Trip to Maui

In early September the three of us trip to Hawaii. We booked our trip quite last minute and got an incredible deal on airline tickets, car rental and a condo in Kihei, Maui. 

 We have always flown to Maui using miles. And because Untied doesn't fly direct we have always flown to San Francisco and then on to Maui. This time we actually purchased non-stop tickets on Hawaiian Airlines. They were really inexpensive so we decided to save our miles. Our flight was to leave Seattle at 10:00 a.m. When we arrived at the airport we boarded our flight and soon found out that there was some mechanical issue that needed to be fixed on the airplane. So we got off the airplane and waited a couple of hours for them to replace the part. After waiting for two hours we were notified that they couldn't get the part for the airplane until the following day. So we had to wait until another airplane came in that we could fly on. That meant we would have a 15 hour delay!! Yes...you read that right...a 15 hour delay! Now...we almost always drive ourselves to the airport and leave our car in a long term airport parking. But this time around our good friend Sarah volunteered to take us to the airport. We decided it would save us a $100+ dollars so we let her drop us off at the airport. So we had no way to leave the airport. So we did a lot of NOTHING for 15 hours!! We felt like prisoners in our own airport! Luckily the airlines gave us some food vouchers so we could have breakfast, lunch and dinner! And I brought our Canasta cards with us so we played some games, read our books and did a lot of relaxing. At 12:45 a.m. we were finally on our way to Maui!

Isn't this the funniest sign? That is one LONG delay! To compensate us the airline gave us 3 vouchers to be used within a year for some $ towards a flight to Maui. So I hope we can use the vouchers and go back to Maui soon! That would be awesome!

We did lots of snorkeling and boogie boarding during our 10 day vacation. 

Brooklyn holding a bright purple sea star.

 We saw lots of cool fish and turtles. 

We ate at some of our favorite places.

 Our table was right on the water. Such a beautiful evening. 

 One day we took a boat ride over to Lanai to snorkel. While we were snorkeling we saw a spotted eagle ray. The coolest thing I have ever seen snorkeling. It kinda freaked me out a bit. It was huge but so very beautiful and graceful.

We saw lots of flying fish that took off flying as the boat passed through the water.

 We loved being in swim suits and flip-flops 

 Checking out a fruit stand along the highway.

 One night Steve and I went to Leilani's for their famous Hula Pie. Oh man was it good. 

 One day we rented scooters and zipped all over Kihei and Wailea.

We looked so cute with our helmets on!

 Brookie scootering...yes she had a helmet but she wanted to look cute for the pictures!

On Sunday we went to church in Lahaina. One of our cute nieces, Camrie, had just recently returned from serving her mission in Hawaii. And Lahinia was the last area where she served so we wanted to go to the ward where she served. 

Here are some of the wonderful and kind members of the ward who loved Sister LeBaron. 

And here are some of the sister missionaries, who served with Camrie.

We had fun taking pictures at sunset. 

 There's our hula girl Brooklyn!

  

 

 

 

 We had a great time on our trip to paradise.
Here's a short video that Steve made of some of our vacation highlights:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17ojxyxDxNk