Maui Part 2

On Saturday we went to a swap meet at the college. There were a ton of vendors! They sold everything from fresh flowers and fruit to jewelry and wind chimes! We found a lot of great deals on souvenirs! After that we went beach hopping on South Maui! We snorkeled at a few of them and just sat on the beach and enjoyed the sunshine at others!

Wailea Beach was our favorite beach!


Alex was off to snorkel the second we got there!


On Sunday we went and walked around the Whaler's Village! It was a huge shopping center! We got some really good ice cream sundaes at Hagan Daas! Mine was called the Islander! It had coconut, pineapple ice cream, macadamia nuts, fudge and short bread cookies! It was so good that we went back a few days later to get more!


That night we went to the Royal Lahina Luau!


They smoked this Kalua pig in an underground oven called an Imu! It was delicious!

It was awesome to watch all of their traditional dances but the fire dancer was our favorite by far!

The next morning we went on a snorkel cruise to Molikini! I don't have our CD of pictures with me so i will have to write a post on that later!

Maui Part 1

I can't believe that it has been over a month since Al and I got back from our trip! I also can;t believe that it has taken so long to find time to blog about it! Maui was so beautiful i hope that we get to go back some day! The first few days we were there the weather was actually not what you would picture when you think of Hawaii! So we spent the first few days sight seeing!

We stayed at the Mahana in Kaanapali!


Kaanapali Beach


Maui Ocean Center



It was so awesome! we got to see so many bright and colorful fish!


After the Ocean Center we went snorkeling in Honalua Bay.
It was the first time either of us has ever snorkeled so it was a good learning experience!


We had to take a short hike down to the water. It felt like we were in a jungle!
The trees were huge!


The next day we went to Iao State Park. We had planned to spend the whole day there but it only took half an hour to see the whole thing! The pointy mountain is called the Iao Needle.


We bought a pineapple and a strawberry papaya at this cute fruit stand that was off the side of the road. The lady cut them up for us and we ate them on our drive! It was the best pineapple I've ever had!


Since we had more time we drove around the North West corner of the island. We stopped at these really cool tide pools! There were fish and even little hermit crabs in them!



After the tide pools we stopped at this blow hole!

Well that's all for now! Check later for more!