Maui - Days 2-4 - Relaxing

Saturday we walked over to Whaler's Village and shopped a bit. We had appetizers and happy hour at the Hula Grill where they had live music. The music seemed mostly Hawaiian and the lead singer encouraged us to all learn to the the "oo-ka-lay-lay." Or, if we had kids, to buy them a real souvenir (not the toy version from ABC Store).




We had dinner at Maui Fish and Pasta (including a yummy cilantro infused margarita) and got our feet in the ocean walking back to the hotel along the beach. Iggy bought me a lei but it smelled so strongly that I couldn't wear it while eating. It was very nice while walking back to the hotel though!

Sunday we went for a morning "swim" and then to the champagne brunch at out hotel. Even the woman who rented us our car recommended it. True to her promise, there were 3 walls of food and while we only had one glass of champagne each, that glass was refilled every time you took a sip making it a little difficult to track how much you were really drinking. There were hula dancers with the live music -- and we heard Iggy's favorite song again (Hawaiian Superman).




This was followed by a nap, a pedicure for me, then reading on the beach. In the evening we wandered back over to Whaler's Village so I could get an anniversary present now that I knew what he wanted and dinner at Leilanni's on the Beach. This was a very nice meal, but we had been wanting to the nachos we saw on the menu. Sadly Leilanni's has 2 restaurants and we were in the fancy one, not the bar one and the menus don't cross over.

Monday we went to the hotel orientation breakfast (Saturday at 8am was too early after or late arrival Friday night and they don't have it on Sundays due to the champagne brunch). The talk was pretty informative and the food was free. After that we booked our anniversary day activities and then drove over to Lahaina to look around. The Banyan tree was pretty cool.




And we had lunch at Cheeseburger in Paradise.




That night we tried appetizers and happy hour at the other Leilanni's, but sadly we were way too full for nachos. The happy hour margarita there had to be the worst one I've ever had - all mixer. We wandered around the shoreline for a bit checking out a craft fair at one of the hotels and then down to the black rock where we want to snorkel eventually. Then we decided on sunset on out balcony and pizza in the room and a movie (Mission Impossible 4).




I think we've got the relaxing part accomplished!

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