Hawaii Day 1: To Maui, Road to Hana

 We drove to LA on Saturday to catch a Sunday morning flight to Maui. Sunday morning, Megan and Matthew discovered that the leprechaun had found us in LA and left them socks.

Megan wearing the leprechaun hat.

Megan and Matthew at the Lego Store at LAX.

Arrived! Megan and Matthew have now been in 49 states!

Megan, Matthew and Me on the tram to pick up our car.

We had some delicious pizza from the food trucks by Costco. The top pizza was a meat pizza and the bottom one was a fig pizza. Even Megan and Matthew liked the fig pizza

We headed out down the Road to Hana. We listened to an audio tour which gave us some history and made suggestions on where to stop. Since the Road to Hana is not an easy drive, with lots of tight turns and one way bridges, it said to be nice to the driver and give them ice cream or a massage. So Megan gave U a shoulder massage at one stop. Megan loved all the shades of green we saw. She said she could live in Hawaii (but then noted that she said that about Minnesota as well).

U, Matthew, Me and Megan at an overlook.

With the Ke'anae peninsula behind us.

We stopped at the Ke'anae arboretum.

Megan, Matthew and U with rainbow eucalyptus trees. Megan wondered if God made the rainbow eucalyptus by first creating a normal tree and then throwing streaks of paint on it.

On the Ke'anae peninsula. I loved watching and listening to the surf here.

U and Me got Thai food for dinner. While getting the food, Me saw some of friends who used to live in our ward. It was nice to catch up a bit. (And what are the chances of running into people we know in Hana!?!)

Megan and Matthew ate cereal for dinner. They were quite tired by this point.

We also enjoyed some yummy banana bread!