Maui Day 7! (No, I'm not done yet). :)

Remember when I went to Hawaii...back in October? And remember when I made you read about it post after picture-filled post? And remember how you thought I was done? haha.. Yeah, I recently realized I wasn't, but then never got around to doing the rest...

Okay, so with the foot of snow still sitting outside...and my shovel leaning against the door, my hat and gloves all ready for me to put on again tomorrow, there's no time like the present for a beach fix via blog. :)

Day 7 was our last full day in Maui. We hit the beach a little on day 8 before our flight, but there are a lot of frowns in those pictures...haha.. I'll add that post sometime this week and link all the others (b/c I KNOW you can't wait to recap it all again...haha.. ) Sorry for the rambling blogs, but a lot of this is for my memories too, ya know... :)

Okay, so day 7... We woke up and were eager to hit the beach! This picture makes me feel even lazier for not hitting the gym in all this snow....or at all recently...*head hung in shame* I'd worked out so much before Maui and was so proud of myself... *sigh* I need to get my rear back in gear. 

Well, let me rephrase..one of us was eager to hit the beach...haha.. Someone was moving more slowly than I was... ;) (which NEVER happens in the morning. I am definitely the lazy one 99.9% of time in the am). 

Some of the condos for sale near our hotel. Who wants to go in with me? I think they only went for a few mil, so that's like sofa change right?!... haha.. (obviously kidding) ;)

We should really teach a class in self timer 101. We rock.

*wistful sigh*

Can't have a full day on the beach without boogie boards.. duh. 

Yeah, I did this. And then I made Eric do it too. Whatever.

(I also wrote Aloha, Jackie and Eric, and drew a heart. Sand writing and I became friends.)

This video turned out rather cool. :)  Makes me feel like my feet are still in the sand. :)

 
Eric and me... er... Eric's feet and me... :)

A good book. Beach chairs. Umbrella. Sound of the waves. View of paradise. *ahhhhhhhhh*

He kinda rocked the boogie board. I caught a few good waves (and didn't embarrass myself...always a bonus), but when I got sand in places I didn't really enjoy (haha), I decided to sun myself and photo Eric catching waves. :)

This video makes me smile. 

 
See Eric?! Clouds rollin in... I was trying to be artsy. Whatev.

Dinner at the FABULOUS restaurant in our hotel, Nick's. We'd read amazing things about it and then realized it was IN our hotel! Heck yeah! We opted to wait til the last night to go...and that was a good choice. Fabulous last dinner... :) I got the dress in Maui the night I went shopping when Eric had a migraine. I now call it my "Maui dress." :)

Please note that one arm is MUCH more sunburned than the other...haha... I may have not realized half my body was under the umbrella while the other half wasn't... Oooohwell!

When we sat down, the table next to us had just received some awesome flaming dessert. We looked at each other and said "We're so getting that." Soooo we did. I mean, hello.. it was on FIRE! And lookie at the pretty design the server made on my plate while I was sitting there!

Seriously the best service I've ever had and amazing food. Those people take their jobs SERIOUSLY. I went to the bathroom and was walking back to the table and I walk fast... okay, right... Well, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a server RUNNING to beat me to the table to pull my chair back out! Okay okay, she was walk-running, but still! I stammered at thank you, but was totally floored. Eric and I also had a bet that I couldn't drink all my water before they filled it up again. He won. Pretty funny, but seriously an outstanding experience. :) This is the place we ended up getting a gift certificate for my friends honeymooning there the week after we went! They had a the same outstanding experience! (We also planned pictures in the exact same spot a week apart in the hotel lobby... kinda cheesy, but I love it.) :) If you go to Maui, eat at Nick's. Trust me. 

They changed the carpets in our elevators with the Hawaiian greeting/English greeting according to the time of day. Kinda fun! (ignore the water spots from someone who'd likely been at the beach before us). 

No, we didn't drink too much..haha... We really were this relaxed by the end of the vacation... (these pics crack me up and make me smile).

I'll do the very final post this week... after I watch all my videos from Maui at least 100 times a few times to re-live the beach... :)

I have some funny pics of G dog in the snow this week, too... and a video. She may have chased a squirrel under the back deck and somehow gotten stuck under it. Good grief...haha... I love that little dog. Finally got my car out today! Yesterday, went out and about a little w Eric. I'll do a weekend recap soon. We're expected to get 5-10 more inches this week. If we do, we'll beat our record for amount of snow in an entire winter....in a two week time frame. Crazy! 

Signing off with visions of Maui on the brain... Much love, friends! Hope the weekend was great!