Monday, April 1, 2019. Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii

Monday, April 1, 2019. Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii

A lovely blue sky greeted us as we dropped anchor off Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii.  We could actually see whales in the channel between Maui and Niihau Islands from our balcony, although they were probably at least a half mile away and not doing much more than periodically surfacing, but Janet did see a huge splash from at least one breach.  

We didn’t have any excursions booked because we have been on Maui before, including a two week stay where we did just about everything there is to do on the island.  We had a leisurely breakfast and then got in line for the tenders to take us into Lahaina harbor.

The tender operations were very slow because Lahaina only allows one tender in their marina at a time, and they have to wait for any other traffic to enter or exit the marina.  It took more than a half hour from when we picked up our tender tickets to setting foot on the dock in the harbor.  We did a walking tour of Lahaina after picking up a tourist map at the visitor information center just across the street from the tender dock.  A lot of the town did appear familiar. We walked past the place where our kids took surfing lessons, and then walked the length of Front street, reading the brass plaques at historical points of interest, and gawking at merchandise in the stores.  We did end up buying an unusual pearl pendant to add to our collection of natural wonders.  

It did take a great deal of will power to not sit down for a big helping of Hula Pie, but we did have some shaved ice and ice cream to keep our cool.  We have really lucked out on the weather, which as perfect today with clear blue skies and temperatures in the mid to upper 70’s.  A nice breeze kept us comfortable.  

We returned to the ship after a couple of hours pounding the pavement of Lahaina, and had a rejuvenating afternoon tea.  We played the afternoon trivia by ourselves since the rest of our regular team was still not back from their excursions.  We didn’t shame ourselves, but also fell several points behind the winners.  There was some time to relax on our balcony with an amazing view of Niihau island.  

We grabbed a casual dinner in the buffet, and then joined up with our usual trivia team for what as supposed to be a car logo trivia, but due to technical troubles (file corruption), we ended up doing a Superheros and Villians trivia, which we managed to win by a 2 point margin.  

We wound up our evening with the Princess Theater show by Jesse and Colleen Kazemek, who did a Beatles tribute show.  We had seen them doing another show on a prior cruise, and they do put on an entertaining show.  This one had several Beatles medleys and a Stump the Chump part where the audience called up Beatles songs and Jesse would then play and sing them on his guitar.  His wife Colleen came up and did a couple of songs with him.  They were backed by the Princess band and put on another good show.  What’s not to like about Beatles songs?

Our clocks go forward an hour tonight, and we have five days at sea ahead of us before we arrive in Ensenada Mexico.  There’s probably a lot of trivia in our near future.