Maui Travel Journal-Sunday

June 11, 2006

Up EARLY! Watched the sunrise from the balcony. Had the breakfast buffet at Ono. Grabbed our snorkel gear and headed over to Black Rock for the first snorkeling of the trip. Just as we rounded the point we saw our first turtle. We hadn’t even been in the water 5 minutes! Stayed at Black Rock until around 10am. Went back to get ourselves cleaned up then to the concierge desk to talk to Jim, who was our personal concierge. He gave us some good ideas of things to hit but I had already planned most of them. I don’t think he knew what to make of me. He asked if we wanted another $100 credit to attend a timeshare presentation but we turned him down. He wasn’t pushy about it at all. Next we went to Long’s to drop off the snorkeling pictures. Since it was going to be a couple of hours we decided to try Aloha Mixed Plate (AMP) since it was right there. I had the Hawaiian Plate; it had Kalua Pork with cabbage, 2 scoops of rice, one of mac salad, lomi lomi salmon and poi. I had the Sassy Wahine to drink. It is basically at mango margarita with a strawberry swirl and a li hui ming powder on the rim. Matt had the Kalua Pork sandwich and a Kona Brewing Co. Longboard Lager. We decided that we can never eat at Ohana Grill again without missing AMP. Picked up the pictures and went back to the Westin. It was getting quite warm. We thought we would go hit the pool. The grown up pool. No rugrats there. There were no chairs in the shade. I jumped in to cool off then we went and sat in the shade by the Beach Bar, which is funny since it is next to the pool. Still too hot so we went back to the room to cool off. Watched a little Visitors Channel then we went into Lahaina to have dinner at Kimo’s. We didn’t have to wait long for a table. Erika was our server and she was great. I had the opakapaka and Matt had the opah. Both were done Kimo’s Style. We were stuffed so no Hula Pie. Darn, have to come back.