Grade Five Alive!

While we’re all enjoying our spring break, I thought this would be a good time to post this piece about Ruby’s Hawaiian vacation a few months ago.

In January I was lucky enough to go to Hawaii. I will share my favorite parts of my trip.

When my friend, her parents, and I first got there we checked into our first hotel. Later on we went to Maui, but the first island we went to was Honolulu. 

On our first day we unpacked and walked around a bit. My friend and I persuaded her parents to go to an ice cream shop. The ice cream shop had many unusual flavors but my two favorite flavors were macadamia nut (with real macadamia nuts!) and green tea.  It really tasted like green tea.

Then we happened to pass a toy store called Animation Magic that had some cool toys like cactus pups and moofias which me and my friend and I now have a collection of. But, the thing we got the most of is pearls.

When we went to Maui that’s all we wanted was pearls. I also came home with some WebKinz and Japanese food erasers which were very cool. One day my friend and I went to a kids club.  We got to go to the Hawaii Zoo and see alligators and leopards. Then we went to the hotel room and took a nap. Going to a zoo is tiring! 

Finally we went swimming in this cool pool for two hours, and after we went to a luau.

~Ruby