THE Andrea

Sunday, July 13th
We woke up at 2am. Why such weird hours, you may wonder? We have to get ready to head up to Haleakala for the sunrise. We managed to get out of the condo just before 3am, and started our 2+ hour drive up the volcano. The volcano is 10,023 feet, and the drive [...]

Saturday, July 12th
Mike woke up at 6am to see if he could find us a snorkeling cruise out to Molokini Crater. He found one with Pacific Whale Foundation @ 7:45. We got lucky. The boat we were on usually holds 100 ppl, but for whatever reason we only had 22. It made for a great [...]

Friday, July 11th
The usual morning. We actually went to the beach at our condo for the first time and took a dip and a snorkel. The waves were pretty rough out there so I didn’t snorkel too much. I ended up just hanging out in the water enjoying the waves smacking into me. No, seriously, [...]

Thursday, July 10th
Mike had to get up early for scuba. So, I slept in… til 8:30 even!  Did the morning thing of breakfast on the lanai. Then I proceeded to lay on the bed with my ipod to listen to an audiobook. And of course, I fell back alseep until 12:30.  When Mike got back [...]

Wednesday, July 9th

Had the “usual” morning of breakfast on the lanai. How easy such things become the norm. “Yes, I lounge about on my lanai to eat my meals, while I look upon the beautiful water and beach, don’t you?” Slowly - very slowly - we started to get ready for the Road to Hana. [...]

Tuesday, July 8th
After breakfast on the condo’s lanai, we walked all of 100 feet or so to Snorkel Bob’s to rent me some snorkel gear. We then got ready, and headed to Honolua Bay for some snorkeling. We were using our Maui Revealed guide and we weren’t completely sure where it was. On the way [...]

Monday, July 7th
I woke up at 7:15am. I didn’t sleep so great cuz I was too worried that I wouldn’t hear my cell’s alarm. Got ready, and then went downstairs to meet up with the airport shuttle at 7:45am. I didn’t want to wake the girls, but I was able to say ciao to Erika [...]

Sunday, July 6
We were supposed to go to Pearl Harbor, but Michelle stayed up a bit late after the wedding, so didn’t wake up early enough. Since all tours leave at 6:30am, we couldn’t do that either. So, Erika & Sharon bought a tour for Tuesday, after I’d be gone. Eventually we did hook up [...]

Saturday, July 5th
Ahhh.. the wedding day. How I do love weddings. (that’s sarcasm)
Sharon left the hotel really early to go get ready for the wedding with all the other bridesmaids. Erika and I eventually got up, went & got our breakfast as usual, and then slowly got ready for the wedding. Once we were done [...]

Friday, July 4th
Again, fuzzy on the morning details. But I remember that Sharon was at the wedding rehearsal and Erika and I split a pizza and a salad at Wolfgang Puck Express. At some point we met up with Sharon, Dorothy, and Michelle. Michelle dropped the rest of us off at Diamond Head State Monument. [...]