Today is the day that our Navy buddy, Davie, shows up for the trip. The shortish story is thus: A couple of weeks before we launched on this trip, Dave called the house to visit. We mentioned that in two weeks we were headed to Maui. Davie says, "Um, boys... Do you not remember that the last time you went to Hawaii you said that you'd take me on the next trip?"
Oh, yeah. I do sorta remember that now that you mention it...
So we bought him tickets and he is to join us on Wednesday.
We wake up and sit around the room waiting for his plane to land. Mom Edna decides to attack the flying ants that are still lounging around the lanai.
Damian is not so sure how successful a venture it is to sweep flying bugs off the second story lanai...but she does it anyway. It is a wild success. The rest of the day we see fewer and fewer of the pests. How odd.
Russ and I decide to put on our Vibram Five Finger "toe" shoes and go for a run. We put in two miles.
It comes time for us to zip to the airport to pick up Dave. On the way, Russ decides to use Damian's iPad to check the flight status. Halfway there, he announces that Davie's plane is 3 hours delayed. We turn around and go back to the resort.
Well we start to, anyway. Then we decide to stop in at the place on Maui where we are trying to get jobs so we can move to Maui. We pop in, visit for a bit, can't really see anything, and so leave. We go back to the room and chill for a bit.
Then the phone rings. It's Dave wondering where the heck we are! Turns out that Russ checked the wrong plane...on the wrong airline entirely! So we zoom back to Kahului to pick him up. He's hungry so we stop at Burger King to feed him.
We get to the room. Davie wonders about the implications of this sign in the bathroom.
Then we head off to....yes, you guessed it...Little Beach!
Much swimming and sunning was enjoyed by all.
After a couple of hours, we came back to the room, took our wine glasses out for sunset. Then Russ cooked another delectable meal.
All too soon, it was bedtime. We collapsed in our respected sleeping areas and called it a day.
---Aloha!
