Summer Trips: Maui

For our seventh wedding anniversary I surprised Julia with a trip for both of us to Maui. We got to spend 6 days in Napili Kai, Maui. Our trip started very early (I think that we left our house before 5 am) on a Wednesday morning. Because I had booked our flights near to our travel date using some frequent flyer miles our flight options were a little limited. So instead of flying directly from Los Angeles to Maui we flew first to Denver. This added a significant amount of travel time to our trip but we got to have Denver omelets in Denver and I got to see the deciding stage of the 2008 Tour de France while we ate them.

Also, the flight from Denver direct to Maui took us right over our house in Los Angeles. Julia was disgusted to know that several hours after getting out of bed much earlier than usual that she was right back where we had started. I thought it was neat to look out the window and see our house.


Once we arrived in Maui we quickly settled in at the Napili Kai Beach Resort and got into a lazy routine that consisted of swimming, snorkeling, eating, drinking and relaxing. There are so many things that I love about Naplini Kai Beach Resort. First off I love the location. The beach is calm and the water is clear. It's perfect for snorkeling and it's very close to other great snorkeling spots like Honolua Bay and Slaughterhouse Beach. I like the relaxed family atmosphere. We made all of our own meals together while we were there.


I love the sunsets and torch lighting.


We made frequent trips to the nearby fish market and ate fresh catches every day. We also studied up on one of the most dangerous fish in the world, the Walu a.k.a. Butterfish a.k.a. Escolar. Look it up here in Wikipedia: Escolar. Yikes!

We had a great view from our room.

We saw sea turtles and other neat creatures every day.

It was a great trip but it was definitely too short.