More of Hayley & Sherry

Here are a couple more pictures of Hayley and Sherry. This one is their first full day, wearing their leis, in front of Diamond Head. It was a lot of fun hanging out with a very cute 19-year old, we got lots of attention!

Sherry & Hayley's Visit

Sherry who I've known since I was 7 and her daughter, Hayley, were here this last week. This is my only picture, the night they arrived. Hayley has a great camera, so she was the photographer, so will add pictures when I get them. We had a wonderful week!

Last Day in Maui

Finally on the last day we made it to the sunrise, at 10,000 feet elevation on top of Haleakala, an active volcano, though hasn't erupted since 1790. We had to bundle up because it was very cold and windy. Here is one shot of the sunrise, how do you pick one from 40 pictures?

This is where we had lunch, Mama's Fish House, it was great! This is the view from the restaurant.

Here is our trip home - the Superferry! We got up at 4 to catch the sunrise and the ferry got us home at 12, it was a long day, but fabulous!!

Day 4 - Road to Hana

Today we drove the windy, multi- one-lane bridged road. The 34 mile drive to Hana took us 3 hours. We drove it last year and wanted to go back, but go beyond Hana. The road used to loop all the way around to the interior of the island but due to the earthquake on the Big Island (you can see the Big Island from here) in October of 2006, damage was done to the road and it still not open yet. (things don't move quickly in Hawaii) So, we drove to Hana, drove 13 miles past, then had to turn around and backtrack to get back home. But it was a great day. We got a really early start, left at 6:37 at mile marker "0" and at 4:30 we were back.

This is one shot along the way. You can see where we'd come from and in between us and that picture a hairpin turn with a one-lane bridge, usually including a waterfall. There were about 60 one-lane bridges.

One of many waterfalls, this one is called Three Bears ~
We beat most of the traffic on the way out, we were now past Hana and hardly anyone was on the road. We're standing on the bridge for this shot of another beautiful waterfall ~

Since there was no visibility, you just had to honk your horn and go (and hope no one was coming!)

This is taken at Maui's black beach. Too bad no time for a swim!

Behind this church is buried Charles Lindbergh. He moved here about 6 years before he died.

The cool proteas we bought on the side of the road ~
We're having a light dinner at the cottage tonight, then up again early tomorrow for our sunrise at Haleakala. We don't get home until 11 pm tomorrow night, so tomorrow's pictures will be posted later!

Day 3 in Upcountry

Our cabin has one of those cute doors where the top and bottom are separate. I remember seeing movies as a kid and always thought that would be so cool to have a door like that. So I told Jon we just had to get a picture of me and the front door.

We went back to the Lavendar Farm today. Look at the leaves on this Protea. It looks like they were cut with scissors! We bought some protea flowers on the side of the road for so cheap and and will put a picture up tomorrow.
Enormous, beautiful protea ~
Next we went to the Kula Horticulture Garden. We took lots and lots of pictures of flowers. Here's one ~
The owner told us Oprah's house is here. So we drove up the one-lane road she told us to (paved, of course). Of course we couldn't see anything, but can certainly see why she chose to buy here. It's delightful. For dinner we had Mexican food at the same place we stopped at our first day. It's just like the Tex-Mex I grew up with, nothing fancy, just good. That makes Mexican 3 days in a row!!

Day 2 in Maui

Thursday was not as we expected it would be. We read about a 2 mile hike at Polipoli Park where they had a redwood tree forest and we wanted to get some exercise so that's what we did. But the drive took us longer than we thought. And the road turned to a dirt road. Now our book told us it was a 4WD road, but cars did okay. Well, it took us 45 minutes to go 5.7 miles on that dirt road, and our car took a few hits.

You can see the road cutting through this hillside. This is the paved section where we went, a one-way road with spectacular views below. Then into the trees on the right.
But the worse thing was, about halfway on our 4WD road, we saw that there had been a fire (we found out only 6 months ago). So it was very sad. We had invested so much time in our drive up there, we went ahead and took our hike, hoping there would be something to see. The fern were coming back, and some of the trees were okay. But very very sad to see all the devastation.
I told Jon I didn't see the 4WD sign, but here it is, with our hearty little car that did suffer quite a bit. Jon said, "well, no more off road driving for us"!
Our cottage is at 3000 ft and we drove up another 3,000 feet in elevation. On the way down we came across this cow who seemed to wonder why we wanted to take his picture. If you look, you can see the lavendar farm in the background.
Since our little outing took us longer than expected, we were quite hungry. So we drove to the town of Pa'ia, a cute town down by the water. We found another great Mexican food place and walked around the shops, and then back home.