Days 4, 5, and 6 in Maui

Day 4

Today was such a great day! For some reason (even though it was my birthday) yesterday I was so tired and felt a little overwhelmed with the kids. I’m blaming it on the Dramamine from the day before on our road to Hana. Seriously, I even fell asleep next to the pirate ship at the pool (Libby was sleeping). We got up early and got ready and headed to the pool and beach. The kids got to do a treasure hunt at the pirate ship which was really fun!

After playing by the pool for a while, we went on a walk and walked down to Whaler’s village where we found a McDonalds and enjoyed some nuggets. We were tired of the uncrustables we’ve been eating at our hotel room!

We went out to the beach and the water was much calmer and there was no wind which was very nice. Libby and Sawyer as usual enjoyed playing in the soft powdery sand.

After a fun day in the sun we headed back to our room and got showered and dressed and went back down to walk around the resort and enjoy the relaxing sunset. Maui transforms into a fun place when the sun goes down. We walked along the beach walk lined with tiki torches and listened to live hawaiian music coming from all the restaurants and hotels we passed. I was a little sad Chris wasn’t with us but he was working really hard Monday through Thursday so he could take Friday off and enjoy a full day with us. Nonetheless we had a great time, it made me excited for the day when we could come here without kids and without work and just relax in a hammock and watch the sun dip into the ocean. Seriously (even with kids), Hawaii is the most romantic place I’ve ever been. Here are some fun pictures from our walk…

We walked by a new pool area we hadn’t been to and Carter still had his trunks on so he took a dip while Maddie and Sawyer put their feet in.

We found a fun playground the kids played on for a while.

The kids were exhausted when we got back to the room, Chris brought some pizza back and we relaxed for the night.

Day 5

On Wednesday we spent another fun day at the pool. We went back to the room early and Chris was able to come home in the afternoon so we went out to the beach and snorkeled! It was so much fun! Since we couldn’t take all the kids, I went out alone while Chris waited on the shore and Chris took Maddie out. We saw all kinds of beautiful fish and a gigantic sea turtle and it was AMAZING!

Carter discovered that he could swim all by himself if he used a snorkel!

Black Rock- where we snorkeled. It was so easy to just swim right out and snorkel. Chris and I both agree that we’d love to come back and snorkel more when its just the two of us. It was a little difficult with the kids.

We walked back on the beach walk and enjoyed some time on the hammocks. Then we got all cleaned up and went to dinner at a restaurant at our hotel that had live music and was right in front of the ocean.

We had so much fun on our walk the night before that we took daddy on the walk. We even got a little alone time in a hammock while the kids played tag in the grass. I wished I could just pause time and stay in paradise forever. We walked past a party at one of the hotels that had this huge wave, the kids jumped on and took a picture.

Day 6

Today was pretty low key. The kids had tons of homework they brought with them since they were missing school for an entire week and a day. So we stayed inside all morning and got caught up on most of the homework. When Chris got home from work we went out the pool for one last time since we are checking out tomorrow. Here are a few pictures from our day at the pool…

After our day at the pool we went to Outback again for dinner. Libby fell asleep in her stroller so we had a nice quiet dinner. We are packing up tomorrow morning which I’m kind of sad about since I really like this resort but I am excited to see Wailea where our next hotel is.