Saturday March 11, 2006
One Month anniversary of Being Home-
Final Maui Post

Well, just read my blog in its entirety to revisit my blissful time in Maui. Sigh, well it's been long enough to readjust and reflect on the best and worst of my trip. My hundred plus photos are up on flickr.com! You thought the torture of looking at other people's travel photos went the way of slides. Oh, no. Now we bring it on into your own livingroom. And guilt trip you with emails that there are new photos for you to painfully plod your way through.






If you are interested in checking out my pics, despite the pain, make yourself a nice cuppa (Kona would be appropriate, but whatever you have is fine) and click on this link: http://flickr.com/photos/bizzylizzy/ and then click on the photo set that says Maui February 2006. If you want to see it as a slideshow there is a link in the upper right hand corner to do so (that's what I recommend).












The Best Things I Brought To Maui:
Myself.
Lonely Planet Maui as usual. Thank you guys for always knowing exactly what I need to know before I know it or know that I need to know it. Hidden Maui could have saved me my 15 bucks.




The Best Thing I Bought in preparation Before My Trip:
My A3H Card-For $30 you get 20-30% off at activities/restaurants. I got a deep discount on my kiteboarding lesson and whale watching tour. It also allows you to get "owner's tickets" for 1/2 off the regular price of activities (I got half off my kayak and bike trips. These are posted the first day of the month so that's the best time to check the website: www.halfofftickets.hawaiifun.org.

The Worst Thing I Bought in preparation Before My Trip:
The underwater 35mm camera. It took ok pictures but you really were shooting in the dark, because you couldn't tell where the camera was aimed with snorkel goggles on. Even though it is pricey I wish I had bought a underwater case for my digital camera. Cool idea, eh?




The Best Thing I Brought Back from Maui:
All my photos!
And my beautiful handmade jewelry from Maui Hands by Danny Bushart.














The Worst Thing I Brought Back from Maui:
Myself. I should never have brought me back here! Such a sourpuss about not being in Maui anymore. Jeesh! If you like it so much there, why didn't you just stay. ;^)






The Best Thing to Keep My Maui Memories Fresh:
All my photos again!
And Hotel Honolulu by Paul Theroux















The Thing I look forward to the most that reminds me of Maui:
Learning how to really kiteboard. And now I can say, when I am winning big air competitions, that I had my start in Maui. (Hey, it could happen! Do I hear anybody willing to sponsor a rising star?)












See below for more of my 35mm photos. I was so hopeful that the whale photos would be amazing. As you can see though, there were a lot of "splash" photos. Like, "Look! A Whale!" And my camera capturing the magic moment of the "splash". I also thought that I would get much closer shots, but my lens must have been deceiving. I had more confidence in my 35mm than I should have. Oh, well. I have a million great memories and almost as many great photos. Thanks you guys for being such great sports and letting me share them with you. Aloha in our hearts!