Maui Zaui!!!

This October, Janet and I had the wonderful opportunity to visit Maui for our 20th anniversary. I was planning to take Janet to the Islands for our 20th, which is actually next July, but Janet’s Mom and husband, Dan Petersen, happen to have a timeshare that they were not using this year and offered it to us, since Janet and I have been married the longest of Janet’s siblings. So we went a year early.

We had a great time! It was the first time since having children, 15 years ago, that we have been away on a vacation for a week without the kids. We have been away at camp for a week, but that was not vacation and it certainly wasn’t Maui!

Wow did we have fun! Relaxing, reading, dining out, swimming, snorkeling, driving, shopping and just hanging out with no particular place to go. I knew it would be good to get away, but I didn’t realize how good it was for our marriage. We just needed the chance to spend some quality time together, away from all the day-to-day routine of life, and Maui was definitely the place. If you haven’t rekindled your marriage in a while, do it!!!

We stayed in Kaanapali at a beautiful resort right on the beach, and visited several hot spots including: driving to Hana, Whalers Village, the Banyan Tree and Front Street, and touring the west side.

We visited Oahu for one day, and actually spoke to the pastor of a church about doing a camp, and then we visited the WWII sites at Pearl Harbor. We visited the USS Arizona memorial and toured the USS Missouri Battleship before catching a sunset and dinner on the Waikiki beach.