Sunday Aug 2, Monday Aug 3 and Tuesday Aug 4
Well, Sunday we visited with Aunt Janet in the morning. Rhonda came over too–coffee and computer technical support. Gary fixed up her access on a new hp notebook that has a detachable screen. Got her on Aunt Janet’s wifi and also got her Office 360 activated. We had a nice visit.
Then we packed a little lunch and walked on the beach walk along the ocean. Through the fancy hotels. Found a couple of geocaches and ate lunch at a covered trolley stop where it was shady. The sun is ever present here on Maui. Warm too! We walked about 2 miles and got a lot of our steps for the day. Upon return, Gary took a short nap while Joyce went to the nearby park and spent time in the ocean.
When Joyce got back we had finally persuaded Aunt Janet to try getting on facebook. So, we helped her set up an account and make the privacy very restricted. Then got her children and Joyce on as friends. It took a while for Joyce’s first post to be seen, but then Aunt Janet had a call from Kurt when he got her invitation. So we showed her around some more on facebook.
Sunday evening we went to the Ka’anapali Beach Hotel to watch Rhonda’s daughter Courtney (and Aunt Janet’s granddaughter) hula dance with two others and a live Hawaiian band. Had some pupu (appetizers….!) and a pizza along with the local beer Bikini Blonde. Mom was disappointed in the beer and said she hoped if we got something else it was a bit more robust!
Bedtime came early again. Then it was Monday morning!
We took a walk on Monday morning to the nearby park to show Aunt Janet what this geocaching thing was about. We had scouted out the one in the park and knew we could find it. Although Aunt Janet has no intention of geocaching, she had her curiosity satisfied.
On the way back we stopped at the Farmers Market to get a pineapple.. The guys doing the selling were very good at working the crowd and we also got some coconut macaroons for our travels on down to Kihei (key-hay) where we will spend 10 more days as we explore Maui.
Gary spent a while updating Aunt Janet’s old Vista computer to make it work some better. Did Windows updates and set up her Google Chrome browser to make it easy for her to get email and facebook access. Also put on a shortcut to my photography web site so she can easily find the family pictures.
We left about noon for the drive to Kihei stopping along the way to get a couple of geocaches and see what passes for a lighthouse on Maui. Got to our condo rental a little early and so we checked out the nearby shopping center. Had lunch about 2:30 PM. BLT for Gary and tuna salad for Joyce. Walked back to the condo and unloaded the car and get settled in.
We had decided on the way down to go to Haleakala to see sunset from the volcano. The drive up was nice and winding. It’s about 45 miles from where we’re staying and took about 90 minutes. Had plenty of time to check things out, get a couple of caches on the way up , eat our dinner and see some clouds and a sunset. The drive back down was in the dark with only a couple of other cars seen. They wanted to go faster, so we let them pass by pulling of into a view area..
It was late when we finally called it a day–almost midnight after watching the weather and the Tonight show.
More on Tuesday later.