Maui Day 2

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November 29th

Sarah’s Entry

    Up before 6 to lather up with the sunscreen and head over to Maalaea to catch the Fourwinds II to snorkel at Molokini crater.

    The snorkel trip was great.  We had perfect weather.  They had bagels and pineapple for breakfast.  I found some chunky peanut butter to put on a cinnamon bagel.  I then coerced Derek into signing up for Snuba.  This is a stretch considering he has freaked out at the last two snorkeling attempts.  We had to sit through a half hour class while the boat was headed out to the crater.  We paused in the middle to see a whale tail and some bottle nose dolphins that were playing with the ship.

    We chose to be the second group of snuba’ers.  Two reasons, second group was smaller and to give Derek time to get his mask adjusted properly.  We hopped in to snarkel, took a few shots and then the camera died.  I don’t believe it will recover.  Derek was still having problems with leakage due to his mustache, but when the dive instructer heard he was about to back out he took extra care trying to get everything fight for him.  After 15 minutes of panic he got it all working and we had an amazing time under the water. 

    By the time we came back up everyone else had already eaten and all that was left was the pulled pork, which was fine with me.  Paired with white wine and more Maui chips it hit the spot.  Derek found he likes  Coors and since I agreed to drive he had 5 of them.  He was calling them “Coors Heavy” since they weren’t coors light. Lol.  On the way back to to the harbor we spotter 3-4 green sea turtles.

    After we left the boat and got our top down and dance tunes cranked up.  We (I) headed down and around to Ioa valley to see the needle.  It was gorgeous and breathtaking.  On the way back to town we stopped at a stand and Derek picked up a whole loaf of  Banana bread.  Next stop was Island Papery a scrapbook store.  I picked up just a few nice embellishments to put my book together.  I grabbed a regular shave ice to split with Derek and that turned out to be a mistake… way more sugar than I can handle.

    Now a nap for me and Monday Night Football for D before dinner at Little Italy.

    Dinner was good, we ended up changing seats because there was a family with small children that I wasn’t in the mood to deal with.  We took our deserts to go and on leaving the Maitre D told us he had moved two more couples away so we didn’t feel so bad. 

    After a quick dip in the hot tub we weren’t back to the cabin to mess with pictures before going to the comedy show.  Only once we got in bed we never got out again.  I ended up watching Star Trek and Derek fell asleep.





Derek’s Entry

    Up early again to head out to snorkel.  For the record I didn’t want to do it.  Snorkeling has never went well for me.  Turns out it wasn’t too bad this time.  Signed up for Snuba but was going to pass on it.  The dive instructor though talked me into it.  I had to smother my mustache with Vaseline to stop the water from seeping in.  It took me 15 minutes of the 30 minute dive to quit freaking out and enjoy the views.  Once I got accustomed to breathing through a tank and remembered how to make myself sink more into the water it was great.  Once back on board the Fourwinds I had myself 5 Coors and some pulled pork and chips. 

    Sarah drove us back from there and we stopped by the Iao needle afterwards.  It was a beautiful view.  Stopped and got us some Maui banana bread, awesome!!  Went back to the ship and Sarah went down to take a nap and I headed to watch some MNF at 3:30 in the afternoon.  Seemed weird but it was all good with a tall Bass in hand. 

    Off to dinner at Little Italy, with a stop by  Napa wine bar for a double champagne from happy hour to take to dinner.  Got sat behind a family with little kids that were loud and asked to be moved.  Glad we did, then we headed off to the hot tub and then a drink at Lanai for happy hour.  I passed out while Sarah watched Star Trek.