Aloha!

Maui was awesome!!!!!
5 days in paradise, it was heavenly. We stayed on the northwest side of the island in Ka'anapali at the end of a line of hotels right along the beach. We could see the beach and the ocean from our room. The sounds of the waves and wind was constant on our trip. I can still hear them. We went up to the Haleakala Crater and watched the sunrise, biked down the winding road of the volcano and ended up back at our hotel at about 11am. Then we spent the rest of the day by the pool and the beach. The rest of the trip was spent at the Spa Moana getting Lumi Lumi massages & facials, snorkling at Black Rock (Kristin saw a huge sea turtle near the top of the water and thought it was a shark, freaked out and swallowed a bunch of sea water ), driving the Road to Hana (amazing ), Parasailing, eating great food (Kristin even tried Jens's fish ), and laying out on the beach. It definitely was the best vacation we have EVER taken. We "highly recommend". On the back of our map we found a quote.
In the 1800's, Mark Twain wrote rapturously of his vacation on Maui: "....I went to Maui to stay a week and remained five. I never spent so pleasant a month before or bade any place goodbye so regretfully. I have not once thought of business, or care or human toil or trouble or sorrow or weariness...and the memory of it will remain with me forever."

We both said, "So True!" .....some pictures....

We could have easily never come home but, we had to get back to our babies. They had a wonderful time with their Aunt Kaci and we are so grateful to her for taking such good care of them and for loving them so well. Reagan did a wonderful job at her dance recital, Briggsy's team won their soccer game and Eryn got used to a new schedule.....playing at the park, playing Pollies, jumping on the trampoline... it was "all Eryn, all the time!" Now, back to the routine for a little more than a week. We close on the 2nd and fly out either that night or the next morning. Off to our new home and new life in San Jose.