Hello from Maui!
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| A beautiful day is brewing |
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| View during my 16 minute treadmill session |
I contemplated involving an island bus in my travels again today but changed my mind. Ed and I have been here several times as well so I really didn’t feel the need to venture out across the island. So I bypassed the lines for the ship excursions and the even longer line for the taxis
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| Me, choosing to be in a taxi like this? No thanks. |
and followed the convoluted path out of the port.
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| The fenced walkway was narrow in some places |
Once out of the port a right turn takes you to a stoplight. Cross the street to the left and you’ll find yourself in the Maui Mall Village, an outdoor mall with a collection of shops and restaurants and even a movie theater.
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| A Regal Theater with a splash pad and palm trees? Oh, yeah. |
In the mall there is also a Long’s Drugs (haven’t seen one of those in years) and a Whole Foods. There’s plentiful outdoor seating and that’s where I encountered momma hen and her chicks looking for crumbs.
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| Sorry, no food here |
I did some souvenir shopping at Long’s Drugs.
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| Unique Japanese flavors I can’t find at home - matcha and kohaku |
Had a personal-sized pizza lunch at Round Table Pizza.
Strolled over to the guri guri place for a guri guri dessert. The frozen dessert similar to sherbet was so good I wish I had ordered a larger size.
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Strawberry and pineapple flavors are all they sell.
The perfect combination. |
Rolled my way back to the ship for yet another nap. What is up with that?
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| Home sweet home |
The nap and phone calls from home led into drinks before dinner,
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| Lemon Drop martini |
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| Angelo Azzuro martini, too sweet for me |
which led into my dinner of appetizer-sized portions of roast pork tenderloin, wok-flashed shrimp, and a watermelon sorbet dessert.
I also had the sweet longan fruit from yesterday. Peeling the hard outer shell revealed a soft semi-clear white fruit with a dark pit.
We had some mighty 45+ mph winds howling as we left the breakwaters of Kahului tonight and had some very noticeable listing of the ship. (As a passenger I would call it significant but I’m sure it wouldn’t be in Captain’s terms.) Thankfully we’re getting into open waters for our short sail to tomorrow’s port of Honolulu. See you there!
