We woke up this morning and began emptying our rental condo. That meant a very interesting breakfast of cheesecake, guacamole, cheese tortillas, ravioli, PB&J, candy, beer , matte  and fruit.. Not usual breakfast fare, but yummy.

We gathered all our stuff, emptied the fridge, took out the garbage and recyclables and started the wash.. I think we’re pretty model rental guests 🙂

We said goodbye to the condo then headed down the road to turn in our rental snorkel and beach stuff.. and grabbed a last Shave Ice at our favorite place

We had a few more stops before the airport.. Gabe and Sam had found a highly rated place that sold Poke out of the back of a Liquor store .. we had to try that..

we also bought some pineapple wine .. which was good.. but pretty acid. I’m about 2 weeks into no alcohol to see how that works   with my guts. (Its worked nicely) . .. but it felt good to have a slug of wine 🙂

We then headed to the Maui botanical garden.. a really low key place in wailuku.. used to be a zoo..  You could see Ida  mountain from there. it was great to walk around.. we were almost the only ones there.

On the way from there to the airport, I looked up one of my cousins.. Jake.. he and his wife have a Law firm in wailuku.. DIane and I knocked on the door .. and there he was..

We met him when he was one year old.. so this was new. We only stayed a few minutes.. but it was fun getting to know him. We exchanged contact info an promised to share some family history stuff.

 

From there it was only 15 min to the airport. We dropped Gabe and Sam off at the departures and said good bye. It has been so great being with them here..they are such great travel companions.  .. We’re seeing Gabe next week in Santa.. so it was a quick goodbye.

Diane and I dropped off the car and headed to our plane. Thanks to TSAPrev.. we got to our gate before Sam and Gabe got through security.. so we bought them a surprise pizza and dropped it off at their gate

 

We said goodbye again and headed to our gate.. The Kailua airport is a nice mix of indoor and outdoor.. so we sat outside and ate our pizza looking at Ioa.. A nice end to a great vacation..

Our flight left around 5.. and it was ‘only’ 8 hours to Chicago..

 

nite all, note sam

-me