The day has finally come, we knew it had to eventually, it was time to leave Maui. I got up around 7:00 as usual to enjoy my last blog post from my balcony spot. The picture above was my view every morning while I wrote, Maui was an awesome spectacle of God's creation.
We took our time packing, our flight wasn't until 1:30 so we had enough time to linger. We had PB&J for breakfast in order to use as much of the leftover food as we could, we didn't leave much behind which was good. After a couple hours we went out onto the balcony to say our final goodbyes to Maui and as we were sitting down we noticed a large group of people on the beach. I looked around and noticed a large pod of dolphins playing right off our beach! Several people were swimming with them, they were very close to the shore. Glad I had packed the binoculars I got them out and we watched them for about a half an hour. Swimming, jumping, playing, there were so many of them. It was the perfect send off from Maui. We checked out and drove to the Kahului airport to find the Hertz station to return our car. After Hertz it was time to check in for our tickets. We hadn't bought a lot of things in Maui but enough that we had to do some masterful packing in order to be under fifty pounds per check in. We made it, but it was close. With some time to kill we looked around at the shops before heading to the terminal, it's amazing how expensive things are in airports. Our flight started boarding late but we were off in no time and a quick 38 minutes later we were back in Honolulu, quite a change from Maui. It took about an hour for the Roberts to get through all the stops before our hotel. The Hilton Waikiki Prince Kuhio, a beautiful hotel. We relaxed for a while as we were in no hurry and unpacked what we would need for the night. Erin was very hungry so we decided to eat early. We broke a rule we had for the trip, no repeat restaurants. We went back to Duke's because Erin loved the salad bar so much. Salad, in Hawaii, and that's what she ordered, the salad bar. That's okay, I got some more fresh fish. It was nice to get there early as we got a seat on the deck overlooking the ocean which we didn't have last time. The food was again, excellent. We left and walked down the strip looking for something sweet, and Erin settled on a candy bar from one of the millions of ABC stores. With no car and no way to go anywhere without paying we went back to the hotel for the night. No idea what we are going to do tomorrow, but we'll think of something!
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