Maui - Day 6

The kids wanted to check out a different beach, so we packed up our stuff and headed for Wailea Beach. The boogie boarding tends to be better there, so our son was very excited about the morning. We managed to find a parking spot (which was remarkable for a Saturday morning) and hauled all of our stuff down to the beach. We set up camp against the rocks at the far end of the beach so we would have some shade, and it turned out that the family set up next to us was from Sunnyvale and the dad works about a mile from our house. Small world!

Mike let me go out to snorkel first, so I swam out along the rocks to get past the break. The visibility was terrible, so I continued out to see if I could find some clear water. I ended up in a swarm of jellyfish instead. I'm not easily freaked out while in the water, but jellyfish in the tropics can be really bad news, so I quickly turned around and swam back in. There were no ill effects from the jellies, but we stayed close to shore for the rest of the morning anyway.

There were some great waves, so Mike and I took turns on the boogie boards. Our son had one to himself and happily spent the whole morning riding waves. We all got some great rides and the waves got progressively bigger as the morning went on. I was in my element and had a great time! Our older daughter spent her time snorkeling in the shallows and picking up rocks and bits of coral that she found on the bottom, while our youngest hung out with Mike in the water.

All in all, it was a great morning. We finally got hungry, so we left the beach and went to Maui Tacos (again). The family that was next to us overheard us and decided it sounded good, too, so we ended up seeing them there. Our older daughter didn't really want tacos, so I took her next door to the natural food market to put together a salad. She's the only 5-year-old I can think of who would happily choose a salad over tacos!

We went back to the condo for the little one to nap. Our older daughter had been complaining about her ear hurting, so I took her to urgent care to get it checked out. We waited for an hour for the doctor to see her for approximately 60 seconds and diagnose her with exactly what I told him was happening. It was a lovely case of swimmer's ear, for which he prescribed ear drops and told her to stay out of the water for at least 2 days. Yeah, right. So we went back to the Safeway pharmacy for another prescription and more Motrin.

After we got back to the condo, we took everybody down to the pool for a while. We all swam for a bit and then went back up to the condo to get cleaned up for dinner. We went to Joe's Bar and Grill, which we've been to before, but it wasn't really as good this time. The food was just average and I ended up feeling pretty nauseous for the rest of the night, so it wasn't the highlight of the trip. The kids had fun riding the golf cart to and from the parking lot, so it wasn't a total loss.