Day 5

Today was…interesting. Once again we were going to try and do the road to Hana but it was closed because of the storm that rolled across the state overnight. We decided to go to Wailuku and check out some of the things there. We stopped at a mall where they we holding a farmers market. They were selling fruit, veggies and some “baked goods”. We bought these

and have been affectionately referring to them as little fried balls of heaven since eating the first one. They are dense with grease and oh so good. We have each had one stick and still have these two to go. You can practically wring the oil out of them. Notice that the label has grease stains. Yum!

After that we did some more shopping and checked out how the locals live. In other words we went far away from the resorts. We got lunch at a little hole in the wall Mexican place that was pretty tasty. From there we went to ‘Iao Valley to see the ‘Iao Needle. It was very pretty and lush. My pictures don’t really seem to have done it justice.

We started heading back for Ka’anapali and I suggested that we should take a picture by the fields of sugar cane. The whole “land bridge” between east and west Maui is sugar. The guide books says that there is 37,000 acres of it. Impressive!

We drove up a private drive that goes into the field, stopped by the gate, and got out, set up the tri-pod and snapped a few pictures of us standing right in front of the sugar field. We went up very close to it. Standing just a foot or so away from the plants. Paul even suggested running through the field to see how quickly you could get lost. I didn’t like the sound of that so I went to get a close up picture and saw this.

Hole-E crap. I started getting itchy and started freaking out. I had Paul do a quick spider check and he was getting nervous had me look over him too. He then realized that there were a lot of these things. We were horrified. I can’t tell you how large they were. At least 2” and we saw four, one was right behind where we were standing. The whole way back in the car we were jumpy and itchy. I told him that I bet I could get him to mess himself if I started screaming then yelled spider and pointed at him. He didn’t think it was nearly as funny as I did. I giggled about that for a long time but never acted on my evil idea. After all that suffering we didn’t even get a good picture.

We decided to see where our tour leaves tomorrow and I fell in love with this guy.

And thought this was cool too.

This evening we walked around the resorts and visited the Hyatt. They have cool birds in their lobby (a lot of them were already put away for the night) and a pretty view from their grounds.

They also had beautiful flowers

and cool little pineapples growing.
The had a huge wall of bouganvilla.

We watched the sunset, got dinner and then got our stuff ready for our snorkeling excursion tomorrow.