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Friday, May 11, 2018

Aloha Spirit: starting our time

It’s been a whirlwind of activity at the start of our time on Maui: I’ll just try to give the basics.  We appreciate the Aloha Spirit, as one waiter described it: nice open friendliness.

We got a rental car from Budget, and used the Waze app to get us to our condo of Maui Kamaole in Kihei.  It was an after-hours check-in; as we got the car Margaret called and got a code so we could open a lock box with check-in materials, including a code to unlock the unit door.  It is a nice spacious unit.

With the 6-hour time difference, we were up early and were too early for one place for breakfast; we went to another for packages of coffee, and they loaned us an espresso coffeemaker.

For one errand, we went to the main mall in Kahului, and wondered about trying to get in for a meal at the highly reputed Mama’s Fish House in that direction.  We called and could get in at 3.45.  Even at that time, the place was very active, high-priced but we ate in style.  Mama’s Stuffed Fish, stuffed with lobster and crab was our choice.

In the morning, we had booked the sunrise trip to the Haleakalā volcano, picking us up at the condo at 2.15 a.m. when that wasn’t too bad while we were on East Coast time.  It meant going up to cold temperatures, and the view wasn’t too good today, but the guide shared some pictures from better days, which I’ll attach here.




Patio
Continuing to report an anniversary celebration










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