Wednesday morning Maui time, everyone was up  bright and early about 6:30am.  We went to The Five Palms restaurant for breakfast on Keavakapu Beach.  After breakfast, we toured  the hotels in Wailea and McKenna, Wailea Marriot, Grand Wailea, Four Seasons, Fairmont Kea Lani and the Maui Prince and Golf Resort.  We drove on past the hotels out into the Lava fields to La Perouse Bay, passing Big Beach and Little Beach on the way.  On the way back to my brothers house, we stopped at Gannon's restaurant (formerly The Seawatch) across from the club house of the Emerald and Gold golf courses in Wailea.  After some refreshing drinks and some Pupus we headed back to the house at about 12:30pm.

We left the house at about 4pm for our drive to Lahaina to board our Sunset Cruise on the Catamaran boat the Paragon.  You board the boat behind the ancient Pioneer Inn, one of the oldest hotels on Maui, which was famous for the old Whalers days, when drunken sailors raised havoc in Lahaina mostly in pursuit of the local Wahines.  There were about 16 other tourists on the boat and all of them were looking for good spots to sit in the sun on the decks of the boat.  However, I chose to sit inside the small enclosed cabin and Bobby sit with me to keep me company, and we sit pretty quietly.  I only had a small glass of ice water.  Bobby was telling me a story about when Mom and Toby went on a Whale watching trip in the ocean with him outside of San Francisco in 1981.  All of a sudden Mom got sick and upchucked right over board the boat.  Soon after that I was heading for the head (toilet) down below deck, for the same reason.  After that I began to talk a little but was never feeling that great during the cruise.  After the cruise, which everyone loved, EXCEPT ME?   Sherry wanted to begin shopping in Lahaina, but I wanted to get on home, so we all decided to call it a night and head for Kihei.  I was feeling better when we arrived at home and we began our nightly Yuker card game, where Tim and Bobby were partners and Sherry and I were partners.  Every night, no matter what time we got home from our daily and evening activities we had these card games.

On Thursday morning Bobby got back into his daily routine of taking a 3.6 mile beach walk, with a swim at Kam three beach.  He left the house about 6am, Tim wanted to go with him  and  left the house about 5 minutes after Bobby, but could never find him and stopped after going to Charley Young Beach and Kam One beach.  We all had breakfast at home and at about 10:00am we all went to the Advantage Car Rental place in Kahului, so Tim and Sherry could rent their car.

After we left Tim and Sherry with their rental car, we drove to Hilo Hatties and went shopping.  I bought a dress for the Luau Friday night and bought a Hulu outfit for Serenity (my great grand daughter) and a little Hulu Teddy Bear.  Thursday evening at 5pm Ashleea, Sherry and I went to Ashleea and Bobby's next door neighbor Norma's for a small get together, while Tim prepared an Italian dinner.  Tim proved to be quite a good chef, as Bobby exclaimed that the Spagetti dinner would rival my best Italian friend Tom's (both Tim and Tom are 100% Italian).  After dinner we had our nightly Uker card game, Sherry and I against Bobby and Tim.

Friday at 6am Tim went with Bobby on his Beach walk and swim.  After breakfast Sherry and Tim went out with the rental car exploring the island.   Ashleea, Bobby and I went to the matinee movie "Dark Shadow". That evening we all got  dressed in our Luau clothes and arrived at the Grand Wailea Hotel about 5pm.  We were greeted with leis and had our pictures taken and were shown to our seats, which were in front and center of the stage (the best seats in the house). Tim bought Sherry and I another Plumeria Lei as well.   We were served drinks of any kind we wanted Mai Tais, etc. and as many as we wanted.  We could also have tea, coffee or water. About 5:30pm they took the pig out of the Imu (a dirt pit, which has the pig wrapped in Banana leaves and covered with red hot rocks), a special way that the Hawaiians cook pork which they call Kalua pork, which is shredded and very tender.  The food lines began and we had all the traditional Hawaiian foods.  After we ate the entertainment began and lasted until 8pm.  We had a great time.

On Saturday morning Sherry and Tim went snorkeling at Kam Three beach and saw Bobby just as he was coming out of the ocean after his daily swim. Bobby took Ashleea and I on a drive up country to see the Jackaranda trees, with their beautiful purple flowers.  We stopped at the historic Kula Lodge for lunch.  There were several veterans around and Bobby spoke to them, one an 89 year old World War 2 veteran sitting at the next table with his wife and one a Vietnam veteran from Chicago sitting with a group of people at the end of the room.  Saturday afternoon we drove to Mama's Fish House for dinner, the most expensive restaurant on the island and the best food. A Mai Tai is $16.00, same for a glass of wine.  Some entries are $58. Tim and Sherry treated us to dinner, which we all will be forever grateful.  After we got home about 9pm we had our nightly Uker game. 

On Sunday "Mothers Day", we had breakfast at home.  Followed by many incoming and outgoing calls, with good wishes of Happy Mothers Day.  Sherry called Barbara, Jim's Mother and we all had a good talk with her and she sounded great.  The next day Barbara was in the hospital with bronchitus, but was only there a few days it turned out and is once again in fine health and spirits.  It demonstrates that we all of us must be in the now, as life is fragile and to enjoy and have as much fun as we can with life.  In the afternoon about 12:30pm we all went to visit Tom and Nancy at their house in Wailuku.  They live in this lush jungle setting, which reminds one of Africa, you would think no one lived within miles, as there is nothing for as far as one can see into the nearby mountains, where there exists an abundance of Monkey Pod trees and beautiful mountain growth and waterfalls in the distance (No houses visible anywhere).  And looking the other direction towards the ocean one can see the Kahului Harbor.  Tom and Nancy have lived in their new house for over 8 years now.  We all had a great visit with Tom and Nancy sitting on their veranda on the back side of the house talking story, what a quiet, tranquil and inspiring place to visit.  We got home about 3pm and prepared for our Mothers Day dinner at the Sea House on the other side of the island from Bobby's at Napilli near Kapalua (the north west side of Maui).  The beach in front of the restaurant is where Bobby took Ashleea for their first date 21 years ago.  While the South West shores of Kihei, Wailea and Mckenna get a little choppy with winds in the afternoon,  Napili Bay Beach is so calm  and great for an afternoon swim.  We all had a great Mothers Day dinner (nine of us were there, Tom and Nancy, Ashleea and Bobby, Tim and Sherry, Jeremy and Genvieve and myself), as a beautiful and perfect sunset was taking place.  We got home at about 9:30pm and were exhausted from a full Mothers Day.  That night we did not play Uker, as Sherry and Tim had to get up early Monday morning.

On Monday May 14th, Bobby took Sherry and Tim to the airport at 6:30am for their flight to Oahu, Honolulu to see Pearl Harbor, Tim's one request Must See for him while in Hawaii.  They both enjoyed their historical visit.  While they were there, Bobby, Ashleea and me went upcountry, stopping at a Park, which had a super view of the two sides of Maui and the Ocean on the East and West sides of the Island were clearly visible.  After the park we drove on up to the top of Haleakala, a 10,000 foot high extent volcano, where the temperature was a bit cold.  We got out and took in the 360 degree Vistas, over looking the beautiful clouds.  The Island of Hawaii stood out clearly.  Also, we observed the Science City, with some of the largest and most powerful Telescopes and Observatories in the world, which look into inner and outer space.   On our way back down the mountain we stopped at the famous Lavendar farm.  We toured the farm, ate fresh scones with Lavendar Coffee and of course Ashleea and I did our usual shopping, buying Lavendar gifts of all kinds and descriptions.  We had to get home by 3pm, so Bobby could go to the Kahului Maui airport and pick up Sherry and Tim from their return trip from Honolulu at 3:30pm.  After Bobby picked up Sherry and Tim from the airport he showed them several restaurants before they got home, as Tim had requested a good local place and nothing too fancy.  They went by Stella Blues,  The Wave, Mulligans on The Blue, etc..  After they got home Ashleea suggested they go to Three's for dinner, which they did.  They sit outside on a veranda under a big tree, which had glimpses of the ocean and the shopping near by.  After a great dinner, we girls did our usual hour or so of shopping, while Bobby and Tim sit casually and relaxed in the restaurant drinking some local beers.  No rush on Maui, it is laid back with the Aloha Spirit!.

Tuesday, we all got up early around 5:30am and was out of the house and stopped at Charlie's in Paia for breakfast (the place Willy Nelson hangs out and performs many small surprise concerts on Maui).  We were in route to Hana, passing over the 53 narrow bridges on the road that winds around the mountain to what is referred to as Heavenly Hana.  Five of us in the small rental car of Tim's, with Bobby in the back between Sherry and Sue which buffered him from the many turns.  Ashleea drove and Tim was the co-pilot.  Many tourists turn around about half way, because of motion sickness and the many close calls of almost hitting other vehicles on the narrow roads.  It takes about 2 hours to drive 35 miles.  We drove through Hana onto the Seven Sacred Pools, where we dropped Tim and Bobby off for their 4 mile hike through the bamboo forest, water falls and on to a giant water fall coming down from over a cliff some 400 feet high above, one of the highest water falls on Maui, that one can walk to.   While they were hiking we did a lot of shopping from the road side local vendors selling many different sorts of handicraft art and crafts, including many exotic fruits, fresh coconut water (drinking directly from coconuts), flower leis etc..  We went back to the head of the trail and arrived at precisely the time Bobby and Tim were coming out of the jungle, a little after 2 pm.  We than proceed to begin our trip back, with a short stop at a nest of Vendors selling food along the road.  We got a snack and traveled on to Makawao (cowboy town on Maui, where the cowboys were still hitching their ponies to Hitching posts as late as the  1990's) and the hitching posts are still there today.  We wanted to get there before the shops closed at 6pm, because Sherry wanted to purchase chimes at one of the shops.  We got there safely due in large part to Ashleea's supreme driving skills, nerves of steel and knowing all the short cuts across the island.  After shopping for about 45 minutes in several of the many quaint little old shops we ate dinner at Casanova's an old Italian restaurant in Makawao.  We got home around 9pm and still had our nightly Uker game, although we were all exhausted.

Wednesday was the big day that Sherry and Tim were going to get their Tattoos from "Spikes West Side Ink", where Ashleea's daughter Genvieve's husband Jeremy works as a Tattoo artist.  Since they were going there, Bobby decided to play golf with his regular four-some again, the first time he played golf while we were visiting. He had missed his Wednesday and Sunday golfing outings to honor the presence of his guests.  It gave me a chance to catch my breath and just hang around the house and relax.  When Bobby got home from golf, about 5pm, he took a quick shower and we all headed to Lahaina to meet Sherry and Tim and have dinner at the Lahaina Cooler, close to the Tattoo shop.  It turns out that the owner of Spikes gave Sherry her Tattoo on the front of her shoulder and it was a Beautiful Hibiscus flower with a Dragon Fly (Sherry's Totem).  After Sherry had her tattoo, Jeremy did a tattoo on Tim, Tim's first tattoo, which was a heart with a dagger through it and Ohio State written in.  That means Tim is more than a fan of Ohio State.  He is willing to bleed for Ohio State.  Wow!  And my brother Bobby thought he was a fan!!  After dinner and much discussion about the day, we returned home about 9 pm for our nightly Uker game.

Thursday morning, was our departure day.  We all got packed and went to a late breakfast at Three's.  After a wonderful breakfast, we went to the Airport for our Return to the Mainland of the USA, from these remote islands some 4,000 miles from any land masses (most remote islands in the world).   I did not get any rock fever or even realize I was on these isolated islands.  I felt very relaxed and pleased to visit my brother Bobby and his lady Ashleea and had such a most awesome time taking in the many sights, smells of sugar cane harvest, fresh pineapples, fresh flowers of every kind and the most beautiful and exotic sights of the mountains and the ocean.  What a fun and delightful trip, I wish I could have stayed for at least a couple more months.  Tim returned his rental car and we departed Maui at 1pm.  First flight was to LA.  Second flight was from LA to Columbus, Ohio arriving at 7am on Friday morning.  Ann and Herb were at the airport in Columbus to greet me and pick me up.  I stayed at their house until about 2:30 pm before my daughter Bobbie picked me up and drove me back to my home in Wills Creek.