We spent yesterday, our last day in Maui, killing time before our flight out. Originally, Janis and C3 were going to leave for Seattle at about 3 o'clock and mom and I were going to take the Jeep and toodle around until our 11:20pm flight out. But on our final night, Janis discovered that Seattle's weather had taken a turn for the worse and the high was going to be freezing for the next couple of days. So they decided that since her birthday was Friday and since this IS her birthday trip, they'd get another place to stay in Kihei and stay until Saturday. So that gave all of us one more full day to explore together.
We took a small tour of the Maui Tropical Plantation and saw a bunch of crops that they grow there (mangoes, papaya, pineapple, sugar cane, star fruit...), had lunch at Da Kitchen in Kahului (close to the airport) where the local food is famous and fantastic - a word of warning, I recommend the place highly but for God's sake, share something! I'm attempting to bring some leftover kalua pork home for bryan - and then drove toward the slope of Haleakala Volcano to Surfing Goat Dairy, a 42 acre goat farm that has one of the 3 humane certifications in the country for raising goats. And oh, what a life they lead...
On the way to Surfing Goat, we saw Ocean Vodka, a sugar cane field and distillery. Yes please. We stopped, sampled some sugar cane (my first, and Omg it's good) and drank some sugar cane vodka while looking out over what would have been a beautiful Vista of both the North Shore and the South Shore... If it weren't for the fog.
Today, Friday, is my sister's birthday. I'd like you all to join me in wishing her a happy birthday and a hope that the weather is beautiful for her for the next couple of days. And we should be jealous anyway because, after all, a bad day in Maui beats the pants off a nice day almost anywhere else... HAPPY BIRTHDAY JANIS! We were so glad to have shared it with you... Mahalo!
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