Above two pictures taken inside and outside of Mama's Fish House.

Another fantastic but short annual visit from Debi and Tim from Ct. This was the 27th year in a row that Debi has made her annual pilgrimage to Hawaii. What a fantastic time we had once again. They arrived in good health and full of energy. So off we went after picking them up at Noon from the Airport, we made our way to Mama's Fish House for lunch. On the way there we noticed the traffic backed all the way up from Kahului. This was about 12:15pm. When we left Mama's at 3pm the traffic was backed up even further, so Ashleea my lady said turn left towards Twin Falls. I almost brought our guests to Visit our friends Will and Kalima at Twin Falls, but Ashleea said you cannot impose without notifying them in advance. I replied to her that she is correct. These people have visited us two years in a row, so I said next year, we will see if it is OK for us to visit Will and Kalima with our guests. We turned at Haiku, drove through there and up to Makawao, down to Halimaile General store and back down the mountain.

We then took them to visit our friend Dr. Tom Vendetti, who just got home from work at 4pm. He lives about a mile from Swinging Bridges hike (which he informed us is no longer available to anyone), how sad. I wanted them to see the view from his veranda, which looks like a view one might see in Africa, you see no houses just the natural beauty of the West Maui mountains. Also wanted them to visit and meet Tom. We stayed there for about one hour and than headed back to Kihei.

Before they left on January 5, 2012, we all went to a long breakfast at Gannon's (former Seawatch restaurant) in Wailea . They were on Oahu since Dec 27th and only diverted over to Maui to spend a few days with us January 4 & 5th.

We were sad to see them leave, but were happy with the thought that they will return next year, just like our annual visit from the Whales in Maui waters.