Hello beautiful world! We left Honolulu to embark on the Maui portion of our trip, but of course it was not as smooth as planned. We had some foreshadowing the night before when we were getting teased for booking Island Air. After a relaxing morning where everyone except me (S) went for a run, we headed to breakfast at Tucker and Bevvy again and proceeded to eat lunch at the beach. There was clearly riffraff teenagers there smoking and doing nothing. Maybe they were out of school already, but M says her brother once was part of that "wall rats" group. She then proceeded to tell us about that time a rat fell out of a tree and into her birthday cake! Trauma!! We took a taxi to the airport and proceeded to check in. There was a really tense Canadian Asian family next to us who were weighing, opening, closing bags. They had two adorable daughters tho. Didn't think anything of them otherwise, but Karl picks some seats on the plane right next to them. It was one of those propeller type of planes. We were on board with other characters like that Russian couple who loves to dress up like each other on trips... Anyway, the baby girl who was not yet 2 was not enjoying the take-off, but she did enjoy the landing. She pooped the entire way down :( It got so stinky her mom was like "yes, she pooped." M and T had it worse than anyone else as they were sitting right in front of the baby. I told her if it were up to me, I would let them off the plane first. Her older sister who must have been 4 or something came right up to me and said "we made smoothies. Poo smoothies!" The fun with kids at the airport did not end there. We got to the rental car area and there were chickens. This is normal in Hawaii so we didn't think anything of it. Then these kids start taking seeds out and spreading them... More chickens appear! We just wanted to get into one of the mustangs and get out of there. Then this tubby Chinese kid and his angry-faced sister who evidently did not understand English at all take out some saltines and start spreading them right by our luggage!!! Rude!!! He is looking guilty below.
While trapped in the chicken coop madness, we hear some beeps. We were like "who is that?!" Annnnnnd it was M in our minivan!!!!! Seriously, how are we going to survive the road to Hana in this?! We had visions of mustang convertibles and we were discussing which colors would disappoint us most. Oh well!
We took our mom-car to whole foods to pick up snacks and lunch. We decided to picnic in front of the house we are living in this week when we arrived. It is an absolute dream to be up here in Haiku, but it is quite a distance from the beach. We met the neighbors who gave us some tips about the area.
We took a walk to see the 'hood. Mansions on the water... Who lives here?! Oh yeah, Oprah and friends. The mighty O has not been around to greet us yet. Hopefully she will stop by and say hello.
After the walk, we got in the car to visit Paia, which has a Main Street. After checking out some boutiques and casual, non-pj rompers we headed to our final destination... Mama's Fish House! This was a huge restaurant but did not feel like it at all. This place is known for their fresh fish (swimming this morning) and also for crediting the fisherman who caught them on the menu. We ordered some drinks and a trio of sashimi to start. Amazing. Then T ordered the Ahi with coconut rice, M ordered the Ono with kalua pork fried rice, I ordered the seared Papio and K ordered the macadamia nut crusted snapper... All were amazing!
As we were wrapping up, we notice a bunch of tall men walk by our table. We come to find out it was Kevin Durant and friends. Nice to know that he appreciates a fine seafood dinner on the beach!
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