greetings from Los Angeles, Honolulu, Maui, and finally Kihei!

Hooray for us! We finally made it o Maui!!!! Our trip started well. We got on the flight to Los Angeles no problem. Then the flights to Maui were booked solid, and since we are flying standby, that means no go. Actually, I could have gotten on the plane, but then Cheryl would have been stranded. So we stayed in some dive of a hotel that night in the middle of what appeared to be Mexico. The next flight to hawaii was to Honolulu the next morning, so we changed our plans to try and get that flight, but that meant if we got on that one, we would have to fly from Honolulu to Maui, since we had already booked a condo there. So we got to the airport, and the flights did not look good, but then at the last minute, they called our names and we were on! yeah. So then Amy being the nice sister that she is, arranged our flights to Maui for us, since Delta doesn't fly between islands, we flew on Aloha air. It was a whopping $19 each for the flight that lasted about 20 minutes! So far so good. Now all we had to do was go find our luggage that arrived in Maui the night before. We got to the Delta baggage claim, to find that no one was there, and no one would be there either for 3 hours! We could see our bags in the cage locked up, but they couldn't open it for us without delta approving it. Finally we were able to convince one of the baggage workers for the airport to open it up for us since we were flying on buddy passes and couldn't claim anything stolen, or something like that.

Onto the rental car. This process took much longer than it needed to. We got to the place only to find a huge line. Arggh! We waited in line for what seemed to be forever. We got to the counter, and the girl asked us if we would like to upgrade to a minivan at no cost. Of course we said no thanks. It turns out they were out of compact cars. Did you ever see that Seinfeld where they went to go get their car, that they reserved, and it wasn't there? Yeah me too. So long story short, we talked her into a Jeep Wrangler at no extra cost. Sweet! The rest is history. We drove to the Condo, immediately changed and went to the beach! Now it is off to the store to buy food!

Keep checking back for updates and pictures as the week progresses.