Our kids have known for a long time that Byron and I were going to Maui for our winter getaway. We decided back in December to take them with us but we kept it a secret for a while. On my birthday we ate at Blue Iguana and broke the news to the kids. They were of course so excited and they had about a month to wait until the big trip. When I was talking with my Mom about our trip we discovered they would be in Maui at the same time as us. Our trips overlapped by a few days. We booked into the same condo unit they were staying at and had a great time hanging out with them a little bit while we were there. Best Spring Break ever!!!
Byron and the kids out walking the beach in front of the condo, Maui Sunset, we stayed at. It was a great condo complex. Great pool, tennis courts, beach front, tide pools....lots of fun.
My Dad after drinking his morning green smoothie. The kids really wanted one the first morning we were there, they declined every morning thereafter. Apparently spinach, broccoli, banana, cauliflower smoothies are not for them.
Byron and Carter after snorkeling at our favorite beach. The beachfront at the Days Inn Oceanside hotel is one of if not the best snorkeling beach we have found on Maui. We love it there. We always see sea turtles, eels and lots of colorful fish. We have seen sting ray, octopus and always new things. This beautiful shell Byron was holding still had a little snail living in it so they put it back. We also found a giant conch shell on our last snorkel this trip. It was gorgeous and of course still had it's snail inside so it stayed behind as well.
Little Ally jumped onto the plane heading for Hawaii with a blazing fever of 104. So sad! We drugged her up with ibuprofen and off we went. She was sick for around four days. As long as we kept up on her ibuprofen she was our happy go lucky Ally. When we began to wonder if she was over her fever and cut back on the ibuprofen she would wither like a little flower and pretty much stop in her tracks. This was a photo from the middle of a beach walk, her drugs wore off and she was just done. Ally and I sat and waited for the boys to finish their hike while her medicine kicked back in. Twenty minutes later she was back. Racing around the tidal pools and jumping over waves. This girl loves the beach as much as her mom.
This is my parents out on the rocks looking in the tide pools. They spent a good thirty minutes at least out discovering new things. I found what I thought was a beautiful piece of sea glass out on this walk. Sea glass is what I collect whenever we are beach hunting. It turned out to be a tobacco pipe of some sort. I was going to toss it back out when I discovered what it was but my family convinced me to keep it so I am the proud owner of a pretty handblown glass pipe. I'm not quite sure how I feel about that. It would make more sense if I was in California to fine a drug pipe in the waves.
The flight to HI was great. It took a while, we had a layover since there are no direct flights from UT anymore. We got there late, we thought our rental car company was going to close on us since when we called them during our layover they said they wouldn't stay open late for us. What? Can they do that? When we got there we had Byron run ahead and we did eventually find our shuttle over to the rental company, they ended up staying open for us and all was well. The kids were excited to get their eyeballs on the island but it was pretty dark as we were driving into the hotel. Ally of course wanted to hit the beach the first second we got there but we were all so tired, it was around three in the morning our time. We were very impressed with the condo and found a surprise pull-out bed in the family room. That was a big hit. We had two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a deck overlooking the beautiful ocean and a great kitchen/living room area. It couldn't have been more perfect. We opened up one of the storage closets and it was full of beach chairs, bogey boards, coolers and beach toys. What? It was a surprise and we used them all well.
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