Mood:
happy
aloha all! we're having a wonderful time in maui :) unfortunately the weather isn't all that it could be (lots of rain...that's what we get for coming at the rainy season), but it's always warm, which has been great. here's a little recap of what we've been up to.
saturday: after many long flights, we arrived on maui, waited in a long line for our rental car, drove around for an hour looking for the condo, then fell immediately to sleep after we found it.
sunday: woke up at 5:50 am to the sound of what seemed like birds being massacred outside our window. apparantly the birds need to scream at the top of their lungs as soon as the sun might be coming up sometime soon. after a strong cup of coffee...went for a walk by the ocean, which is just a hop skip jump from our condo, then for a nice brekky complete with feral chicken running around. then drove around for a bit and went shopping (b/c it was raining), then had delicious thai dinner.
monday: woke up to birds. drove up to haleakala, the not-currently erupting volcano, because we heard that the view was supposed to be amazing...sadly, we didn't get to find out b/c it was soooo foggy and rainy that we couldn't see a thing. we decided to chill in the car for awhile (we're trying to embrace hawaii time) and see if it cleared...sadly, it got worse. so we drove the 2 hours back to town without seeing the supposedly amazing view of the crater. spent the afternoon in lahaina - adorable town! we had drinks by the water and then yummy burgers (veggie for me) at a diner before heading home.
tuesday: woke up at the crack of dawn, to birds, again. e watched the weather and decided that we'd have better luck at the volcano today, so we headed back up to haleakala...today there was an awesome view! photo below. we didn't walk all the way down into the crater though b/c it was too foggy, but we did pass some horseback riders on their way down. next time we come to town i want to do that :) lots of people also bike down...we decided that two drives up was enough haleakala for us :) then we actually laid out by the beach while it was sunny for a couple hours, and we even took a dip in the ocean. it was wonderful! now it's raining, so e and i are enjoying some bevs out on the lanai and tomorrow we're going to do the drive to hana.
will write more soon.
aloha,
jwm
