It took me a week but I finally got all of the tin foil out of my cubicle. I have left a couple of pieces still covered as a reminder.
As we were taking down the tin foil, we decided to create a ball. It took all week and there were lots of helpers (thanks Dave, Marcel and Mike) who crushed the ball down to size.
We had the official weigh in for the tin foil ball - 6lbs 15 ozs.
My question to you .. is what should we do with the ball?
I came back to work after my holidays to find that my co-workers decided to tin foil my entire cubicle. It was an amazing site.
We are now in the process of taking down the tin foil and seeing how big of a ball of tin foil we can make. Stay tuned.
I’m very sad today. It’s our last day here. Since our flight is at midnight, we’ve got the whole day here.
We started the morning back in Lahaina to watch the Na Kamehameha Pa’u Parade. The parade features pa’u princesses on horseback along the Royal Court of Maui. Each of the islands were represented. It was a very colourful and down home parade.
Afterwards, we headed over to the Banyan Tree Park to watch the ho’olaule’a ceremony. The king is presented with gifts. It was a very moving experience.
We had lunch at Cheeseburger In Paradise, picked up a box of pineapples and made our way back to the condo. We had enough time for a quick swim before heading back to Lahaina for our sunset cruise.
We sailed with Captain Gene and First Mate Don on the Scotch Mist II. When the sail was unveiled, I noticed that it was a picture of a whale done by Wyland. Karen is a huge Wyland fan. Captain Gene told us that he is very good friends with Wyland and that he sails with him alot in the winter. How cool was that.
We sailed around for a couple of hours enjoying champagne, chocolates and great conversations with the people on the boat.
We picked up takeout from Penne Pasta (which was awesome) and enjoyed our last dinner in Maui at the condo.
The worst part of the trip is always packing up. We somehow managed to get all of our stuff into our suitcases and made our way to the airport.
Since we didn’t get back to the condo until 1am, we decided to sleep in and enjoy a morning of lounging around the pool and lunch on the lanai.
We wanted to do some shopping so we dropped into Costco and Kmart. We then made our way to Kaanapali to check out the shops at Whalers Village. The mall is right on the ocean and were were able to just make it for the sunset. This was actually our first sunset during this trip. After the sunset, we walked around the shops and spent a bit of money.
We then headed to Lahaina for dinner. We dined at Mala which was right on the ocean. It was really nice hearing the waves while enjoying our dinner.
On one of our earlier trips into Lahaina, we saw that Tony Curtis would be having an exhibition of his art. Since we were on a roll of meeting famous people, we thought we would give it a try. We walked into the gallery and he was just sitting there. I gave Karen my camera and as I approached Mr. Curtis, he kissed my hand. He was oh so charming. He called Karen “darling” and me “beautiful”.
After getting star struck, we strolled along the main street and checked out the funky shops and art galleries. Lahaina reminds me alot of Key West.
While driving back to the condo, we pulled over at a scenic lookout to check out the stars. The skies are so clear here.
After getting up at 3am yesterday, sleeping in was in order. We spent the morning lounging around the pool, going for a quick swim in the ocean and enjoying leftover pizza for lunch on the lanai.
We wanted to do some shopping so we went to Queen Ka’ahumanu Center. I love the shopping malls in Hawaii … most of them are open air. Afterwards, we consulted Karen’s friend Helayne’s restaurant recommendations (we like to call it the H List) and decided to pick up take out from Wei Wei BBQ Noodles. This was really good food. Helayne … next time can you tell us what to order.
The Maui Film Festival was in town so we decided to catch a movie. The really cool part is that some of the movies are screened on the Wailea Gold & Emerald golf course. They call it the Celestial Cinema. It was so awesome. We brought beach chairs and bought some popcorn and drinks and settled in to an evening of entertainment. We got to see a short film called “Wait”, “The Lake House” (Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock) and “Water” (Indian film with English subtitles). We even saw a few shooting stars. You can not believe how many stars were out tonight.
