The Gratton Family: Hawaii 2012

Working on our sandcastle skills.

Favorite part of the trip is always the water slide. It was especially wonderful for Mommy to be able to just sit and watch her slide, swim against the current to the side, climb up the steps and slide again, all with no help.

Boogie boarding/surfing/ocean swim lessons with Boppa. Occasionally I would look up and see Drew fighting some small currents to get to the boogie board Boppa had pushed away from her. She did great!

Kimo's! Someone's missing from this picture :(

After 2 failed monkey bar attempts, she swung all the away across, accumulating 2 blisters in the process. She was pretty proud of her wounds.

What a fish!

At our annual trip to the Maui Ocean Center. She just loves looking at all the fish every year.

My favorite story of the trip happened here. We had walked up to a small crowd who had just finished listening to a marine biologist talk about sharks, unfortunately we had missed the whole thing, but she was now asking all the kids a question to win a prize: "how long can a tiger shark grow to?" Drew, of course, wasn't paying attention but instead looking in the window at all the animals. One older boy raised his hand and answered 25 feet. Wrong. Another older boy raised his hand and answered 15 feet. Wrong. Drew stood up, turned to the lady, raised her hand and said "20 feet." She was correct, the whole place applauded and she won a prize for a complete wild guess. I was super proud.