Day 4: Big Beach Day

We seem to be keeping time with home, so we wake up before 7 every day and we’re ok with that – we seem to run our day about 3 hours ahead of everyone else and we like it! Today the sun was up shortly after we were, and that got us excited for the beach!

After breakfast at home – which, an aside here – this place we are staying is working out so great. We have averaged two meals ‘in’ and one meal out/day. Note that food costs here are horrendous, but you know that going in. It seems even the most basic meal out – like, two salads or two simple fish sandwiches , is $30. It’s ok, it is what it is…but that said, having breakfast and coffee here before heading out, and then making simple dinners has been wonderful. We switch over to a huge hotel next Tuesday, so we won’t be able to do that then, so we’re taking advantage of it now.

Plus, I like to cook and lately life has been so crazy I’ve not been able to cook much at all – teaching or taking yoga in the evenings, there have been many’a “open a can of soup” nights for us. It’s so nice to have such lovely, fresh, summery food to cook at our own pace, no rush.

Anyhow, we headed out by 9 a.m. and drove to Big Beach in Makena. It is one, BIG beach! Again, arriving before most, we showed up to a sparsely populated beach and spent about 3 hours boogie-boarding, reading, listening to music and just staring at the sea. The waves were just right, though we both got a little beat up by the surf at times from either not paying attention or it just getting ahead of us.

So, riddled with sand in all kinds of places, we headed back to Kihei for lunch at Pita Paradise - a nice, simple, healthy lunch. We did a little shopping/stopping before heading back to our hotel for some pool time. And again, being off everyone else’s schedule, no one was here and we had the place to ourselves. After downtime, we headed out to Sansei Sushi upon the recommendation of our friend Carol who was here a couple weeks ago. It was delicious! Evening brought us back to relax at our place…

Our friends Todd & Tanya arrived here today – a happy accident, they had a trip planned here which overlaps with ours now until we head home. We hope the weather is good and we’ll see them tomorrow!

Below: Us on the beach, and our hotel "private" pool...