A Very Maui Christmas, Part I
In past years I’ve watched in awe as people have departed Kobe on the last day of school, which is a half day. I’ve often thought they were ambitious, and when people did it with kids, I thought they were crazy.
Well, this year we attempted it as well, but not because we wanted to, but because if we wanted to cash in our sweet, sweet vouchers from getting bumped last year, they had to be used within a year, so the 18th it was!
Luckily our flight didn’t leave until 9pm, which put us on the 5:15 bus to the airport, so we were able to do some last minute packing and cleaning around the house.
Our flight from Osaka to Honolulu was turbulent, but other than that, uneventful. Riley slept almost immediately upon take off, while Tess was awake until 12:30am Osaka time. Each seat had their own video entertainment on demand screen, so I made Todd watch The Hangover, which I’d seen, and I watched Four Christmases, which Todd would never watch. I’d just bought some Peanuts Classic episodes from itunes for the girls to feed their endless appetite for Charlie Brown, so that’s what Tessy watched.
We landed in Hawaii and had the LONGEST walk ever to our connecting airline, grabbed an earlier flight than we were scheduled on the smallest jet I’ve ever ridden in, and had the shortest flight ever- 25 minutes. It was a superlative experience.
Our first day, I struggled to get over this nasty cold and unpacked all of our stuff, Todd spent most of his time and money at the grocery store (apparently he spent 30 minutes in the produce sections in awe), and the girls played non-stop.
However, the second day, we actually did something. We walked from our condo to Baby Beach, calm, shallow water perfect for the little ones. After a few hours, we headed home to shower, change, drive into town, do a little shopping at an American style mall that – gasp – carried Todd’s shoe size and dresses designed for my body type. It was like heaven. We ended our second day by picking up Bob, Todd’s dad, at the airport and grabbing some dinner before driving home.
Here are a few pictures of the girls from our walk along the front street board walk on our first night and our first trip to Baby Beach.
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