Maui Day 7

Our last full day in Maui begin with me up early and Erin sleeping in. Writing this, knowing it's the last significant amount of time I will be spending on the balcony, it's a little sad. I've spent a lot of time out here, an hour or so every morning after getting up, and an hour or so every evening before going to bed. It really has been one of my favorite places on Maui. After posting I got to watch the Reds on my iPhone. They were the featured game and as a result I got to watch it instead of just listening to it. Since we have the five hour time difference the game started at 7:10 AM here in Maui. It was great for me while I was here, always having the games in the afternoon when we were on the beach. But if I lived here when football season rolls around and the games started at 7:00 AM, that would be terrible. We had breakfast and headed down to the beach. Knowing it would be the last time we got to be there we stayed for a little over two hours before showering and going out to lunch. Erin had been craving Chinese food so we went over to the newly opened Panda Express. We both had the orange chicken which was really good. Because we had showered and Erin had gotten all her makeup on and done her hair, it didn't really make sence to go back out on the beach, so for the first time we went down to the pool and laid out there for a couple more hours. It was very relaxing and I'm glad we did it. We never would have had any other reason to go to the pool before that so it was nice to say we did it. After some cosmetic touch ups it was time to head to Mama's Fish house, the restaurant we had heard more about than any other. Mama's is about an hour from our hotel, we had passed it before, it is just before the start of the Road to Hana we had driven on Friday. It has a wonderful location, sitting right on the beach. Several palm trees line the white sandy beach that Mama's sits on. The picture up top is the view of Mama's from it's beach. Mama's is easily considered the best place to have fresh fish on Maui. The menus are printed daily depending on what is caught the day before, and every entree includes the name of the fisherman who caught it and where he was in Maui. The hallway to the bathrooms are lined with photos of celebrities eating at Mama's, several with a note to the staff. I had the macadamea nut enchrusted mahi-mahi stuffed with crab. It was easily tied with the ribeye as the best thing I've ever eaten. Erin had a tropical blend of meat and fish that sounded good on the menu but she wished she would have gotten the Oku. We took pictures of the grounds including the picture below of the view from the restaurant and headed back to Lahaina.





We had to stop on front street to go to Ululani's one more time, and Erin wanted to try the Hawaiian ice cream shop. We enjoyed our treats as we walked down Front St. one last time, it was a great final night in Maui.

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