Roxie has wanted to go to Hawaii for many years and was trying to coordinate her side of the family going also. I finally told her we should just schedule a time and they could then have a target to shoot for. We chose a time that covered Roxie’s birthday, our granddaughter’s birthday and our anniversary, it was also pretty close to my birthday. We also decided to take our granddaughter with us. Unfortunately, it was not conducive to take the Airstream.
We scheduled 5 nights on Maui. After a very cramped airline flight, we arrived in humid Maui. Here is the view from our hotel room near Lahaina.
On our second day, it was Paige’s (granddaughter) birthday so we surprised her with a Zipline tour. She and I both went on the lines. We had a good time but I got stuck on one of them. I came in very fast, even after following the hand directions, I hit the limit of the line, smacked the springs and shot back down the line. Stuck in the middle over a canyon. It was not traumatic, I just worried about taking up time from the others. Here we are on top of a hill:
Another ‘Hawaiian’ tourist thing to do is go to a luau, which we did also:
One day we drove the road to Hana. We got a photo by a grove of bamboo:
We had the same airline flight back, Roxie wants to go first class next time! Our son picked up Paige from SFO as she had high school orientation the next day! We stayed to visit our other grandchild (Atlas) for a few days.
We had a good time in Hawaii and will go back sometime to a different island. I think we would like to avoid August as it was very humid and our last day was somewhat impacted by a tropical storm to the south of the big island.
