MAUI

A few weeks ago, we enjoyed a great trip to Maui! We saved up some points on our credit card, so we ended up getting 6 free nights at the Westin Kaanapali Villas. The rooms each had a stove, fridge, and even a washer and dryer!


Here is our hotel and the pool in the background. Sometimes on trips, we tend to have activities planned each day, but we told ourselves that the last day, we would just sit back and relax by the pool. We even saw a whale breach (jump completely out of the water) as we were looking out at the ocean from our hotel.


Our pork dinner at the Lahaina Luau. It was good food.

We loved the all you can drink smoothies!

Black Rock. We did a few different snorkeling trips, and we found an awesome beach that had the most colorful fish I have ever seen! Yes, we were probably the whitest people on the beach, but we both got some sun which we definitely needed.

We of course had to play a game of tennis.

There were amazing sunsets each night.

Driving along the northwest coast of Maui. We drove until we hit a one lane road with cliffs where you had to try to pass other cars without falling off the road. It was quite an adventure. We decided to turn around after a couple of miles of that.

North Kaanapali beach right in front of our hotel. Great snorkeling.

Iao Needle

Iao State Park.

Haleakala Crater. Let's just say that Dave and I don't have the best of luck when it comes to volcanoes and weather. We got up at 2:45 AM to see the sunrise, but you can see that it was just a little rainy and cloudy. At least we weren't with the bike tours that rode their bikes down the volcano in the cold and rain. We drove down after a couple of hours, and the weather cleared out so that we could see amazing views of the east and west coast of Maui!

Notice the rainbow!

Whale watching. This is the fin of a humpback whale slapping on top of the water. December through March is a great time to see whales. They travel all the way from Alaska in the winter months.