We made it!

This picture perfectly describes how the traveling part of our vacation went.

There were a few glitches along the way (one being that we were listed as stand-by instead of having confirmed tickets), so that made traveling a little stressful. As soon as we got to Maui and saw this beautiful view from my dad's condo though...



...all of stresses of traveling stand-by melted away. We spent the first evening drinking $1 mai-tais, eating the besh fish and chips I've ever had, and watching the sunset.


The next morning, we had breakfast at my sister's favorite place and were ready to start our day. I climbed a tree to shake down what looked like a dried-up banana, but sounded like a maraca when you shook it. The things you do for your kids!

At a little shop, we found this hat for Gavin that said Makena Beach. When we were driving later, we actually stumbled across this exact beach... so we had to check it out!




After that, we kept driving south of Wailea until we reached lava rock as far as your eyes could see. When stopping to take a picture, a lady pulled up behind us and offered to take one for us. After taking a few pictures, she decided to get artistic and suggested the second pose. Later, we found a picture in a store of a volcano shooting lava up in the shape of a heart. So we bought it and thought we could put the two pictures together. ;)