Maui 5-6

March 23 (Pool Day)
March 24 (Beach Day)

 We had breakfast in the room most mornings since Lucas can't eat very many breakfast foods, and it saved a little money.  Lucas thought it was fun to sit on the floor and eat his cereal.  He only dumped it out once or twice!

 The girls eating their breakfast with a view from our balcony.

 Lucas's blanket got dropped in a puddle of really gross water by the pool and smelled disgusting.  We decided it was time to wash it in the bath tub with shampoo.  While it was soaking Lucas found it.  I saw him standing by it and reaching for it, but the next thing I knew he had climbed into the bath with his pajamas on to snuggle his blankie.  He couldn't stand to be away from it.  We squeezed it out and Matt even used a hair dryer to get it as dry as possible and get it back to him quick!  So precious!

 Matt asked around and found us the best kid beach and place for breakfast.  We ate at the Sea House with everyone and then played on the beach at Napili Bay.  Lucas fell asleep in his stroller for most of the time and Grandma was nice enough to hang out with him.  I went out snorkeling with James and Ayme, and Matt took a turn going out too.  We saw a small sea turtle while we were snorkeling and a couple of larger ones came right up to shore.  The girls put on their goggles and got to swim with a sea turtle for the first time!  Matt waded out with Lucas and showed him too, he got pretty excited when he saw it! It was a beautiful, calm beach, and we had a great day.

 Our Sea House breakfast.  It was so delicious.  I had pancakes with mangoes and pineapples.

 Our whole group!  This was the only picture we got with everyone together.





After the beach we went to John and Ayme's hotel and had Chinese take out and watched the cliff jumpers at black rock.  We took some pictures from their balcony at the Sheraton.  It was really pretty.

 I spent a lot of mornings dumping bags out and refilling and reorganizing!  Lucas was always very "helpful" with this job!

 We had another pool day.  We couldn't get enough of these!  I know Matt would have lived at the beach, but it was definitely easier to manage everyone at the pool.  The kids loved swimming, playing, splashing, sliding, etc. and the drink and food service was pretty nice too!

 Emilyn said to "call her grandma" and to call grandma "Emilyn."  She borrowed her hat and glasses for a while.

 Uncle Chunk was awesome to help out with the kids.  Here he is taking Lucas on a ride in his penguin we brought him.  He wasn't as big of a fan as we were hoping!

 My little pool loungers!  We were always up so early with the kids that we were able to save great seats right at the front of the pool.  There was also this great step all the way around this side of the pool for the kids to stand on and jump off.

 Mom and Chunk were so nice to keep the kids at the pool and watch them so Matt and I could have one night to ourselves.  We got ready quickly and ate at the nice restaurant at the hotel.  It was open air with the ducks swimming in the pond.  One very friendly duck kept getting out of the water to wander around and walk under our table!  We had a very delicious and peaceful fish dinner.  We found everyone else (John and Ayme stayed at the pool too) just finishing their dinner at the pool restaurant.  We had happy, exhausted kids. We are thankful for our night together!