Honeymoon: Day 8 and 9 in Maui

Day 8 - Maui

Our week in Maui was our time for some serious R & R.  We woke up and went out to explore the beautiful resort.  We plopped down for a few hours in a cabana by the pool where I read my book and D read his phone (which we later joked and referred to it as his "Kindle" for the rest of the trip)

D had a friend that moved to Maui a few years ago to live the dream so we made a plan to meet up with him around 3 pm.  We met him at his condo and then the three of us headed out for a walk in downtown Lahaina.  Dan's mini tour around the town ended up turning into an impromptu pub crawl.  He showed us all the fun and hot spots in Lahaina to eat and hang out or have a drink.  We met some of his local friends and everyone was just so nice and laid back, certainly not as fast paced as us east coasters!

We started out at Spanky's - named after the adorable Chocolate Lab that roamed the bar

 Yup - just a little ghetto under the banyan tree with a Mike's Hard Lemonade

D's friend Dan.  He was like the mayor of Lahaina, he knew everyone!

Including Lahaina Larry, everyone knew Larry!

This one was for mom and dad...Cheeseburger in Paradise!!

We caught a sunset

Think we were having a little too much fun here

 D was quickly fitting in and learning to use the hang loose hand gestures :)

I ended up slicing my toe on a piece of rock lava at some point.  We ended the night off with some to-go burgers and ate them back at Dan's place.  D said it was the best burger he ever ate..truth or booze talking?  We went home to bed at this point, which was the best idea we had all trip thus far.

Day 9 - Maui

We had a very low key day.  I slept in a little late since I was still feeling the pain of one too many drinks the night before.  D and I took a long walk on the beach and then plopped down under an umbrella for a few hours by the pool.  We had made a reservation the day before to bike down the Haleakala volcano where you coast down for 28 miles with only 400 yards of pedalling.

We wanted to have a nice dinner and then early to bed as we had to get up at 2 am to drive over to the volcano and be there for 3 am to meet the van to take us to the top of the volcano to see the sunrise. 

We got ready and went to a cute beach restaurant named Betty's and had some pretty amazing food, I had never eaten so many pineapples before than I did in my two weeks in Hawaii!  We also were able to get a sneak peak of the luau that was going on down below that we thought about doing later in the week.

We walked around and poked into the shops and headed home for bed for our early rise.  I was nervous for our big ride the next morning!  Pics of that adventure tomorrow!

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