Tuesday September 30, 2014 Lahaina, Maui, HI

Since the maid was scheduled to come this morning at 9, we were not only up before then but we were dressed.

We lounged around most of the morning.  A couple of days a go a small bug got under the protective plastic cover on my iPhone screen.  It was in the way of almost everything I tried to type.  This morning I finally figured out how to take the case off the phone, got the screen clean and even managed to get the case back together properly.  Hey, I know it doesn't sound like much, but small accomplishments are important too.

At 1:20 we headed to the airport to pick up Gerri's mother who is joining us for the next two weeks. We stopped at Costco for a "few things."  While we were shopping Neva called as she was boarding the airplane in Honolulu.  So we knew we had about an hour to get to the airport.  $250 later we were on the way a few blocks to the airport.

I tried to wait at the curb while Gerri went into the baggage pickup area but I was waved away by airport employees.  I circled twice and then went to the cell phone waiting lot.  I called Geri and she said they were at the curb and she had tried to call twice.  I had had the phone in my hand all the time and I checked and the ring volume was on.  I was back and we were loaded with Neva's bags and quickly on our way.

Neva's first stop on Maui

Gerri wanted to make a stop for coconut on the way back to the resort.  There was a stand where we turned on to the highway to Lahaina. We stopped but they only had the green coconut.  We prefer older coconut meat that is dryer.  It seems that both here and in Mexico the locals like it be able to eat it with a spoon. We passed on buying any.

The stand is at the entrance to a plantation and they have some old equipment on display.

Neva and Gerri with an old hay rake and Ford panel delivery 

Put da lime in da coconut, well chop it open first

Since our mission was still to buy some coconut we went on along the highway to a fruit stand that we knew had what we wanted.  The guy there chopped one open but the juice was starting to ferment.  He opened another one that was just right.  They chop an end off first so you can drink the juice and then they split the coconut in half, leaving the husk on.  It is up to you to get the meat out.  I did that later at the resort.

Ladies at sunset

After we got the baggage and groceries into our unit we relaxed for awhile.  We went out by the sea to watch the sunset.  There were a lot of people with the same idea, the seawall was pretty much lined with other sunset watchers.

It had been a long day for Neva.  We were all in bed by 10:30.






















Goodbye to September and 3/4 of 2014.