Days 9-10, Kapalua and Kapalua to E-ville

Day 9: Kapalua

THB's regular (i.e., only) snorkel spot a few minutes after 8am, people are just starting to enter the water

Weather: Breezy, blue water, low to  mid 80s, intermittent light rain around 6pm

THB and DB getting their toes wet

LB sez there is a fish in this picture

The usual breakfast and the 6 of us (E is sleeping in) go to beach and twins get more edge-of-the-water play time. DB and K take twins back upstairs and LB and THB do yet another morning snorkel. THB swims with a turtle in shallow water (it is a big animal in shallow water), we see boxfish, a school of orange spined tangs and a few other first-timers.

Everybody meets up at the owners' pool mid-morning including A who is joining with LB for a week in Kehei and has arrived today. 

Lunch on the deck, THB bbqs the last of four slabs of pork ribs, the twins have their usual, and others have miscellani as we are emptying the fridge and pantry (good news: LB and A are taking the leftovers to Kehei, so not much will go to waste).

Lots of relaxing in the afternoon along with a bit of packing as we get ready for an early checkout and the drive to airport for 6 of us on the Maui-Oakland flight scheduled for 10:45am.

Look, Grandma and Mom left their devices laying around

What's Grandma's personal code?

I'm in...you?

Yep, and now all we need are their bank account apps. Are you kidding, I am going to check my Instagram comments

Dinner of pupus and 4 drinks in the hotel bar, $200.

Day 10: Kapalua to E-ville

A new dress from Blue Ginger

Weather: Breezy, blue water, low to  mid 80s, intermittent light rain around 6pm

Another stroller shot (maybe outside Maui airport)

Pack everything up and load the van and sedan. Even with A included, everything fits. About an hour to the airport where once again Hawaiian Air lives up to it's reputation: SOUR!

Hell

THB upgraded the six of us (LB is staying another week) to First Class as the now-only-switched-once ancient 767 has no "comfort" zone.  So, we get into the First Class/Priority HA line. We're waiting as 3 (THREE) people behind the counter chat away ignoring their best customers. Then the woman who helps us check-in is easily the nastiest person THB has encountered at check-in desk...and THB means any person at any check-in desk. 

Fueling up for the flight, Jasmine often is playing with her feet while drinking

Mom, I'll have the special meal

Mama Gooch's Hiyashi Chuka noodle salad (ingredients not listed on menu)

Tofu Hekka with long rice noodles (spicy!)

Chilled mini pineapple peach pie (sans whipped cream)

Same pie except it came with whipped cream

Fortunately, the flight attendants were a lot more congenial (do you think having the twins along helped win them over?). The meal was actually pretty good and the most unusual one THB had since he and K were flying back from Beijing and tried bipandbop.

J and DB taking a nap, J only slept about an hour on the flight

C apparently has the more favorable spot as she sleeps for close to 2.5 hours

Say our goodbyes to K&E&J&C at the curb and await our strange Lyft driver. How strange? His chihuahua greets us than snuggles up behind the driver's neck as he takes us back to the loft. That fit with his quirks.

THB unpacks (yeah, how boring is when THB tells you about his unpacking) and HA has done it to us again. Another first: someone opened our big suitcase, leaving it partially unzipped (THB doesn't both to lock the suitcase, who would want THB's dirty clothes and arts and crafts project?) and removes the loose coins that THB saves during the trip. Okay, THB has a habit of not carrying loose change, saving it up to donate to his local bridge club. Why would someone risk their job for $3-5 of loose change?

Next trip: in two weeks, THB goes apple picking in Tieton, about 20 miles from Yakima, right in the middle of the first round of playoffs (the A's actually qualified for at lease one playoff game, THB is in 9th heaven...that's 13 heavens above where Hawaiian Air lives).