Hawaii – Day 4

Since we had the whole family together on Sunday we drove out to Lahaina for some more beach time.  I drove one car with Alex and Kuniko, and it was fun to spend time talking with Alex about this and that.  She is a bright kid and she could keep up a conversation well.  At Lahaina we went right out to the beach.  The beach here was especially nice, and a little crowded, but we found a good spot and we all went out swimming.  Alex even climbed up “Black Rock”, a dark set of rocks out on the ocean where brave souls could jump into the deep water.  Alex jumped it easily, but everyone else skipped it.  It looked a little scary to me.

We swam for about an hour or so, and then headed back to our cars, and onwards to the Maui Brewing Company beer pub for lunch.  There we could eat some Hawaiian pub grub and try the local beers.  All the beers I had from Maui Brewing were good – but with so many on tap it would take a long time to try them all. Once our bellies were full of food we drove off to town to walk around a bit and to get some shave ice from Alex’s favorite shop.  The workers in the shop seemed to know her by sight, so she must be a regular customer.  I love shave ice, and this place offered to add three flavors to your cup.  The texture was really unique – much finer than the kakigori that we find here in Japan.

After all of that, we drove back home, and Susan put together some fajitas for dinner.  Kuniko and I were thrilled to get some Mexican food on this trip – it is pretty rare to get it outside of our home in Japan.  To top it all off, Kuniko poured some sake for Dave and Susan, and we enjoyed some of the local sake that we had brought to Hawaii.


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