Hawaiian Christmas

I grew up in Colorado. It was always cold there during the holidays and Utah is no different. I spent this Christmas in Hawaii. It was strange because it was warm and it rained instead of snowing and when it rained it wasn’t even cold. Despite having a warm Christmas it was great. We spent a week on Oahu. I was there with Kim and her family. We stayed in Waikiki. I heard that 1.2 million people live in Hawaii and 1 million live on Oahu. We did a lot of snorkeling and went on a submarine and visited Pearl Harbor and the Polynesian Cultural Center. We went to the north shore and saw people surfing some huge waves. I really like snorkeling. At one spot we went to we saw a sea turtle. It was probably twelve to eighteen inches in diameter. I followed it around for a long time. It was just taking it easy, cruising around. At the same place I saw a moray eel about three feet long. It was swimming and I think that I startled it. It went back against a rock and started glaring at me and moving its mouth. I thought that it was going to eat me. I just learned from the above link that it could have caused more harm to me than I thought at the time. I am glad that I didn’t try to touch it or anything. I don’t think that I like eels very much. On the submarine that we went on they took us to some ships that were sunk on purpose to create artificial reefs. On the biggest ship there was a turtle just sitting on the deck. I would guess that it was about four feet in diameter. It was getting cleaned. Sort of like the whale wash in a Shark’s Tale, which just so happened to be the in-flight movie on the way to Hawaii. It was fun to spend time with Kim’s family and to be in such a beautiful place. I look forward to the next time that I can go to Hawaii.