The Final Hours - Leaving Maui

That's about what it's come down to, sitting here in the airport gate waiting for our flight to board. To add insult to injury, the plane that we will be leaving on just landed and everyone aboard just stepped foot on Maui soil for the beginning of their trip. They just probably put up a screen so people like us that are leaving can suffer in peace. :)

If it sounds like I'm being over dramatic, I probably am. You'd think after 3 trips to the Valley Isle, leaving would get at least a little easier. You'd think, or maybe it's just us.

Anyway, I have a few post-vacation tasks that I'm hoping to finish up this weekend once we're back home, including putting together a post with our Top 10 favorite moments of this trip and collating everything from our Maui Twitter into the Our Trips section. I'm hoping (at some point) to add various photos and links to the Twitter log archive do add more of a moment-to-moment feel to things. That's the plan, anyway.

This being our third trip, it's tempting to try and compare this one to the others and rate them as which was the best. That's really hard to do, though, since there are good memories from each and there hasn't been any (heaven forbid) catastrophic mishaps with any of them to isolate them as being awful. I think along with the Top 10 list from this trip, I might also work on a Top 10 all time, too.

If I haven't mentioned it yet, this trip was absolutely wonderful and we're leaving with so many more memories and experiences under our belts. By this point, we've set the bar pretty high for our next trip in February, but I don't think it will be very hard.

Aloha Maui, and Mahalo to those of you that have been following along with us on our trip.