Aloha!

Did I mention that Mike won a Hawaii trip from work???

He did - and it was amazing!  We hadn't been since our honeymoon.  Aren't the sunsets just beautiful?

The first day we got in we met Scott and Catherine (who just randomly were in Maui at the same time - it was fun :)) at Hula Grill.  We ate, walked on the beach and were suppose to watch the cliff divers jump off the cliff...but they never showed:(  

Mike windsurfed one day - which I totally would've done with him but I thought since I hadn't just enjoyed the beach yet, that I would do that while he surfed.  WRONG!  It poured, I mean poured the whole time he was out there which means I sat in the car for three hours instead.  Good thing for laptops and wireless Internet, they saved me from boredom.

Have you ever heard of Warren & Anabelle's???  It's a magic show that is seriously, AMAZING.  They picked us to help Warren out during the show which ended up being really fun!!!  There was a group of 5/6 guys that sat behind us during the show that were from Texas, they take a trip w/each other every year and said that it was their 7th time coming to the show - and it's gotten better every time.  The only thing is that you do have to plan and make reservations before you go to Hawaii because they sell out weeks/months in advance.

Mike had one place that he HAD to eat at while we were there.  Mama's fish house.  We went there (but didn't eat there) on our honeymoon.  We walked out because it was so expensive - which is so lame if you think about it!  But, we were poor college students - what else do you expect?

The view from our balcony - we had our own little beach.  I threw up on it the first day too.  The kids all had the stomach flu the day before we left and guess who got it????

Highlights of the trip were:

*Sleeping in till we felt like waking up!

*Eating shave ice every. single. day.  Local boys was hands down the best on the island.  I told Mike I want to open my own shop now.  The best was with ice cream on the bottom and with the sweet cream on top.  SO GOOD.

*Singing karaoke with Mike at Sensei's

*Snorkling

*relaxing

Lowlights of the trip were:

*The dang rain.  It rained quite a bit!

*Our excursion being cancelled because of thunderstorms :(

*Leaving!