This morning, breakfast was really really good, again! After breakfast some of us got into vans and went snorkeling at Hanauma Bay. We all got our snorkeling gear and got dropped off for the day. It had such a beautiful view- it was the most beautiful thing I have seen in my life. We snorkeled and saw lots of different fish! It was so cool to be so close to nature! I actually got to see whales in the opening of the bay! They are such awesome creatures.
Everyone loved being able to see over 300 fish available. We actually saw the state fish called the “humuhumunucunucuapoa’a” Some students had underwater cameras and got some good pictures of the under water life! The water was so blue and clear you could see some fish and all the reef from the top of the volcano! It was honestly such a beautiful place.
The students that went hiking up to Diamond Head got to have a little bit more time in the morning. On our way there we all made a big circle and spread out to stretch. It was pretty funny to watch. Once we were warmed up, we had to walk about an hour to Diamond Head. It was nice to walk through a less touristic area so you could see the “normal life” in Honolulu. At the base of Diamond Head we saw a lot of beautiful flowers. We were inside a dead volcano and looked to see where we were going to hike up. Unfortunately we can not control the weather and we got rained on a bit. The view was very beautiful and the weather did not stop us from enjoying ourselves!
When the rain stopped we hiked up in the sun, which made the trip up a lot more enjoyable.Every step up we took it kept getting better and better. There were so many beautiful views around each corner. Before we made it to the top we had to climb up almost 300 steps! AH! Then once we made it to the top we thought that we had seen it all then we went around one more corner and saw all of Honolulu and the Pacific Ocean. We stood there with our mouths wide open with our jaws dropped. What a beautiful view. After two and a half hours, and no mention of how long of a trip it would be we headed back down. And perfect timing, it started to rain on our decent and we got a cool down on the way back to the base. It sounds better than it was. We ended up taking the city bus back to the hotel because we wanted to rest a bit since we were still kind of wet.
We had free time for lunch. Some students went to Duke’s restaurant, and most enjoyed a huge buffet of delicious food. Most of us just enjoyed some time to relax. It was so nice to have some time to sit around and hang out.
It was already time to head out to dinner. We got on the busses and headed off to Ala Moana Shopping Center. We stormed the shops! Everyone spread out and enjoyed being able to get some more shopping done! Some people enjoyed 100% Kona coffee! Mmm! Then it was time for dinner. We ate at Bubba Gump Shrimp! The people that work there were awesome! We loved the food too! YUM! We played games and did trivia with the waiters. It was so funny to watch everyone cheering on the students! The décor in the restaurant is so entertaining! Over all we all loved it!
It was a perfect day and as usual everyone is exhausted now! The food was great, the company of the students was great!
We'll have more stories tomorrow... night night!
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