Traveling

January 30-31

On the 30th we went from Milwaukee to Minnesota and then on to L.A.  Maybe it is the excitement of the trip but I never sleep well.  My problem is I'm always thinking the alarm set of 2:45 will not go off.  I wake up every half hour and turn on my phone to make sure it's is on.  Finally I got up at 2:30 I couldn't sleep any more. You know we also have  a triple threat to worry about.  We had the weather, the Trump demonstrations in L.A. and last Delta computers went down.

The weather  

You know when you have been waiting the whole year for this trip you start looking at the weather 15 days out.  I knew we were about to get 2 inches of snow Monday night. We had a lull in the storm so I went outside and cleared the side walk.  The next morning worrying about the snow I went out only to find out it was still snowing and we got more than 2" inches.  So you all know me I made an area for the van to park so we wouldn't have to trudge through the snow.  Looking at the driveway my next worry was that the driver from Go Rite wouldn't be able to get in. He did and we were on our way only to find out we had two other stops to make.  Now I know it is a shared ride but we never had to share, five years now and in a snow storm. We went into Waukesha off of G. Yes heading went to go east.  Oh did I say and driving slow! This old lady and husband who later said she all ways traveled in a wheel chair were now walking out to the van and down a driveway that was so slippery that the van could not go up after two attempts. Next we drove into Brookfield/Waukesha and drove almost to Capital Drive to pickup the next guy.  As we were leaving we could not drive up the incline to leave.  We backed out the way we came in.  Yes not a very good planed circle.  Okay we are now on our way heading east yea! We hit the freeway that was good traveling and he took off like grease lighten for the airport.  We were picked up at 4:00 and now it was about 5:30.  We made it to our gate with about a half hour before boarding.  This is not the way I travel, just ask Sam.  Once in Orlando I had us down stairs before the TSA was there.  Oh we stayed in the airport Hyatt in a conference room, but that's another story.  Read travel problems from this web site.

Travel to the cities

We got to our gate and they were already loading the plane.  So I got in line and told Clela to hurry and get in line.  She said Gene, Gene your not going to Atlanta are you.

Okay maybe I was  a little nervous After a gate change our flight was on time.  We had a small plane, seating two by two.  Great flight with no problems.

If you ever traveled to the Minnesota airport you had better have your running shoes on, not so good for Clela.  We ate breakfast at one of those places that didn't have waitress just an IPad.

Had some problems navigating but got my order with  a little help.  I"ll do better next time.  That system is coming to all airports.  Oh by the way I payed 18% to someone who brought my food out.  All right she did help me my order.

Now to our gate.  put your track shoes on baby because it was a long hall. Being here before we knew about the carts.  We got on and there was no way Clela could have walked it.

 Traveling to LAX

We always have a plan when traveling with seat 3 by 3 we always book seats A and C.  Most people don't like sitting in the middle. First of all to do this there is a charge to upgrade and then to have to set in the middle is a double whammy, thus we have nobody sitting in the middle.  Well it didn't work.  We had a young man who was a good traveler.  He worked in his computer most of the way.  Oh who got the middle you may ask me.  We have another system the is if it is a women Clela sits in the middle and if a man I do.  We had a pleasant flight to LAX.  Upon arriving we got an phone call that I thought was phishing call so I hung up.  We went down stairs to get our bags and found no bags!  We went to the service desk and they track our bags.  Our bags went on a early flight.  Wow a maybe I should have listen the the whole phone message.  We found our way to our bus and traveled to the Hyatt LAX.  This hotel was just remodeled.  We have been waiting for this change about a year because it wasn't a Hyatt.  Now being a Hyatt we arranged used points, so that's free baby.  Love free stuff.  Beautiful.

 I'd call it a modern retro.  The furniture in our room was new but retro in style.  After taking a rest we went down and had a lunch/supper in a bar. We went up stairs and basically went to bed.

January 31st Traveling to Maui

This was our big day, we are flying first class.  Can you believe it all those years flying coach with no room to move.  All those years of fighting the person in front of me because when they put their seat back to the point we couldn't reach our tray to eat.  All these years of no leg room.  Well no more. Okay just one leg flying going and one leg going home. The Hyatt van was on time. I though we would run into those Trump protesting.  No protesting and a another worry crossed off my worry list.
Boarding the plane

Every time we have boarded a plane we always turn to the right.  This time we went to the front of the plane to the third roll.  Holly Cow those seats were huge.
 The leg room was more than comfort plus.
After we took off they gave us Mai ties to get in a good Hawaiian mood.

 Next they served us breakfast. As the flight attendant was handing out the warm towels to wash our hands the same time an announcement was made that there was no food just snacks for the rest of the passengers, we had food. We had a choice of an omelet or oat meal.  We had the omelet.

All through the flight the flight attendance were on the run.  I sat back in my chair and said to Clela ahhh this is where I belong.
We arrived in Maui about 1:30, 5:30 your time.  A flight I will never forget.
Our condo
We picked up our car and our first stop was at the coffee outlet store for our brand of coffee that is grown just up the mountain side.

Our next stop we went to Goodwill for our beach chairs.  We found two new chairs for $14.00 dollars. You can't beat that.  We were suppose to get the door combo numbers upon arriving. No way, that fell through, however we knew where to go to get the numbers.  There office is right across the street.  Even tho we were getting into our condo around three we were tired.  I think part of the problem was we had to get up so early two days in a roll, 2:30 on Tuesday and 4:00 on Wednesday.
Well that's our first two days. I still liked the two days but we'll see next year.  See you later.

2016 Changing plans

Oh no, no not Ono the fish, I mean that breakfast cereal has returned. 

It's all Clela's fault. Just kidding. We changed our plans several times and our plans changed because of our AC. First we had our coffee. 

We were planning on eating out. Then she thought we can only eat out once a day. This is coming from the lady who said we're going to eat out more this year. Oh no food in condo we have to eat out. 

Now we're eating in so we ate our Papaya. 

Okay these are old pictures. We ate just a papaya. We got a text from Kathy saying she wanted some flower hair clips. Plans change again. Hey we can get a breakfast, a warm breakfast from the ABC store and we can pick up Kathy's hair clips.  Then we get the phone call from the AC specialist saying he wanted to trouble shoot the AC. Plans change again. Clela says you wait for the AC guy and I'll go down stairs and get some cereal (nothing warm about that). Well off she goes and I wait for the AC guy. Same guy we had before. He wants to trouble shoot. I told him we had AC and when it didn't work I would turn off the circuit breaker to reboot the system. This gave us AC all the time. The only problem was the AC never turned off even when you opened the Patio doors. He solved the problem by closing our bedroom door. Bad switch by the door. They are connected to the thermostat by wifi which goes through the bedroom before the thermostat. Now you know the real story. 

Things you haven't seen. 

Here is a man walking around with long pants on with a winter quilted vest on in 82 degrees weather. 

 

Here is a guy that tans every day by the pool by the ocean. About every half hour he goes by this ledge  and lays down in the ocean for 30 seconds and goes back to his chair. Can't quite figure this one out. 

Lunch is what you call eat everything in the condo. Did you ever have a sandwich with a 1/4" of meat? Well I did. 

This afternoon was not spent at the ocean nor the pool but packing, and getting our boarding passes. But we did get to spend sometime doing our favorite activity sitting down by the ocean. As for our latest routine of taking an afternoon swim. 

Now we are off to the supper for a wonderful meal.

A burrito for me. 

Fish tacos for Clela

Well that's it we both enjoyed sharing our days with you. We look forward to next February when we'll be back. 

Oh one more blog tomorrow. 

See ya. 

2016 Mahalo

Mahalo until next year

Beauty is all around us all you have to is take the time to look. 

Beauty is all around us you only have to take time to enjoy it. 

Mahalo 

2016 Hello, again

Hello again, I was wondering what type of breakfast I'll find today. Hello again

Newbies are taking pictures of the Koi, others are taking their first plunge into the new pool. The doves are singing in the palms. There is a feeling in the air that everything is new and right with the world.  It's only 7:30 in the morning. They're not use to the time change yet. 

HELLO, Gene, or should I say "tender foot," aren't you going to ask me how my feet are?  Well there fine. I should know better. Buckle up Bucky, this is not the first go around. Okay you be the judge. 

Okay the one on top looks a little gray. Trauma, will do that.  Oh in case your wondering those are my pjs. Hey, they are appropriate. Look they have little boats, ocean and birds. That I think is appropriate attire for sitting on the lanai right. Some of the newbies are still wearing there jeans. HELLO, this is Hawaii, put the jeans away until you go home. 

We went out for breakfast this morning at the resort restaurant. Somethings I wander why we go so far just to eat. Well Clela decided she was going to dress up. Hey me I just had a pair of shorts and a tee shirt on. Well I just had to change. Okay, I put on a different tee shit and add a little bling around the neck. 

 

There is beauty everywhere. 

When ever we have a choice we set outside. We ordered omelettes. 

So much to eat. Where else can you sit, eat, watch whales breach and watch competitive high school outriggers race. 

 

Sorry you might have to zoom in to find the boats. 

On our way back to our condo I wanted to compare both pools. Which one would you go to. 

These two pictures are from the pool by the ocean. 

This is the second pool and the newest. Remember I want you to zoom in on both pools. 

They both have hot tubs off to the side. You have twenty four hours to vote. Vote Kaanapali Shore.com

Just kidding.

We ate lunch half from breakfast and Supper last night. Afterwards we settled in to the exciting conclusion of Harry Bosch. Never mess with Harry Bosch. 

Time for more of Clela's Bucket List. Good golly Miss Molly we are off to Lahaina. Just to let you know her bucket list is growing. We got all duded up and the way we went. It was very warm in Lahaina at out first stop.  I'll show you the picture.  

 When we donated the chairs back what was nice was when the woman said she remembered us. That made us feel good. When we bought the chairs 3 week ago I told her we would be back.  Now off to our favorite parking lot, $4.00 all day. Some places charge $4.00 an hour. Well here we go. 

 

Yes, yes, yes shaved ice. If you ever come to Maui this place is a must. 

You're looking at Passion fruit and Mango with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on the bottom. Yum, oh did I tell you on top we had what is called a snow cap that is sweeten condensed milk. 

Oh so good. Hey we both finished ours. I had a few freezes to deal with. You have got to try it. 

We found a new restaurant. 

Maybe next year.  It was such a wonderful day. 

Sail boats were racing, there were people shopping and like us having a good time. 

Now back to our condo just to full to eat. 

We decided to see a sunset. With very little clouds we had a good chance. Most days there is a cloud bank just as the sun is setting. 

 No too much sun, try again. 

I like this one because of clouds above the sun. Here's the last one. 

Well I liked the middle one how about you?  Well that was our day. 

See ya