Aloha,
It’s our second Monday on Maui this trip, and Cindy is getting ready for her spa day at the Westin. Normally, she likes to jump right to the spa in the first couple of days, but this year, her silly husband booked almost all of our activities the first week, so it was delayed just a little. She still enjoys it, though (and she certainly deserves it).
As for me, I’m just working on some of my homework for my digital photography class and trying to come up with a few more good poster-quality photos while we’re here this year.
Yesterday was a little slow, which most of this last week will be. The focus now is really on unwinding and relaxing before we have to head home to our stressful jobs. Speaking of stress, I must have spent 3 hours yesterday trying to save my whale watching videos in a file format that YouTube wouldn’t absolutely destroy the quality of. At this point, I haven’t had any success, but will keep trying.
We went to the new Outback Steakhouse last night across from the Lahaina Cannery Mall, which was somewhat of a taste we’re used to back home. They’ve only been open for 7 days, so the service still needs a little bit of work. It was quite a bit of food, though, so no one went home hungry.
Last night, the clouds did stay away long enough for Cindy and I to lug all my gear down to the beach. I tried taking a few photos of the the stars, but it wasn’t long before than giant full moon came in and had plans of it’s own. We were down their pretty early, too, relatively speaking. It was about 8pm, so the torches on Black Rock were still lit, and many of the rooms at the Sheraton still had their lights on, so it wasn’t the ideal conditions we had last September.
Either way, we just put the camera away and took out the binoculars instead. Using my handy little PDA and a very cool little piece of software called Pocket Stars, I spent the next hour playing tour guide and astronomy teacher with Cindy. It was a pretty entertaining and productive night for the most part as the clouds stayed over the mountains where they belong. We ended up finding both Saturn and Mars, saw Orion, Gemini, Leo and parts of Taurus, just to name a few. Gaging her interest and her willingness to listen to me ramble on and on, I think tomorrow’s Tour of the Stars at the Hyatt is going to be just as much fun for her as it will be for me. That is, if it doesn’t get canceled again.
Really not much else to report at the moment. Not as exciting to blog about, but still worth it’s wait in gold being out here and not having a care in the world.
Mahalo.
