作者：廖艺蕾（11岁，美国波士顿）
这个圣诞节我和我的家人去了夏威夷度假。我们去了一个绿沙滩，夏威夷的国家火山公园，和一个水上乐园并与海豚在海水里一起游泳，还去了古兰尼牧场，和鸟一起玩了。
绿沙滩是我最喜欢的。我们是坐皮卡车去的，路上非常颠簸。有时候会感觉要从悬崖上掉下去，有时候感觉车要翻过来。我们站在后兜里面，风非常大。过了半个小时我们终于到了，从悬崖上看下去 风景非常美丽。太阳在天空上闪耀，鸟在唱歌，天空蔚蓝蔚蓝的。我走下台阶到沙滩上，拿起一把沙子仔细的看了看我才发现沙子并没有那么绿。我想象当中的沙子是碧绿碧绿的，但其实是土黄色的。这时我的弟弟和爸爸发现了一群非常大的海龟，我和妈妈连忙跑过去，看到了像两个十四寸电脑大小的一群海龟正在自由自在的玩耍，它们开心地穿梭于我们之间, 看起来并不害怕人群。我连忙拿出手机来给这群可爱的绿色大家伙们拍照，一张我很喜欢的照片是一只小海龟在水里游泳，他看起来像在游蛙泳，小乌龟把他的四肢往前摆然后往后推。有时候他会不小心翻个跟头但他还是会爬起来继续游。小乌龟的贝壳只有我弟弟的手那么大可能刚出生不久，非常可爱，他跟着那群大海龟游还有玩耍看起来他很开心。拍了几张各不相同的照片之后，我发现它们似乎在这里玩够了，它们一群海龟正悠闲地离我们而去，开始到其他地方玩耍了。水温没有那么冷也没有那么热很舒服，我无从考证但是我想那应该就是为什么这里有海龟吧。
我们也去了一个死火山，那个火山有几百米高。一千多年以前就停止喷发了，我们用了半个小时爬上了山顶看到了山下非常壮丽的风景，山的左边是蔚蓝的大海，海面上有几艘帆船，还有一条游艇。白色的浪花拍打着岸边的岩石山，半空中飞着一群一群的海鸥。山的右边是巍峨的山脉，三角形的山脉连绵起伏，但是当你爬到山顶你会感觉山顶上是平的。从远处看的话那些山会看起来像绿色的三角形。那些山脉互相连接在一起连续不断的山脉，向外的一面非常陡峭，像一堵很高的墙，又像一座长城。向里的一面没有那么陡峭，万一没有那么多石头和树的话不用车就可以自己走上去。
另外，一个让我印象深刻的地方是古兰尼牧场。这是一个非常大的地方，有4000公顷，很多著名的电影都是在哪里拍的。整个地方都是草地，每一小块地的左右边都会有一个牛栏，中间一般都会是马路，那是用来让人们开车进来参观古兰尼牧场。应为这里面有那么多牛，这个地方就看起来像一个牧场，所以叫古兰尼牧场。我们看到了电影拍摄的地点，其中有侏罗纪公园，恋爱五十次，和哥斯拉。也看到了很多拍摄电影的道具比如哥斯拉怪兽的大脚印，和侏罗纪公园恐龙的骨头。还听到了很多有趣的电影故事，比如在侏罗纪恐龙里看见背景里的恐龙都是牛，还有，哥斯拉的大脚印以前是三英寸深，但现在只有几英寸深了，因为牛可以掉下去被摔伤，还有更多有趣的故事。
这次是我第一次和我的家人去夏威夷，我觉得去的每一个地方都很值得，我明年还想去一次。这次的旅程非常精彩让我觉得回味。
Beautiful Hawaii Islands
I went to Hawaii for my christmas break with my family.some of the places i went to was a green beach, Hawaii’s National Volcano Park, a water park and a swim with dolphins in the ocean, and went to Guarani Ranch.
The Green beach was my favorite. We went in a pickup truck and the road was very bumpy. Sometimes it felt like you’re going to fall off a cliff, and sometimes it felt like the truck was going to flip over.We were standing in the back pocket and the wind was very strong. My hair kept on flying in my face, I could barely see!After half an hour we finally arrived, looking down from the cliff the scenery was very beautiful. The sun shines in the sky, the birds are singing, the sky is blue. I walked down the steps to the beach, picked up a handful of sand and looked at it carefully to find that the sand was not so green. I imagine the sand was very green, but it is actually yellowish brown. Then my brother and father found a group of very large turtles, my mother and I hurried past, saw two 14-inch computer-sized groups of turtles playing freely, they happily shuttled between us, and did not seem afraid of the crowd. I hurriedly took out my cell phone to take pictures of these cute big green guys, and one of my favorite pictures was of a little turtle swimming in the water, he looked like he was swimming in a breaststroke, and the little turtle put his limbs forward and pushed back. Sometimes he would accidentally turn his head around but he would climb up and continue swimming. The shell of the little turtle is only so big that my brother’s hand may have just been born soon, very cute. He swam with the group of turtles and it seems that he is very happy. After taking a few different photos, I found that they seemed to have had enough of it here, and that they were leaving us leisurely and starting to play elsewhere. The water temperature is not so cold and not so hot and very comfortable, I have no proof but I think that should be why there are turtles here.
We also went to a dead volcano, which was hundreds of meters high. More than a thousand years ago it stopped erupting, we spent half an hour climbing to the top of the mountain to see the very magnificent scenery below the mountain, the left side of the mountain is the blue sea, there are several sailboats on the sea, there is a yacht. White waves beat the rocks on the shore, flying in mid-air with a flock of seagulls. To the right of the mountain is the mountains, the triangular mountains are rolling, but when you climb to the top of the mountain you will feel the top of the mountain is flat. From a distance, those mountains will look like green triangles. The mountains are connected to each other, and the outward side is very steep, like a very high wall, like a great wall. The side of the direction is not so steep, in case there are not so many stones and trees without the car can go up on their own.
Also, one of the things that impressed me was the Gurlane Ranch. It’s a very big place, with 4000 hectares, where many famous films are made. The whole place is grass, and there’s a bull bar on the left and right of each small plot, usually on the road, which is used to get people to drive in to visit The Gullane Ranch. Because there are so many cattle in there, this place looks like a ranch, so it’s called The Gullane Ranch. We saw where the film was shot, which included Jurassic Park, Fifty Loves, and Godzilla. I’ve also seen many of the props that made the film, such as the giant footprints of the Godzilla Monster, and the bones of the Jurassic Park dinosaurs. I’ve heard a lot of interesting movie stories, like seeing the dinosaurs in the background in the Jurassic dinosaurs are cattle, and Godzilla’s big footprints used to be three inches deep, but now only a few inches deep, because the cow can fall and be injured, and there are many more interesting stories.
This is my first time to Hawaii with my family, I think every place I go to is worth it, I want to go to another next year. This journey is so wonderful that I feel reminisced.