Vacation Time! Maui, Hawaii

As soon as Tripp moved back home, we immediately made plans for a trip for the 2 of us to Mexico. Well, Mexico fell through given the Zika virus taking over the carribean. I'm not pregnant, but it was too risky and just not worth it. So - 3 weeks before we were planning to leave for Mexico... we changed our flights and booked a trip to Maui (no Zika virus there!).

We typically travel in the fall around Labor day, but decided we wanted to take a vacation early in the year. We left on Saturday, Feb 26th and planned to stay through Tripp's 30th birthday... coming home Friday night on March 4th.

We LOVED traveling this at this time and think we may prefer it moving forward! I got a spray tan at Premiere Dermatology on Friday afternoon - my official start of vacation :)

We left early in the am and took the direct from XNA to SFO on United (we had never taken the direct since it started after Tripp moved home). It was about 4 hours. We had a short layover in SFO and then headed to Maui! 

Leaving the CA coast.

It was a 5.5 hour flight... it was long, but not horrible. We watched movies, read books and I took a nap. First look at the HI islands!

We stayed at the Fairmont Kea Lani in Maui. They had a taxi waiting for us when we landed - it took almost an hour to get our bags and then we were off!

We got to the hotel around 4:30, I got a lei and Tripp got a necklace... and we headed to the water to watch the sunset. It was beautiful, perfect weather. We found a bench with an awesome view and sat and talked about how we couldn't believe we were here.

Sun is setting...

Down by the water on the tan sand of Maui!

 
The view walking back up to the hotel looking at the water.

We had a drink + appetizers at the hotel bar and grille... and headed back to the room for bed. Hawaii is 4 hours behind AR time, so we were tired but so glad to be there!