My Little Break From Life!!

Well, we decided to celebrate Rob graduating from college a little early!! (He graduates in December) We dropped the girls at my parents house, my sister and her husband Nick dropped their kids off with Nick's Mom, and we headed out for Maui!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

At 3 am the first morning in Maui, we got in the car and headed for Haleakala, a volcanic crater, which sits at 10,000 ft above sea level!!
The sunrise was amazing...this picture doesn't even start to do it justice.
We spent an afternoon on a boat doing some fishing....well, not much fishing, but the ride was enjoyable. We had two bites but no luck!
I was amazed that there was this type of dry land...and then a few miles away...rich rainforest...



Bamboo isn't native to Hawaii, but has definitely taken over this hike that we went on. A little further down the trail it was actually so thick that they had to cut a 8 ft pathway through it and it was dark for about 1/2 a mile. Pretty cool.
One day we headed for Hana, a small town on the opposite side of the island. Some people in our neighborhood actually own a house on that end of the island, so they were nice enough to let us stay there for a night. We didn't realize how small Hana was and expected to go out for dinner that evening, but found out that there were like 2 restaurants and 2 general store...The picture says it all...we ate spam and macaroni for dinner for a cheap $27!!!
Gorgeous black sand beach!
Right off our resort!
Ioa, a state park, was a fun stop.
This is a cool banyan tree in Old Lahaina. There is an original trunk and then 16 more that have started from vines coming down from limbs. Pretty cool.
Isn't he cute?!?! I wanted to zipline, and Rob was kind enough to humor me even though it was pretty expensive! It was fun to get up into the mountains and get some adrenaline pumping at the same time.
The views were awesome.
All in all, I could never right down all that we did or all that we saw!! It was just awesome to get away and relax for a while...Rob style...which means not much relaxing, but lots of new things!