From Snow To Sun

February 23-26
It's amazing when you think of it when you can go from cold weather where the sun shines bright but when you go out side your freezing with the wind blowing to having that same sun shining bright but it's warm.  We have had three days of 83 degrees wind the same wind blowing a cool breeze.  Just like Raffi singing "Mr. sun,sun Mr. golden sun why don't you shine on me. Our grand kids loved him.
Sunday 23rd we started to pack.  It all starts with all our cloths laid out ready to pack.

When you prepare like that it goes fast.  We had to decide what clothes went in our carry on and what clothes in our luggages to be checked.  I don't know how you are but that last night is hard because you wake up several times to check the clock that has been set for your wake up.  I did that several times and still got up 30 minutes early.  That was two hours before our pick up time.  We are to the age now where we go the airport in Go Right which is a nice Lincoln.  You don't have to worry about driving or parking in a huge parking ramp and the walking into the terminal.  Oh by the way and remembering where you parked your car when you get home.

Monday 24th Off we went to Seattle. Our breakfast was served on the plane.  We had a four hour flight.  We got a good tale wind a arrived there an hour early.

We left on time for Maui on a long marathon flight of six hours and thirdly minutes.  Right a way we were served Mai Tais

A half hour later the stewardess came around and asked us what we wanted to drink we picked some white wine.  We thought the wine was for dinner, it wasn't.  We ordered tenderloin, no picture because it was not that good.  You may ask why I spending so much time on drinking.  Well there were two people were so drunk across from us and the two in front of them were also drunk  We never saw a stewardess pushed drinks like that.  Thus we had extra entertainment. We arrived in Maui on time, what a day. We stop at Leoda's Kitchen and had our favorite chicken pot pie.

Tuesday 24th was our day to run errands.  We always eat breakfast at CJs . We don't need a menu for order.

Macadamia, banana pancakes

Fried  rice and scrambled eggs

 Next we went to  Safeway for food and over to Mauigrown coffee store to get our favorite
Peaberry coffee.  We had a nice salad for lunch.

A little wine and a great salad eaten on our lanai sitting in the sun with a slight warm breeze.  After a rest we were sitting on the lanai when I saw something I've only heard about.  When a female whale gives birth they will bring the young calf close to shore.  Guess what?  There they were a female whale with her calf just maybe 40-50 yards off shore.  The mother swimming on the inside close to shore and right next to the young calf.  Every once and a while she would lift up the calf so it would stay up.  They both swam real slow.  They must have been at least a half hour right out there.  Can you believe that?

Today Wednesday 26 we are still tired from our trip so we didn't do much.  My lovely wife has a cold so we aren't doing much.  We had breakfast on the lanai.

I still read the paper every morning.
Can you believe it, a female whale was out there again teaching the youngster how to tale slap the water and breaching.  I took some pictures I had to zoom in so they may not be the best but here they are.

First picture shows the young calf doing the tail slap.  The rest are the calf breaching.

There you are that was our first two whole days here.
See ya.