One more Aloha Friday from Maui

It's the second Aloha Friday of our trip, and I thought I'd take a moment to wrap up the last few days here.

Wednesday
Wednesday became another walking day for us, this time bringing my camera along the entire beachwalk at Ka'anapali Beach. It was a little warmer and more sunnier than the last time we took the 1.5 mile walk, which made it a little more of a trek. However, since we knew were everything was this time, it didn't seem like we had been walking forever.

We stopped at Whalers Village for a small lunch because we had the Maui Princess Dinner Cruise later that evening. We at a Leilani's again, but this time we skipped on the Hula Pie. After a little bit more window shopping, we went back to our room and hung out before getting ready for the dinner cruise. Unfortunately, I misread the confirmation email on the dinner cruise and thought we had more time than we really did, but we still made it on time.

Pretty much everything with the dinner cruise was the same as we remembered it last year. This year, we weren't lucky enough to have our own table again (which we pretty much assumed), and it turned out very nice. We met an older couple that just got married the week before and were on their honeymoon, and we had some good conversations.

As with previous nights, we opted for desert at Whalers and walked back along the beach under the stars and clouds. We didn't actually too far because some of the wind gusts were blowing sand so hard that it stung at the back of our legs as we walked. Luckily, it wasn't blowing from behind and not in our faces.

Thursday
Our anniversary, four years, was on Thursday, and it got off to a slow start. We slept in and didn't do breakfast as we had been the rest of the trip. We somewhat went off on our own for the day, and Cindy spent a few more hours by the pool while I took some more photos, worked on the website and did some last minute anniversary shopping at Maui Divers.

It might have sounded a little odd to be spending time doing our own things on our anniversary, but it was okay because we had reservations for Dinner Under the Stars at the Sheraton that night, which was absolutely perfect. It was a five course meal in our own private cabana right along side the beach, and it made for a wonderful and memorable night. Even though we're not planning to come back for our anniversary next year (opting to come back in July instead), we definitely want to do another dinner like that again.

I could go on and on about dinner and the rest of the night, but I'll leave it at that.

Friday is out last full day on Maui, and we're taking the red-eye back to Chicago on Saturday. We're enjoying every last minute we have on this trip, and already talking about our next two trips.

Aloha.