Maui- Day(s) 9-11

Laura and Cole were the 1st to spend the night at Gramma and Papa's Condo. 

Cole joined Papa in his morning stretches!

Gramma and Lolo re-painted their toes...I promise these are Lolo's feet! 

My girl has the best skin for tanning!  Thanks Dad :)

After some breakfast we headed out to check out Mount Haleakala.  Dale is such a goof!

It's impossible to tell just how vast this area is.  To give a small clue...from where I was standing to where the clouds touch the land far out there was 7 miles!  Yep pretty crazy how your mind stops computing distance after a few miles...

After the hike around the mountain we headed home for some AWESOME steaks prepared my my darling-Mike!  Did I mention they were AWESOME?!  Then a few friendly games of UNO and watching of the Olympics.

Sadly this is one of the only 2 pictures I got of the swap meet Laura, Christine and I went to saturday morning.  But oh the treasures we found!!!!!  Laura really just came for the Shave Ice :)

We decided to tackle the Road to Hana for the 4th time!  We're not crazy just slightly obsessive :).  These eucalyptus trees or "painted trees" are so amazing!  My camera does no justice to the colors and textures of these trees!

Probably the straightest part of the road...

I get pretty sick in cars and on boats if there's too much direction change so we stopped ALOT to ease the neasuea. No one argued...they didn't dare ha!  I did end up taking a anti-neasuea pill and it totally kicked my butt!  Talk about energy zapper!!! I'm good at muscling through so no one really had their day ruined. The kids found plenty to entertain themselves with like this vine to swing on. Even Gramma got in on the action.

The sign says it all...

Lucky for us there is an abundance of places ready to sell you all the banana bread you can eat. 

 I think we bought 6 loafs between us all!!

One of the sights I had on my list for the trip was this water fall. It's call The 3 Bears.  Dale, Drew, Christine and I hiked down to get a better look at the falls.  AMAZING! 

This is the bridge the cars cross over on...

And then we made it to Hana!  The road to Hana is the best part really. There is so many beautiful things to see and experience along the way. We try to take our time...and do since my stomach says so!

We bbq'd some hawaiian pineapple hot dogs for lunch.  They were so tasty! 

I don't think we had one bad meal the entire time we were there come to think of it!!!

After playing on the black sand beach there in Hana we traveled on to the 7 sacred pools...

We couldn't swim in the pools since they've had a few people loose their lives in flash floods lately.  Just the thought of that is enough to keep me far enough away!

And on the way home we found some Taro fields...Nasty stuff..poi :)