Monday, June 25th, 2018…… Jeff
and Krista decided to go out by themselves for breakfast. The rest of us ate
in. We still have a ton of food! Later, Jeff and Krista and Randy and Maryanne
walked down to Kihei beach to sun and swim. They said later it was nice but got
very windy and they had sand going where they didn’t want it!
More misc. pics....
We went to a local market style mall with
little kiosks to buy souvenirs and then stopped at Foodland for more stuff for
dinner. We wanted to clean out the fridge a bit while all eight of us were
still here, and we had eggs and bacon so we made breakfast burritos for dinner!
We spent the day lounging in and around the pool and spa. Then it was back to
the airport. Penny and Randy & Maryanne had 8:45pm and 10:00pm redeye
flights back home. We said our goodbyes and then went back home and got back into
the spa and had a few more drinks before bed.
Tuesday, June 26th, 2018…… Jeff
and Krista had a snorkeling trip booked this morning so Frances and I drove
them over there. We came back and ate breakfast and then the three of us took off to explore
more of the island. We drove back past
Lahaina and on to Kaanapali and Napili Beach. We found the Westin Maui where we
had stayed before. They have a new
entrance and it looked a bit more exclusive than when we were there. We drove
farther north and hit the beach road back to Kaanapali. We stopped at a really
pretty park, with actual open parking spaces! We hit the beach, which was not
an actual black sand beach, but it did have lava rock mixed in so it was pretty
dark. We got in and then walked a bit around the shore. We saw a giant sea turtle swimming just a few
feet offshore. Pictures looked like
seaweed in the water so they are not posted. But we did take some of Frances
and us goofing off.
After about an
hour or so, we rinsed off and cleaned up as best as we could and then headed
back to wait for the snorkeling boat to return with Jeff and Krista. Krista
said she was terrified but, again, she relaxed and did well and had a great
time out there! She's the best! On the way back, I
stopped at Maui Brewing Company, and we sampled and purchased a few beers. We were all hungry so we ate an early
dinner. We chose Fred’s Mexican Cantina.
It was just ok but all of us ate too much anyway! Then it was back to the house
for our last night there! We took advantage of the pool and spa once
again.
Wednesday, June 27th, 2018…… We
had an 11:00am checkout time so we gauged for that and left right at 11. I had
to drive over to Greenfield Diamonds, Andre's retail store, in the Wailea Shopping Mall,
to return the house key. We had managed to clean up the place and we think
we did a pretty good job. The girls even
did the bath towels and all of the beach towels. (We later got a thank you note
from Andre. I’m guessing his maid staff
must have given us a thumbs up because he said we left everything as we found
it.)
We took Frances
to the airport ahead of her 1:25pm flight back home, and, on the way, we even managed to find a
couple of street folks with their shopping carts who were really grateful to get
the food we had packaged up just for that purpose. We hated to throw anything
away so this worked out for everyone! We decided that since we had time (our
flights both left later that night) that we would drive the Road to Hana. We had been before but Jeff and Krista
hadn’t. This was the only time I didn’t
want to be driving a big minivan! It
seemed like the vegetation was eating us up as we wound our way toward Hana. It is a 40+ mile trip plus time
from the airport so we only managed to get about 90% up the road before we
needed to turn around to start back. The
traffic was heavy and it was lucky we turned around went we did. We did stop
and take pictures of the views and the falls though and it was a fun time.
On
the way back to the airport, we stopped for a quick bite. We chose a highly
rated pizza place and went in. Uggh! But we stayed anyway and waited for our
orders. It’s a place we would not go back to. But at least we were full for the
flight home. I reversed the process and
dropped everyone off and took the car back to Avis (only one question about
scratches on the passenger side – which were just marks from plants and came
right off with a little rubbing, and they never said anything about the key fob so we were good to go ). I shuttled back and
met Lydia and we checked our bags and met the kids and sat with them until
their flight left. Then we went to our gate and boarded a few minutes later.
Our flight home was 5 hours but we went to SFO and then 1 ½ more to Portland. With the time change, we got in to PHX at 8:30am. My sister decided that she and Daisy were
going to drive up to Portland and pick us up so she cancelled the return shuttle
we had booked.
Thursday, June 28th, 2018…… As mentioned, we
didn’t get in until Thursday morning around 8:30am. We each tried to sleep on the flights but
neither of us were successful. I drove us all back to the Hut and we went in to
make sure they credited my account since we cancelled. Penny had dropped off her car there before
they came up so they could go to Costco and we could drive straight home. We did stop and picked up lunch and then made
it back to the house about 11:30am. By then, Daisy had packed up and moved over
to Penny’s so we had a quiet rest of the day with Rylee. I unloaded all of the luggage and got that
put away and then got caught up on all of the mail.
Lydia managed to take a few catnaps while watching tv (and Rylee). I
went in and laid down for a while on the bed. I didn’t get up until 16 hours
later the next day!
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