Aloha friends!

Before you start reading, click this link and make it a tab and listen to it while you read. I'm blogging to it:  Mood Setter. BOOM.

Im going to try not to write a lot and just post loads of pictures with little blurbs. So this morning we went PADDLE BOARDING! Basically you stand up on a surfboard looking thing (called a paddleboard lol) with a paddle and go places. It was my first time so we went maybe a mile, potentially two. Normally they go about 5-8 so they were just getting me acclimated. Tomorrow we are going again, so maybe I'll get up to 3-4 miles! 

Sidenote: I was way excited when I fell in (which is not good lol) because it was my first time FALLING into the Pacific. Sue me, I'm corny. Deal with it. I'm loving my life right now.

 

We went to Lipoa Road in Kihei. 
Sylvia (my boss) is on the left, Corine is on the far right, and right next to me is Sylvia's friend Cassandra.

Me and Kathy! She's the groundskeeper/gardener/lilikoi & mango juice maker :) Awesome, awesome, awesome character.

Terrible form, but hey...it's new for me.

From Maui you can see a few of the islands. From where we were paddleboarding we were able to see Lanai, Molokini, as well as a lot of Maui.

Corine and I

One of my friends told me that Maui has almost EVERY ecosystem in the world. Mountains, Volcano, Desert, Jungle, Agricultural, etc. I am determined to see them all. So incredible to think that a small little island has everything. Anyways, here's a little bit of what I was able to snap while on my way to Kihei...

 Desert in Kihei!

 Most of Kihei is desert. There are irrigation systems under the ground that account for the little sprouts of green that show up, but naturally it would all be desert. They only get about 3-5 inches of rain a year! Apparently there are other parts of Maui that have cactus and such as well.

 Corine driving. Hey girl, HAY.

These are the West Maui Mountains...they're beautiful.


Haleakala is the volcano on the island. I seriously thought it was the mountain the whole time and kept asking "Where is the volcano? I must see it". SERIOUSLY, what a fail. Its literally on my left everyday. Maybe tomorrow I'll manage to snap a picture. I'm seriously ridiculous.

Does this view get old? Mountains in the back. Ho'okipa Beach on the right.

This is the drive from our house... There's something so pure about everything here. Its just SO beautiful. I can't figure out any other way to say it.


Also, just a HUGE shoutout to all of my friends keeping in touch with me! And thank you Jared for the Hawaiian reggae- I love it.

I can really understand now how people just come to visit and stay forever on this island or fall in love and never return ::hi Jordan::.  EB, if it so happens that I go "From the first few days of unfamiliarity to the hubby and 4 kids living on the side of a volcano in 2033", I hope you make a multi-million dollar movie out of it and give me at least 5% royalties. THANKS.
Hopefully you'll all see me in December!

With warmest aloha,
MJ