Wednesday, April 8, 2009

The ocean

After several weeks, we finally made it to the ocean. We'd been taking Leo to a calm lagoon/pond that was closer to the hotel. Leo hooted and hollered and squealed with delight. It was finally warm enough to swim and I floated him around in his life vest. He kept trying to stand and got knocked over by the "tidal waves".

On Sunday, Leo must have gotten tired of our pestering him to put on swim goggles. He put the swim mask on in the bathtub and looked at my feet and counted my fingers. I gave him a snorkel and let him practice in the bathtub. It worked so well, he snorkeled on Monday in the lagoon and practiced using the mask in the pool. We're so excited we will take him to Hanauma Bay this weekend to see some real fish! Paul has alreay snorkeled at the beach here and reports great fish but no coral.

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