cheesy. But hello, anyways. X3

SF is very... *cough* boisterous. But I like it! There are tons of quaint, random shops and pretzel stands and ice cream parlors. I'm also kind of jet lagged, but oh well.

This morning we went to breakfast at a cafe with this random waving cat.

 Cute, huh? :3

Oh, and in case you're wondering why the quality's a bit better, it's because I got a Nikon camera for my birthday! :D

Anyways, back to the day- I got some delicious chocolate pancakes, but I could only finish 1/4th of them (not counting the whipped cream).

After riding on a really speedy monorail that lurched every 5 seconds, we went to the gardens. They had a pond filled with these gorgeous swans. <3

  

Adorable and elegant, aren't they? c: The one in the last picture started honking very loudly, for some reason. o.e

There are also LOTS, and I mean LOTS of pigeons. Everywhere. If SF were a field, pigeons would be like blades of grass.

The birds here are very boisterous and loud. They fight over everything, down to the smallest scrap of bread.

 

Still, they're really adorable. My brother named the last pigeon "Chilled-Out Pigeon" because it let me stalk it with a camera for like 5-squillion years before it flew away. (Okay, it was actually five minutes. But that's a LOT for a pigeon, if you know pigeons. :p) 

Aaaand right now I'm listening to this weird song called Across the Universe on a computer music app.

Wow, the whole day doesn't sound too terribly exciting when I rehash it like this o.o

Adieu!

~Edwingrim2

The trip was great! ^.^ We weren't there all that long- only five days, actually- but it still managed to be lots of fun. c;

^Here's the view from the plane. Both flights were nice- smooth and short. That picture's of the sky at sunrise.

On both flights, I had some ginger ale. Plane travel makes me feel sick and kind of woozy, so I couldn't stomach too much.

Day 1-

Once we landed, our grandma picked us up at the airport and we rushed off to see our cousins! We ended up going to the park and playing tag (I won :D) and making chocolate chip cookies. (I was really tempted to eat the batter.)

They came out kind of sloppy and overlapping, but they tasted DELICIOUS.

Day 2-

We went to this random pizza place, but it started raining once we parked so we had to scurry under the awning as soon as we got out. I don't like pizza so I had pasta, cucumber, and apple pie with cinnamon. I also tried a mini brownie and a roll, but no one liked the rolls because they were too doughy. (bleah)

Later, we invited over a few family friends and we all had a barbecue and watched Despicable Me 2.

Day 3-

I went shopping with my mom at a bookstore, where I got tons of books. Two of them were written by John Green.

While we were walking in, I saw this sign:

 Couldn't agree more, sign. (: I looked on the other side hoping for a nice quote, but there was just a cheesy add for trinkets.

After that, we went to the grocery store and I got banana chocolate-chip muffins.

Day 4-

The weather was drizzly and miserable, so we went shopping for school supplies and clothes. We also watched Toy Story 3, which made me really nostalgic.

Day 5-

We celebrated my grandma's birthday, and had an early birthday party for me! ^.^ My birthday was on August 10th. We all went to the arcade and ate delicious chocolate cake, then unwrapped presents.

Day 6-

Left at 6:30 AM for the airport and got on the plane. I had a horrid stomach ache.

______

I just realized that I didn't actually take many pictures! :o

Well, never fear- we got my Nikon on the trip, so I should be able to upload some good photos from Hawaii. We're going first to San Franciso, then there in... two days, I think?
Ta-ta!

~Edwing

Kentucky (Part 1)

We just got off of our flight to Kentucky. Luckily it was nice and smooth without too much trouble. ^.^ There was a huge delay of an hour before we could take off, so I just read and kept checking the time. By the end of the flight, I'd finished my entire. Novel. o.e

Unfortunately I'm writing all of this out on my phone, so I'm not exactly sure that photos'll work on it. :p However, I will have a few of 'em up sometime this week. (I hope)

It's nice and scenic here. The trees looked like loads of little green poufs from the plane, and the cars like teensy colorful beetles.

There's also a large amount of windmills, for some reason, probably because there are so many farms...

Welp, I'll update more later!

Ciao! c: