HOME SWEET HOME!

So we're finally home!! It feels great to be here. We spent 7 wonderful days in Paradise. It's a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there. We left on Monday Sept. 29. It was my first plane trip. It wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. So I guess I'm kind of dumb when it comes to putting pictures on here. I was going to put them on in order and kind of go through our trip with you, but I'm kind of computer dumb, so just be happy you get pictures!!

These are penguins. Did you know there are penguins on Maui? I didn't. But there are, they actually lived at the hotel. Not ours, but one that we ate at.
This is Curty trying to trick me into eating shrimp, He did get me too. But that picture is later.

This is a "train" ride on the Maui Tropical Plantation. If you go to Maui and you want to bring Pineapple home, then get it from there. Everywhere else we found was about $10 a pineapple, we got 6 for $23. Airport ready. So yeah, good deal.

Another picture on the Plantation.

So I know this is kind of a random picture. But, if you look at the right of the bumper, under the #2, see those lines, how tiny they are? Well, let me tell you what happened. Last day there, right? Trying to kill some time because we had to check out by noon and our flight wasn't until 8:48 pm. So we thought we would drive around to see some different beaches. Well we are so lucky, that we got rear ended. But you can see in the picture, not that bad right? Well, we got the guys info and everything, I called the rental place and they said just come in and fill out and report when you drop the car off. So we're like ok. We were fine, everybody was fine, minor damage. So get back to drop the car off, they don't notice it, but we, being the good people that we are, tell them, and then a manager has to come look at it, and he says, yeah, turn it it. So we go in, fill everything out. We hadn't bought the insurance that covers us if someone hits us. It was like $25 a day. But we didn't even know that until we returned it. So finish filling everything out, and the lady says, ok, you'll be getting a bill in about 2-4 weeks. I was like, excuse me? It wasn't our fault. That's when she told me we didn't buy the right insurance. So I said, I'm not paying for it, and she was like well after you get the bill, you can send it to the other guys insurance to try and get them to pay. So basically if they won't pay, we have to. I'm so ticked off. I thought we were doing the right thing by telling them, because they wouldn't have even noticed if we hadn't. Anyway, that was our last day. Moving on......

This is where we ate, that had the penguins living there.

This is from the outside looking in.

There were also flamingos and swans there too.

This is the shrimp


This is the bottom of the seven sacred pools after you pass through Hana.



This is the top of them





This is a little further away.

And this is it emptying into the Ocean.

This is what happens if you're not careful on the Road to Hana.

This is on our dinner cruise. Curtis and I found out that we're not cruise ship people. I was too sick to eat. He ate, but then we just ended up sitting in the back where it's less bouncy. We took the same kind of boat when we went snorkeling, that experience was worse. I actually threw up on that ship. Well, over the edge. Yeah, we're NEVER doing that again, or anything like it.

It was beautiful though. This is from the boat.

This is on the way to Hana. We rented a motorcycle to do it, that was really good. I think that was Curtis's favorite part. I didn't get any pictures of it though. I kind a mad. I have some movie though so it's ok.
This is another waterfall on the way to Hana.
And another one.




Oh, this is the plane ride.


So is this. The very first one, that's why we're so happy.
Clouds


I just thought this was funny. This is in the airport.
Of course Curtis had to find a local officer. This guy has been driving this thing for like 10 years and they just bought him a new one for like $16,000. This little thing instead of a car. I don't know?


This was at our Luau at the Royal Lahina. Very good food, very good show. I recommend it.

We had some stole aways in our luggage. So we sent a picture to Caden. We still managed to stay under 50 pounds. I was surprised. All around it was an excellent trip. It was really long though. We were ready to come home. Thanks to my parents and everyone else who helped watch our children since this week has been a crazy one. We won't be taking a trip for a while.