Day 6: Rain, then no rain...

We woke up this morning to the clunk of our outdoor swin-suit drying ‘coat rack’ tipping over on our lanai at 6:30 a.m. It was the craziest rain we’d seen yet. It looked a bit like those hurricane shots on the Weather Channel.

To compensate for my sadness about the rain, I got up and made us a kick-ass breakfast, figuring if we were stuck inside for a while we might as well enjoy it. So, I made breakfast potatoes out of Big Island yams and Maui onions, fried an egg, and then cut up pineapple to round out the local-food meal. We also finished off our Kona coffee. Yum!

At this point, we were both pretty disappointed in the weather – not that it can be controlled, of course, but still…so we decided to go to a movie at 11 a.m. and saw The Reader. Not exactly an easy breezy vacation film, but it was very well done and we both enjoyed it.

Better though was emerging to blue skies and sunshine! It was a little bit cloudy, but no rain = fun! We got beached out and headed to the Four Seasons to sit by the pool with Todd & Tanya, turned out though Todd was napping so Tanya kicked it with us for a little bit.

From there, it was only 5 p.m. so we decided to drive to lovely Lahaina. This cute seaside town is riddled with shops and restaurants, and we hit it right at sundown. It was so pretty. We walked through and saw the Banyan Tree Park that features a single tree that covers an entire block. We strolled along the boardwalk as the sun set, shot a few photos and then grabbed dinner at Kahuna Kabobs – the Ono fish kabob came on top of rice and veggies. It was tasty, though the young bucks working there did overcook the fish a tad.

From there, we headed back to Kihei and hoped for sun tomorrow!


The Four Seasons Pool; drive and then shots of Lahaina, including the huge Banyan Tree Park.