*Walking on the beach one night after sundown with our three kids, stargazing (Cassiopeia and Orion) and recounting our favorite Maui stories, like when Gar proposed to me on the airplane on Christmas Eve, and when he lost the keys to our rental car at while cliff diving at the Seven Sacred Pools past Hana. The kids were afraid of the dark at first, and the ocean does look totally different at night, even with the lights from the hotels glowing softly down onto the beach. But we held their hands and made them laugh and had a wonderful time sharing our family stories with them on our favorite beach in the world!
*Snorkeling with two enormous sea turtles! And seeing those two huge whales slap their tails just off Black Rock while we were walking down to go snorkeling!
*Caroling on the balcony on Christmas Eve, as always, and the crepe party at our place on Christmas Day
*taking daily naps with Spencer, who had the flu pretty bad but only let it keep him down a day or two. He needed lots of naps though between the morning beach and afternoon pool workouts, so Gar or I would curl up with him on the sofa in the front room and he'd fall asleep snuggled up next to us while we watched football, Elf or Harry Potter on tv.
*the impromptu family talent show out by the pool, featuring our family version of "Sur la Ponte d'Avignon" and Maggie, Haley and Gracie's 12 days of Mormon Christmas which they made up themselves. They included five Jesus dolls (?). It was the hit of the night!
*playing our family games: the Name Game, Balderdash (aggressively aging aardvarks, anyone?) Take Two, Five Crowns and Scum
*watching the kids, who are older and more independent now, make their own Maui memories with each other
*adding a new dimension to the trip with Morgan and Vadim
*seeing Glenn Beck and entourage at church on Sunday sitting four rows ahead of us
*Honolua Bay and the Blow Hole - such beautiful places!
*the classic Mindy Moment of Gary reading our travel itinerary as we were packing to leave... and realizing that I had told everyone we had to leave on Sunday when we really had tickets to leave on MONDAY night...good thing he thought to check before we actually drove in to the airport! LOVED that extra 24 hours in paradise!!! Seriously though, between that and the Infamous Passport Fiasco on our way to Ireland, it has not been a good year for me as far as my wits are concerned!
*Our last dinner at Leilani's with Nana and Papa (our treat for once!), watching our last Maui sunset, then hurrying home for one last swim in the pool before loading our car and heading for the airport
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment