Day 3

So here we were Friday morning and our time at the Westin Resort has drawn to an end.  Still up incredibly early so did my blog entry for the previous day then wandered down to Starbucks for a coffee and croissant and read the paper. By the time I got back to the room Kelly was awake and we started packing.  Still had about 4 hours until check-out so we walked over to Whalers Village and had breakfast at Maui Fish and Pasta.  Very nice and we could see lots of whale activity on the water.  After breakfast we did some shopping. We were both in desperate need of new footwear as we were both wearing last summers sandals and they were pretty much toast.  We looked in Crocs but decided we'd be better off checking out their outlet store in Lahaina. Made our way back to the Westin where I got some final pictures of the beautiful property...

Completed our packing and checked out.  We had 4 hours until we could check Iinto our condo at The Kuleana in Kahana so the plan was to do some shopping in Lahaina and then go to Kahului to arrange golf club rentals and go to Costco.  We went to the outlet mall in Lahaina where we got some tshirts for the boys at Hilo Hatties and new sandals at Crocs. The Crocs outlet store had great selection and prices.  We then got on the road to head for Kahului....started out as a pleasant drive but once we hit Olawalu we never went over 20mph again...traffic crawled all the way to the Kihei turn off.  We hadn't meant to take that turn off as we meant to go to Kahului but nevertheless found ouselves on S. Kihei road. We got ouselves back on course and finally found the club rental shop where we chose our clubs for pickup Monday evening.  Then we went to Costco...in and out quickly and back on the road.  Traffic was much quicker for us heading north but by this time the southbound traffic was backed up from Lahaina to Maalaea....at a complete dead stop in some places.  It reminds me of the traffic backups in the summer in Kelowna before the new bridge wad built.  Seeing that traffic was enough for us to make the decision to rent clubs at the golf course and not bother with going back Monday evening.  At least our tee time at Elleair is at 7 am and we'll be through before the heavy traffic. If we want to see south Maui we'll do it that afternoon. Anyway we found the Kuleana and brought our luggage in then went to Times market in Honokawai for few more things...had a light dinner of cheese, crackers, Costco chicken and poke and collapsed...tomorrow is a morning whale watch on the Scotch Mist...