Being on Maui is fun. Visiting California is fun also! Especially for a wedding. First wedding of the year was Curtis cousins Erik and Bree's wedding on February 13, 2016. I spent a lot of my time with the bride, who seriously was the most beautiful bride I have ever seen. Also I spent time with my family, although there is NEVER enough time. Here's some pics from that trip, didn't capture everything because I was busy having fun.
If you ever have the time and opportunity to visit Lanai, Maui county, you should do it! It costs $30/direction to take the ferry from Lahaina, Maui to Lanai. For $10/direction, Issac will drive you in the shuttle from the harbor to Lanai city. He'll tell you that Blue Ginger is a really good place to catch a meal; no one ever complains. What he may not tell you is that Blue Ginger makes home baked pastries this at will melt your mouth and fill your belly! I tried a breakfast sandwich that was divine. The town is little, cute and everyone is so friendly. Back to the harbor area is the Four Seasons, which is waaaay too rich for my blood, although if you're not staying there they'll still let you catch a drink at their bar for $12-15 or so. More likely visitors will be camping at the beach, like we did. Lanai residents can camp right on the beach, visitors from anywhere else camp on the grass right behind the beach and are welcome to swim in the ocean.
We arrived the day before and stayed in Lanai city with our friend Christina. Right when I got there I rode with Issac to Lanai City. After getting my welcome to Lanai shoot of tequila, I was swept away to another house to my first Passover dinner. It was amazing. I posted below a pic of tsimmis, which means ENOUGH, I think. I don't remember everything because Passover dinner involves a lot of wine. We went back to Christinas house and got ready for the wedding.
On Saturday, I woke up before everyone else and took a walk around town. It was quiet and cozy. Everyone that passed by me waived our threw up a Shaka. We packed the pickup and made our way to the beach. We quickly unloaded and began to shuttle people off the am ferry to the beach. DO NOT BRING ALCOHOL ON THE BEACH. LOCALS WILL CALL THE POLICE AND LOSE THE ALOHA SPIRIT!!! They really don't want riffraff there.
At about 5pm, my husband married our friends on the beach. Robbie and Shelby had a beautiful wedding and we bbq'd after. The following morning we woke up and swam with dolphins.
Lanai is magic. Practice pono, respect for the land and its people. Enjoy the water, beach and be thankful for aina and mana.
Spear fishing is really fun. It's pointing a spear at a fish and letting the spear go, stabbing the fish. First two times I went, I got nothing. Third time though we went to black sand beach in Makena, way out on the reef. I hit a Kole fish, or a yellow eyed surgeonfish. Apparently the water magnifies everything, especially the fish I was hunting. What looked like a dinner plate below me ended up being about the size of a baseball. Also, I was really scared because the other two people with me, my husband and our friend Robbie, had swam father than they could hear me. All I could think about is: SHARKS CAN SMELL BLOOD MILES AWAY. I held the fish out of the water on the spear and swam to the guys. Oh I never lived that down. Below are some of the riches of the ocean. We thank the ocean for our catch and are grateful for the opportunity to hunt for our own food.
Omg. I had the best visit with my mom. She landed on July 23 and staying through August 6. It was so much fun. We stayed up late, went to the lavender farm, swam at the beach so much, went snorkeling a few times, ate conveyer belt sushi, and drove the Road to Hana, stopping at every single spot she wanted. We even woke up super early one morning to watch the sunrise from Haleakala, the top of the world. Turns out my mom is a really brave snorkeler. We saw turtles, eels and a flounder at Slaughterhouse beach, at Honolua Bay. My mom went one day to visit her friends in Kihei and they took her stand up paddle boarding and to the yacht club in Lahaina. My mom also went to the aquarium and the sugarcane museum. I wish she could have stayed forever. I loved having her visit and showing her my life. Love you Momma!
