Quinn Alan Park

Aloha people!

I wanted to tell you about my awesome trip to Hawaii! I had a really good time visiting Grandma and Grandpa.

Uncle Kevin and Aunt Olivia were visiting, too, so I had a lot of fun playing with them also.

To start our trip, we got on an airplane. And we flew on the airplane for a really, really, really long time. But I did really great. I didn't cry or anything. Well, maybe I cried a little bit and I might have whined some, but I did great. Mommy and Daddy were very proud of me. Grandma picked us up at the airport and a lady from the plane told her that I was the best baby ever!

Grandma and Grandpa's condo was really cool. They had lots of toys for me to play with (plus a lot of Tupperware and egg cartons to bang on). Here's me playing with one of my favorites:

They also had a really nice pool. I think it was just a big bathtub. Here's a video and some pictures of me in the pool:

Daddy's face looks funny because I was splashing water in his face. I liked splashing in the pool!

We did a lot of other great things while we were in Hawaii.

Our first day, Daddy and Grandpa went scuba diving and the rest of us went to the beach. Uncle Kevin made a cool shark in the sand, but I didn't like riding on it.

Another day we went to a beautiful place called Hanauma Bay. Everybody else went snorkeling and saw lots of fish. I got to play on the beach with Grandma and play with the sand. It was weird because I would pick up a handful, but then it would go right out of my fingers. Mommy was happy because I didn't try to eat it.

(By the way, I know it looks like I wore that orange shirt all the time, but that's just because it was my sun-blocking SPF shirt. I had a really cool sun hat and sunglasses, too. I wore other stuff when I wasn't playing in the water, I promise.)

Another day, we went to a luau.

Here's Aunt Olivia and me listening to the Hawaiian music.

And here's Grandma showing me the hula motions to this song. She takes hula lessons.

Another day we went to Waikiki. Daddy went surfing. I played with the sand.

Some days, I just wanted to hang out with Grandma or Grandpa, so I sent everyone else out of the house. Here's a pretty picture from one of their hikes:

Here's a picture from their whale watching trip (they saw a monk seal, whales, and these dolphins). Grandpa baby-sat me while they went on the boat and we had a good time.

We had such a nice trip to Hawaii, I wish I could do it all again (except for the sitting on the plane part). We did so many cool things and saw so many beautiful places. I was pretty tired after our trip, but I loved it all! Thanks, Grandma and Grandpa! Aloha~


P.S.- Thanks to Uncle Kevin for lots of these pictures (and for his hat!)