Day 5 - Start of Maui

Started the day off with the Maui Swap meet in Kahalui. Not bad, but less handmade stuff than we were expecting. We did get some excellent mango and pineapple to eat for breakfast and then some papayas and tomatoes to take home. Our only other purchase was a turtle necklace for Shawnna and a pair of earrings for Jamie. The turtle necklace was white shell material, looked very nice and was handmade in Maui.

After the swap meet we got some various groceries and necessity shopping done and headed back to the condo so we could get ready to go to our massages. We had decided that our saved change for the past three years would go to a splurge. We thought that since this was supposed to be a relaxation vacation a massage would be the perfect thing.

We had the massage at Spa Grande at the Grand Wailea Resort. Gorgeous resort, ridiculously expensive, where like 7 nights there equals our entire vacation, but it sure was nice. Our massages included an hour of terme’ which included sauna’s, whirlpools, etc, which even I had to admit was quite enjoyable. This was done separately (men and women) and then we had our massages done together. Most relaxing 50 minutes of our life. After we were done, we both agreed that we felt amazingly relaxed.

We drove back to Kihei for dinner at Pupu’s Grill. We ordered our first drinks of vacation (Dream of Love – Shawnna, Mai Tai – Daniel) and then we had a satay sampler and the catch of day. The satay sampler came with beef, scallop, chicken and shrimp with the most delicious Thai sauce. The meat didn’t need any sauce, but we kept dipping it anyway because the sauce was so good. The catch of the day was walu and we had it macadamia nut crusted. It tasted great. Our server was hilarious and he was the one that recommended the catch of day. All in all, exactly the type of dinner that I had expected. After we got back and looked up the fish, we learned that it was actually called a “butterfish” because of the gastrointestinal problems that it tends to cause due to the high fat content. We were really glad that we had only shared a small portion.

Shawnna wasn’t feeling too well (pressure in her ear and the back of her neck) so we went to bed early. Tomorrow was Haleakala sunrise so we went to bed early since we were leaving by 3:30AM.