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So I guess you want to know about Maui. Fine. I'll do my best. If you're in a hurry, see the quick version (one paragraph!).
We had something like a 9am flight out of sea-tac on Hawaiian Airlines - a great airline, should you get the chance to fly it. United and Delta also fly to all the islands, but don't bother. And you get good food, too. But bring cheap headphones for the in-flight movies, because the sound is SO bad that accurate headphones bring out the badness. Hide it with cheap ones. Sounds better. 6 hours fly by when you're going somewhere cool with good seats watching Shrek.
Of course, after 6 hours was one more on an island-hopper, then finally there was Mauiage. It's disorienting for a Seattleite (satellite?) in Maui - there's hardly walls in the airport. There are no doors to the outside - just open walls. It's creepy.
We went to Lahaina (the shopping town, and the only place with a "downtown" on the island) and trudged our tired bums to Cheeseburger in Paradise and felt disoriented and full. The return trudge was much better.
We found our condo in the darkest, warmest rainstorm I've seen, and moved in.
Didn't do much on Sunday, let dad sleep, scope out the scenes, get our gear rented.
Monday: went up to Honolua bay for the supposed outrageous snorkeling and found the weather to be rainy and the water cloudy and the fish a little too friendly. Good first day. It can only go up from here. Don't remember anything else about Monday.
Tuesday: I seriously don't remember. Probably shopping. Snorkeling at Ka'anapali.
Wednesday: Haleakala? Sounds right. Maui is 2 mountains and their valley. Haleakala is the east mountain, at 10 thousand some feet, with a "lump in your throat" 7-mile long erosion crater at the top. Drove through the fog 1.5 hours to the top, saw fog for 20 minutes, then saw the CRATER. Awesome. Here I am, standing above every cloud in view, 10,000 feet in the air, looking at a tremendous crater on the best island in the world. Life is indeed good.
Thursday: Tried to do Kamo'ole I (1 of 3 Kamo'oles)beach in South Maui, but we didn't get there till noon, by which time the wind and surf were too bad to be anywhere but inland. Had good burgers at Peggy Sue's and went back up to Ka'anapali (Black Rock) because it was so good. Saw 2 turtles and a manta ray. Probably the best snorkeling of my life.
Friday: Last full day on the island. Saw the West Maui sights - Nakalele blowhole, the Dragon's Teeth (rock formations), tried to snorkel Olivine Pools but we were too tired. Mom ran over a rock on the highway. We felt it bump all the way under the rental car. Cool. Miraculously, not a scratch on that thing. God is good. Mom & Dad went to Leilani's for their $$blingin'$$ fish dinner, while Whitney and I went back to Black Rock to snorkel and get Whitney stung by a bee and subsequently shuttled to the doctor's office. She was fine.
Saturday: travel day. Longer flight, and I was riding bitch in the middle of the plane - double excuse-me seating. But we saw Spy Kids (funny! really!) and enjoyed pasta dinner, and it was all good.
I've been home 20 minutes:
You know, I tried to pose all nice and show off my tan, but that camera self-timer is so long and I was so tired....
So here I am, nearly a week later, and with plenty of interesting bits still in my head. I hope you'll hear all of them eventually. We shot a bunch of video, too. Lots of sunsets :).
So I guess I can make entries about current events can't I? You'll all let me? Yay!
Don't forget, if you want to hear more stories of my island adventure, you have to ask.
Let's go away for a while
You and I
To a strange and distant land
-Cuomo-
We had something like a 9am flight out of sea-tac on Hawaiian Airlines - a great airline, should you get the chance to fly it. United and Delta also fly to all the islands, but don't bother. And you get good food, too. But bring cheap headphones for the in-flight movies, because the sound is SO bad that accurate headphones bring out the badness. Hide it with cheap ones. Sounds better. 6 hours fly by when you're going somewhere cool with good seats watching Shrek.
Of course, after 6 hours was one more on an island-hopper, then finally there was Mauiage. It's disorienting for a Seattleite (satellite?) in Maui - there's hardly walls in the airport. There are no doors to the outside - just open walls. It's creepy.
We went to Lahaina (the shopping town, and the only place with a "downtown" on the island) and trudged our tired bums to Cheeseburger in Paradise and felt disoriented and full. The return trudge was much better.
We found our condo in the darkest, warmest rainstorm I've seen, and moved in.
Didn't do much on Sunday, let dad sleep, scope out the scenes, get our gear rented.
Monday: went up to Honolua bay for the supposed outrageous snorkeling and found the weather to be rainy and the water cloudy and the fish a little too friendly. Good first day. It can only go up from here. Don't remember anything else about Monday.
Tuesday: I seriously don't remember. Probably shopping. Snorkeling at Ka'anapali.
Wednesday: Haleakala? Sounds right. Maui is 2 mountains and their valley. Haleakala is the east mountain, at 10 thousand some feet, with a "lump in your throat" 7-mile long erosion crater at the top. Drove through the fog 1.5 hours to the top, saw fog for 20 minutes, then saw the CRATER. Awesome. Here I am, standing above every cloud in view, 10,000 feet in the air, looking at a tremendous crater on the best island in the world. Life is indeed good.
Thursday: Tried to do Kamo'ole I (1 of 3 Kamo'oles)beach in South Maui, but we didn't get there till noon, by which time the wind and surf were too bad to be anywhere but inland. Had good burgers at Peggy Sue's and went back up to Ka'anapali (Black Rock) because it was so good. Saw 2 turtles and a manta ray. Probably the best snorkeling of my life.
Friday: Last full day on the island. Saw the West Maui sights - Nakalele blowhole, the Dragon's Teeth (rock formations), tried to snorkel Olivine Pools but we were too tired. Mom ran over a rock on the highway. We felt it bump all the way under the rental car. Cool. Miraculously, not a scratch on that thing. God is good. Mom & Dad went to Leilani's for their $$blingin'$$ fish dinner, while Whitney and I went back to Black Rock to snorkel and get Whitney stung by a bee and subsequently shuttled to the doctor's office. She was fine.
Saturday: travel day. Longer flight, and I was riding bitch in the middle of the plane - double excuse-me seating. But we saw Spy Kids (funny! really!) and enjoyed pasta dinner, and it was all good.
I've been home 20 minutes:
You know, I tried to pose all nice and show off my tan, but that camera self-timer is so long and I was so tired....
So here I am, nearly a week later, and with plenty of interesting bits still in my head. I hope you'll hear all of them eventually. We shot a bunch of video, too. Lots of sunsets :).
So I guess I can make entries about current events can't I? You'll all let me? Yay!
Don't forget, if you want to hear more stories of my island adventure, you have to ask.
Let's go away for a while
You and I
To a strange and distant land
-Cuomo-
