December 28, 2010 - After getting up at 3:45 a.m. on Tuesday, December 28, arriving to Gerald Ford Airport in Grand Rapids by 5:00 a.m., flying to Chicago (spending 3 entertaining hours at O'Hare), flying to Los Angeles and boarding yet another plane...WE MADE IT!!!! We landed in Maui around 6:30 p.m. Hawaii time. We rented a couple of cars, a yellow VW Beetle and a Chevrolet Malibu, and had to figure out how to cram 8 people and all of their luggage into the tiny little spaces that these cars offered....boy do I wish I had taken pictures of this process! We made it work without anyone getting permanently injured (sorry, Chase) and arrived basically in one piece to our home for the next 10 days. We got all settled in and crashed out since most of us had been up for just about 24 hours! Who knew that sitting down travelling could wear you out so much!
December 29, 2010 - What a beautiful day! We spent most of the day just relaxing in the pool, walking on the beach and just hanging out. Chase, Anna and Dad went grocery shopping so we're all stocked up on some food, Dr. Pepper and Coca Cola!! The important stuff :) Some clouds rolled in early afternoon, so Chase, Anna, Blake and I drove into town to try to find some toy boats for the boys to race. We went to Wal-Mart and K-Mart, all the comforts of home! ;) No such luck finding some racing boats, and the sun was shining again, so we headed back home and chilled for a bit. We ate dinner by the pool and enjoyed watching the sun getting ready to set. After dinner, Chase got this great idea that he needed to body surf in the pool...that was pretty entertaing for a good 45 minutes! We spent the rest of the night hanging out in the hot tub watching the sun set and the stars come out. It was pretty good first day of vacation!!
