Hawaii
June 13, 2023
Family vacation! Yippee!
We all arrived separately after long flights from Phoenix, Boise and DC Dulles.
Hunter, Adaline and Grady fueling up for their long flights.
Adaline’s first flight.
Smile Grady! You are in for so much fun and awesome adventures
Benjamin and William ready to get going!
And we are off to Honua Kai Resort and Spa about 20 minutes up the road from the town of Lahaina. We had 2 - 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom condos side by side.
As usual, I unpack and get settled in before I go exploring . The Phelps family headed to check out the multiple swimming pools. The Gorman family went straight to the beach. Because I did not follow my adventuresome family, I missed the sleeping seal on our beach. Unfortunately he never reappeared during the rest of the vacation.
Wednesday, June 14, 2023We explored the resort and had great beach time and multiple swimming pools
Grady and William
Jammy, Adaline, Jessica & Josh
Life is a Beach!
Ready for more beach time.
The Beach Boys:
Hunter, William, Grady & Benjamin
In the afternoon we all went to explore Lahaina. Our pet lizard bid us farewell
Jessica, Jenny and Janelle ready to explore
The fabulous and historic Banyan Tree in Lahaina was planted April 24, 1873 to make the 50th Anniversary of the first arrival of American Protestant mission. It was a gift from missionaries in India. It was only 8feet when planted and presently approximately 60 feet and rooted into 16 major trunks, apart from the main trunk, with the canopy spread over 0.66 acres.
Jessica was excited to show us all this magnificent tree that she and Josh saw when they were in Maui earlier
Jessica
William
Jammy & Benjamin
Peek a boo
Grady
Benjamin
Hunter
Thursday June 15, 2023
The Phelps family gave me the adventure of a submarine trip for my Birthday.
Grady and Hunter waiting to board the boat that took us out to the Atlantis Submarine
All aboard!
Breakfast of muffins on the boat as we head out to the submarine
Our submarine and the secondary boat to help us get aboard.
Hunter & Jammy
Janelle, Grady, Hunter and Jammy
Janelle and Grady ~ Dive Dive Dive!
A “fever” of spotted stingrays
The Atlantis sunk this old ship to form a sanctuary for fish and sea life.
Our captain was excited to have the rare opportunity to spot this leopard shark chilling on the ocean floor
Our depth at one point of the trip.
While Janelle, Hunter, Grady and I did the sub trip, the Gorman family went out on a fishing boat. This was the highlight of the trip for Master Fisherman, Benjamin !
Jessica, William, Josh & Benjamin ready for the big catch!
William caught a beautiful red fish
Jessica’s catch
Benjamin caught a Humuhumunukuapua’a, Hawaii’s state fish!
We all met up for lunch in Lahaina
In Lahaina ~ Kids with their reed angelfish and Jessica’s cool sun drenched picture
This was the home of a physician and minister, Dwight Baldwin and his wife Charlotte who came from Connecticut as missionaries to educate and bring Christianity to Hawaiians. They moved into this house in 1835. The house is constructed of stone, coral and timber. It is a museum today with the interior and exterior showing the way it looked when the Baldwins lived there.
Friday June 16, 2023
Jessica and Janelle did an early morning run and spotted a this turtle.
Beach time!
Grady learned to love the beach & ocean
Good news / bad news - Adaline had no fear
Especially with Hunter and Mommy with her!
Evening ~ Luau at Hyatt Regency
Note our cool Hawaiian turtle tattoos
Candy and sparkling sugary drinks - doesn’t get better than this!
Saturday June 17, 2023
The Gorman family and I went on the Trilogy Catamaran on a snorkeling adventure to Molokini. Molokini is a crescent shaped partially submerged volcano which forms a small, uninhabited islet. This crescent shape makes it a nice protected area for snorkeling.
In Hawaiian legend, Molokini was a beautiful woman. She and Pele, the fire goddess, were in love with the same man. The jealous Pele cut her rival in two and transformed her into stone. The woman’s head is supposedly Pu’u Olai, the cinder cone by Makena Beach.
Sailor William
William & Benjamin ready to go!
Josh
Josh and Jessica got great videos of under water creatures on the GoPro but unfortunately this blog doesn’t support videos
Sunday June 18, 2023
The Gorman family & I drove partially up the road to Hana to the Bamboo forest.
A quick stop at Jaws. Pe’ahi is the Hawaiian name for this place on the north shore of Maui.
It is a big surfer location due to the huge breaking waves.
This amazing bamboo forest is a hidden gem off the road to Hana that Jessica and Josh discovered on an earlier trip to Maui. It is part of the Pipiwai trail and has some difficult climbing areas. I only went as far as the first waterfall due to a recent knee injury but Gormans went up to 2nd fall.
Benjamin & William
Made it to the 1st falls. William and Benjamin in background
Jessica and me at first falls
Me hanging out while Gorman family continues the hike up to 2nd falls
Jessica waving from above
William & Benjamin up on top!
Back to the resort for beach time
Monday June 19, 2023
William’s pick was to go to the Butterfly Farm…so off we all went to learn about the butterflies in Hawaii
But first Adaline had to stick a pose…or 2…or 3
Gorman family took the first tour and I went with Phelps next.
Learning about what we will be seeing
One landed on Hunter
🦋
And also on Grady
Back to our last day on the beach
Benjamin made a homemade fishing rod to try to catch fish with Josh’s help
Hunter still digging
Our last night in paradise
Yippee! I was able to get a picture of my fabulous 5!
Aloha!
Tuesday, June 20, 2023
Gorman family had a very early flight back to Arizona.
Phelps family and Jenny had a Red Eye flight back to mainland so had a day to kill in Maui.
First stop, The Maui Ocean Center Aquarium
Hunter taking it all in
Wow Grady, that’s a big one
Silly Hunter & Adaline
And hard to wake up in San Francisco
First class back to the mainland. Grady was my seat mate and it did not take long for him to settle in!
At the United Club during our lay overs in San Francisco Adaline was the only one ready to start the day! But she could not get her brothers to rise and shine!!
And this was where I said my good byes to the Phelps family as they headed back to Boise and I headed back to DC Dulles.
The end of a fabulous family adventure!
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