After driving through the central valley of Maui, we headed west for Ka'anapali. We checked into the Hyatt Resort and we refused valet or baggage handling because Steve and I are totally able to do those things on our own and I am too cheap to tip. Totally fansy pants. Chandaleirs everywhere and open corridors everywhere. There are brids of all sorts hanging out on the lobby and every nook and cranny you can find. They tell us that we should use the extras that the hotel offers since we are paying a resort fee. Tennis? Well, maybe not this time but the tea in our room, paper on our doorstep, and in room safe we used. Crazy. You can also charge anything that you do or buy in the resort to your room. Drinks by the pool? Room 720. Snacks at the shop. Room 720. Massage on the beach. Room 720. It was fun but is like a credit card that you have to pay at the end of a week.
Steve and I had a schedule here. We sailed to the island on Lanai'i on a Trilogy sailboat/catamaran. That was great fun. We took a speed boat around the island looking for dolphins which we didn't find but got to see the beautiful coast and learn a little about the island from our local guide. All food is shipped onto the island where about 2-3000 people live. Two resorts are still on the island where Bill gates was married and bought the island out for that week. People who are born there, grow up there and is one of the rare, Hawaiian places left in Hawaii. We went back to the beach, snorkelled a bit, just layed on the beach and then the crew made us dinner. On the trip back we had champagne and watched the sun set. We sat up front and got soaked from the water splashing up through the trampolines up front.
The next day we went on another sailboat trip that Mary Margaret and Jeff got us. That was awesome because they took us to a place off the southern area os the west coast and jumped right into the water to snorkel. We saw so many fish, swam right mext to turtles and through coral. That was awesome. That night we went to a luau that Roy and Julie Nelson got us as a gift. That was great to see. I learned a hula on stage, Steve ate his weight in pinapple, we saw apig come out of the ground (makes you appreciate the life given for your meal when you see that). There were hula dancers doing many different types of Hula with drums going and guys twirling fire. It was great, still kind of like Disneyland but I think it was good to learn about some of the culture of Hawaii.
The rest of the days were spent lounging on various beaches up and down the coast, watching the stars with an astronomer pointing out many interesting stars, getting a couples massage on the beach, and hanging out at the pool, sauna, and spa. We ate at the Lahiana Fish Co. which was awesome. He met this guy who talked like Boomhower that night. I tried, but couldn't hear what the was saying. We ate at an Italian Tapas place called Vino that was awesome. We had a chianti rufino that was just like the wine we drank like water in Italy.
It was marvelous. I love vacationing with Steve. He is my Honey.
Posted by andria at April 13, 2005 08:48 AM