Wowee Maui!! what a trip! I have so many photos to share so might as well get started… A trip to Hawaii list has been on my list for a long time and I was so happy we were finally making it happen! We had a fantastic itinerary – fly into Honolulu to stay 3 days at the Ritz Carlton Turtle Bay with surfing, golf, sun and fun. Then we were to fly to Maui for 4 more days of heaven at the Four Seasons with a boat ride and more surfing and golf. Then an enormous Kona storm hit Hawaii with more rain than the islands have seen in decades. Not good. We were venturing on though…and then we got a call Friday night as we were driving to Atlanta that the road to our hotel in Ohahu was flooded with no access to the property. They were putting all guests up in the Sheraton nearby. No thank you. I quickly got on Delta and saw that there was a flight to Maui that also left on Saturday a few hours after our booked Honolulu flight. Our travel agent called the Four Seasons and got us rooms for the first half of the week and we changed our whole trip! Disappointing? A little. But I honestly think it worked out for the best and maybe ended up being an even better trip because of the change!
We spent the night in the airport hotel and then because our flight was later in the day, we didn’t have to get to the airport at the crack of dawn to catch our flight and deal with the hours long TSA lines. We still arrived plenty early but had no issues getting through security in the international terminal. The trip was also looking up that morning when I got a notice that all 6 of us had been upgraded to Delta One! Woohoo! That also meant we could spend those hours in the airport hanging out in the Delta Sky Lounge. Not too shabby! I didn’t tell the kids we got upgraded until we got on the plane and they were pretty excited…as was I!
Samantha even took a little trip to the cockpit!
About 10 hours later we arrived at the Four Seasons!
We got some food in the lobby restaurant but we were all pretty tired. I was also a little cranky when I got to our room and saw this as our “mountain view”. Hmmm…not what I was expecting.
I politely asked the desk if there were any other rooms available and they worked their magic and promised to move us both into much better rooms the next day! hooray! Sunday started off pretty great when Robert and Maxwell went to the gym at 6am (thanks jetlag) and found Jason Kelce working out in there too! Whoa! He and his whole family were at the resort all week. Maxwell even got up the nerve to ask for a pic!
We then hit up our first of many delightful breakfast buffets! I thoroughly enjoyed the french press coffee each morning!
It was a drizzly, rainy day so the kids checked out the makeshift game room…
The sky cleared just a little and we explored the resort and the beach!
We then got to move into our new rooms and the view was MUCH better!
We then went over to the Shops of Wailea for a little retail therapy before getting lunch at the Lahaina Brewing Company…
That afternoon the kids braved the weather for the pool and football…
That night we watched the sunset…
I spy a mama Kelce!
and met Scott the sunset photographer who has family in Mountain Brook! Small world!
then had dinner at Duo…where some of us did a better job keeping our eyes open than others! ha! A very fun and very full first day!
