Our trip to Maui is a great memory. One of the best things was settling into "island time" with relative ease and forgetting the responsibilities left behind with no real concern. The weather was just what we needed....sun, sun and more sun to get away from the rain, rain, and more rain we face back home this time of year. The goal was to relax and we accomplished that with flying colours!! There was no agenda of things we had to see or do outside of the road to Hana and even that wasn't an absolute. But we're glad we did our journey. This was the type of vacation that we both needed and it's alright that most days we didn't really have a plan.
Traveling with Z is not only a lot of fun, it's usually a great adventure. No serious mishaps to talk about this time and for some that might be a little boring, but I'm grateful that everything went off without a hitch. I guess if I really think about there was one incident where I had a slight panic attack while snorkelling. I was getting tired and couldn't quite get some water out of the snorkel and so I panicked and Z had to help me ashore. I swallowed a little more saltwater than I wanted to but at least I wasn't getting tumbled around the waves like a shirt in a washing machine.
Oh yeah, before I forget, our last two meals on Maui.....we went for a later breakfast to a restaurant called Castaway Cafe which is a short walk the other direction from the Westin villas (left along the walkway instead of right). This place is on the beach which is nice and the food is good, but I thought it very strange that my pancake trio which had banana, pineapple, and macadamia nuts on them would be served with canned pineapple chunks. Seriously?!?!?! Do they not know that fresh pineapples are grown right on the island???!
For dinner we (we really means Z in this case) found a great Thai restaurant called Saeng's in Wailuku. The food was pretty authentic Thai and very reasonable in price. The restaurant has a great open-air seating area and the ambience is fantastic. I highly recommend this place not only because the food is so good, it's located pretty close to the airport so a good place to stop to eat before catching your fight home.
So to sum it all up, Maui once again provided exactly what we needed and went there for....lots of sunshine, warm temperatures, good food, plenty of rest and relaxation whether poolside or on the beach. What more could one ask for?
Until next time.....
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