This is the last part of my three part Maui vacation pictures, and the best pictures of all. These are all from the last days of our vacation, after our family left and Hubbie and I were on our own. They are all taken by Hubbie Mark or me.
I call them photos of LoveHubbie, because during this vacation, Hubbie s-l-o-w-l-y transmuted into LoveHubbie. You can almost see his metamorphosis in the pictures. We had a magical time, truly.
We started out staying in a hotel, which I would not recommend, unless you like being "where the action is" or have free hotel Starpoints (which we did).
Ahhh, alone at last---me and LoveHubbie. The hotel had a wonderful view, and we enjoyed being alone together. Here's a picture we took in our mirror. In order to really enjoy ourselves, though, we got out a lot, as the hotel was very, very small (just enough room for a bed in the room, with a small bathroom), very crowded, very noisy and bustling---with guests coming and going, and with staff in and out of our rooms for various tasks. It seemed like we had lots and lots of service---maid service, check-on-the-maid service, turn-down service, "I got the wrong room" interruptions, etc.---for much of our stay. So we took lots of trips.
We took a road trip to see Northwest Maui---very rural and picturesque.
We went back to Dragon's Teeth Labyrinth again---I couldn't stay away!
This time we walked way out on the point, since the tide was low and that part is usually covered up. We took pictures of ourselves too :)
The view from our room was the best part of the hotel:
One of our favorite trips was to the Iao Needle and Iao Valley, where the bones of ancient Hawaiian chiefs and ali'i are buried:
We enjoyed our activities and were happy in the hotel, but were looking forward to leaving so that we could get some privacy, get away from the crowds and the noise, and have a kitchen and a washer and dryer again. Here we are in the hotel lobby, which was a lanai---having a roof but open sides (basically no walls, or few walls):
Finally the day came to leave our hotel, and here is one of the spectacular sunsets we bid adieu to:
On to our condo! You might wonder why I chose this next picture out of the 1065 pictures we took. Well, it's because in it you can see one of the best things about our vacation---the balcony on our condo. It was on the 5th (top, as in penthouse) floor of this aging apartment-turned-condo complex, and
it was almost 2000 square feet---
yes, the balcony itself! We spent most of the rest of the vacation there, out there on that balcony. You can see the view. We could hear the ocean and see Moloka'i and Lana'i.
This was our view on our balcony to the left:
This was our view on our balcony to the right:
LoveHubbie relaxed and was like a different person. So was I!
LoveHubbie cooked in our lovely kitchen in our condo, and we stayed in a lot and just relaxed, watched and listened to the waves, spotted turtles, and best of all---watched the small ships sail into Lahaina harbor.
We ate so much good food here. One of the weirder things we ate was this dragonfruit---oh, so yummy! We bought some delicious goat butter and everything we cooked in that came out tasting like heaven!
LoveHubbie was always picking me plumeria blossoms, every day, from local trees.
Look how happy LoveHubbie is with his new beard, tattoo (albeit temporary), and carved necklace (a gift from me).
This pictures says it all! This was me at dinner our last night on Maui.
I wanted to give you the link to Stasia's lovely handmade ceramic finger labyrinths that I showed here in a previous post. This first two labyrinths are Chartres Labyrinths.
Note the detail. They are wonderful to touch and trace.
She also makes fairies and more in her business Golden Light Ceramics. I have one of her special fairies as well.
Here is a very small labyrinth for travel with a tracing stylus.
and a goddess labyrinth.
