Welbi ‘Round the World

More Maui

There are more pictures of our trip to Maui here.

We’ve been busy, finally.  After trying to recover from our colds for the first few days, we ventured out to ride on the Reef Dancer.  It is like a kid friendly version of snorkeling.  They could watch the fish from inside the boat with the help of some divers who collected things like urchins and cowrie shells to show the kids.

We’ve been swimming a lot at the pool at our condo.  The kids love it, and they are completely independent in the pool when wearing their arm floaties.  Riley is also really into snorkeling.  I am trying to convince her to do it at the actual beach and not just in the pool, but she doesn’t seem too keen.  Maybe she hasn’t forgiven me for not telling her how much the ear piercing was going to hurt.

This morning instead of opening up our Christmas presents, which we did a couple of weeks ago, we headed on a whale watching expedition.  For two hours we sailed on the open, calm ocean looking for whales.  ***Note: The last time Todd and I did this was in July off of Bar Harbor, Maine.  It was 35 degrees Fahrenheit with 8-10 foot chop.  Todd spent the entire 4 hours puking, and I saw the back of one humpback whale and her calf.  Needless to say, Todd was not optimistic about this experience.  Luckily, the weather and the seas were great.  We saw about 15-20 whales.  During the last thirty minutes, the same whale stayed with us and breached about 20 times.  It was unbelievable.  Even our guide was in awe.  The girls were excited with what they saw, although, Riley and Tess were a little put out about not being able to ride the humpback whale (Damn you, Go, Deigo, Go).  Riley actually did puke two times, but she recovered like a champ.  She gets car sick, so it was no surprise to us that she would get sea sick as well.

Once we returned home, Todd finished up making the gumbo, threw some tasty cornbread together, and I made Vicky’s Famous Shrimp Dip.  Marie, coworker and friend from Japan, who just happened to be here for the holidays, came over, and we had a delicious meal, and then watched the girls swim in the pool.

Merry Christmas!

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