Hawaii: Day 5 (06 June 2009)

Ah, finally we come to the "real" reason to the long tedious trip to Hawaii:

Yea, Amy graduated! It was a long way to come for a graduation but the ceremony made it all worth it... well... OK, it was good, President Snow of the Seventy even spoke... but it is a bit tough to sit around for a few hours inside when the beach is just calling your name! After the Graduation Ceremony we found our "graduate" and all took turns lei'ing her. Hawaiians have a good thing going with these leis!

Amy was so excited she couldn't even throw her cap up in the air properly, it almost put out dad's eye! If you ask Amy she will probably tell you the wind was blowing or some silly story like that, but come on who you gonna believe?!

Look at that pretty girl... can you see the relief of a "free" woman in those eyes? Well, it didn't last very long... Amy soon realized that now she had to figure out what to do with her life now! Lucky for her, she has a poor college boy to support!





Finally, picture time was over and we all made a b-line for the desserts! Those were some pretty good cookies as Juan's face can attest to!

OK, enough is enough, time to go answer the call of the beach!

We got changed into play clothes and went to The Turtle Bay Resort to play volleyball. I have to say that the "Colton Clan" dominated the court, even to the point of being kicked off by the staff so the hotel guests could play too. It was a great time and we played for a few hours. Then we were off to get wet once again!

We just couldn't get enough of those waves, though by this time most of us fair skinned folk were wearing shirts to try to keep from looking like lobsters.
Through out the all boogie boarding many of us had "wardrobe malfunctions" but Sera Dulce was the only one lucky enough to get hers caught on camera! I told her I'd blog it but Laura made me clean it up first. Sera, you better thank your aunt Laura!
This was the kids favorite activity of the trip.










As you can see they both got the hang of it pretty quick. It was fun to hear them squeal in delight as they caught a good wave.
We all had a blast catching waves.

There's nothing like catching waves on a sunny afternoon with your family in Hawaii! After a long day of fun in the sun we had a great B-B-Q at the beach house, ate too much, played some games and fell swiftly to sleep. A perfect ending to a perfect day!