We Were On the Road to Hana...

Went on the road to Hana on Thursday. Was a fun trip in general. Brother Tom suggested doing the drive "backwards" from the usual route, which was an excellent idea.

We stopped and took some pics, and swam at a lovely 'salt & pepper' beach (where the sand is white and black). The island claimed it's bounty in ripping the Maui Jim's off my face and pulling them out to sea...

Went to a black sand beach too...it was awesome! Got some fresh coconut at a roadside stand and Magic got some new sunglasses and a chocolate malt at Hasagawa's General Store.


I especially enjoyed the winding, curving roads...the goof and sis? not so much :D Guess it's a good thing that the convertible didn't corner "that well". lol.

We laughed, we looked around, we weathered a short rain storm and some really big dump trucks running down the one lane roads...we made it to Pai'a in time to have a well deserved iced latte and a little shopping therapy. We made it back to the resort in Lahaina by sundown ;)

Aloha!

M&G

Striped Saturday Sunset

Aloha!

Had a great day today.

Woke up slowly, laughed at Goofy chasing the little birds out of the room's living room sliders.

Laughed harder when some "camp robbers" (aka canadian jays) sneaked in through the bedroom sliders and were helping themselves to the breakfast foods on the counter. They would have gotten away scot free if one of them hadn't started "arguing" about something with the other one. They are stealthy little guys...lol. Goofy nearly had a coronary...LMAO. She freaked, I was laughing and the birds were flying around the room squawking and heading for the open doors. They got a really good cinnamon roll, some butter and banana macadamia nut bread from the road to Hana. They might as well have taken whatever else was there, as it was now "contaminated" and had to be dispatched to the trash can forthwith. ROTFLOL!!! Much entertainment...for Magic anywho....

Tonight's sunset is brought to you by the letter "S" (for striped) and the number "10" (for WOW, that was a cool sunset).

Enjoy, the pics...

M&G

Maui in August

We've been having some interesting weather.

None of it bad at all, really. Just a bunch of different things.

Rain (for a bit not all day).
Sunshine (mostly.. :)
Windy (a day or two)
No wind at all (today, and boy was it hot!!!)

Yesterday we drove the entire road to Hana. Backwards of the usual crowd (thanks to Tom), and had a pretty nice day. We had a bit of rain (for a few minutes, that made the rental car very dirty...YAY!), but mostly it was sunny and on the "other side" of the island it was pretty mild in temperature.

I personally, loved the winding roads the best...not everyone's favorite, and I coulda used a better cornering car, but it was fun nonetheless ;)

We went swimming at Hamoa beach - where i lost my Maui Jim's (guess the island wanted them more than I did). Then we checked out the black sand beach too. Stopped at a stand and got some fresh coconut (yum). Stopped as Hasagawa's General Store to get me some new shades (lol), then went on the long and winding road.

Got into Pia'a in time to do some shopping and made it back to Ka'anapali just as the sun was setting...

Long day, but very very nice...

I'll post more pics as I go along...

aloha...

M&G

Slow internet connection for Macs....

Hey All.

Just wanted to check in now that I've figured out how to fix the internet here...Bah! Guess the router I have isn't "advanced" enough for the Macs (lol), but whatever the heck it is, I wasn't able to surf very well for the last several days

So...I'll be posting pics later on tonight...

For now, gotta head to Whaler's for some burgers at the Hula Grill :D

Later gators!

M&G

One View of Happiness...

I was sent this link by a friend. At first, I was thinking..."oh, no, another boring wedding video", but then I watched it a bit longer.

Really, isn't this the joy that everyone should have when going into a marriage? it just exudes joy!

Take a look and enjoy.



M&G

Goofy Gets Cool Pics of the Angels

Yesterday, Goofy and friends headed on down to the lake to watch the Blue Angels practice for the SeaFair festivities over the weekend.

Got some great pics too...

She tried her hand at doing some video with the G9 :) turned out really well i think :D



Just Above the trees...woohoo!



On the deck...look close



Swooping down toward the lake...




Blahville in the background ...



Upside down...



Almost gone...




Seattle loves the Blue Angels...WooHoo!

Just sayin' ;)