I still can’t believe we are really in Hawaii

Dear diary

”Everything is so exotic and amazing!” was my first thought when I woke up this morning. Although we have already been here for five days, I still can’t believe we are really in Hawaii!

I was the sleepyhead again today, everyone woke up before me. It was about ten o’clock already when my mum woke me up. I didn’t even have time to eat my breakfast properly before my little sister started complaining that she wants go to the beach already. But she had to wait for a moment, because I’m really too lazy to hurry because of her...

It took a while, but after I had finished my breakfast and dressed up, we finally left for the beach near to our hotel. Sadly dad had a migraine (he said it was because of the heat - and I have to admit, the weather was way too hot for my taste) so he stayed at the hotel. We spent about two hours on the beach. My little sister, Emma, really had fun, deciding by the way she was smiling all the time; when she was making a sandcastle and a particularly big wave hit the beach, or when she was swimming with her new swim ring. She even made friends with some little German girl, even though they didn’t even speak the same language! Emma spoke Finnish of course and that other girl German, but it didn’t disturb their playing in any way. Children are pretty amazing in their own way, aren’t they? Anyway, I sunbathed the whole time and read some silly magazine. I’m really not going to forget the sunscreen ever again like I did on the first day!

We checked at the hotel if dad was already alright, but he still wanted to rest. Mum also wanted to stay in our hotel for a while room and sleep a little. But my little sister - no way. She was already going to the hotel swimming pool. And because my parents wanted to take a nap and they are “old and frail” as they said, it was me who had to go with Emma.

After all we had the pretty good “sister-time” together. We swam in the swimming pool and mainly just played the fool. There was a little kiosk next to the swimming pool and we bought ice cream. Emma dropped her ice cream accidentally but the salesman in the kiosk was really nice and gave her a new ice cream for free! And then we swam a little more since Emma never seems to get tired of it.

After a couple of hours she finally agreed to go back to our hotel room. Mum and dad were still sleeping (What about “a quick nap”?) so we decided to wake them up. Mum was just like “oh, how did I sleep this much”, but dad still had a migraine, if just slightly and it didn’t bother him so badly anymore. We spent some time in our hotel room. Mum still wanted to rest a little and I also tried to take it easy for a while and read a book. But Emma bustled something all the time, since it’s so hard for her to stay in a place even for a little moment.

In the evening we got up and went to search for some nice restaurant. Dad was already better so he could come with mum, me and Emma, too. We walked all over the town, but it didn’t really matter because there was so much to see. Everything is so different here than in Finland! Even the air tastes and feel different. There are so many scents in the air; flowers, the sea, food etc... People are much friendlier and everyone looks so happy - though most of the people here are tourists. Well, who wouldn’t be relaxed on holiday. But this place has to have an effect on the people’s moods, I’m sure. Everything is so beautiful and exotic!

It took pretty a long time, but finally we found a good restaurant on the beach. The sea was quite near to the restaurant and the whole place was quite full of feeling. I and Emma ate only spaghetti, but dad and mum wanted to try some local, exotic-looking food. It looked just weird, but dad liked it. Though mum wasn’t so impressed at all. We also ate ice cream for dessert and mum drank an espresso.

When we had eaten and dad had paid the bill, we walked on the beach for a while before going back to the hotel. Mum was pretty worried all the time that Emma would run away and get lost, but then again, she is always worried about her.

After the little walk, we went back to our hotel. Now I am here on my bed writing this diary. I’m pretty tired and I think I should already stop and go to sleep. It was a wonderful day again. I’m so happy that we still have many days left and we don’t have to go yet back to Finland for many days. I feel I would just spend a lifetime here. How such beautiful places like Hawaii even can exists? I’m sure it will be fantastic tomorrow, too.