Hawaii Day One

I'm going to attempt telling about our trip to Hawaii - mostly for my benefit, since I tend to forget what we did when and this way I'll have a record of it. It may take a awhile to get it all down. . . .

We left Oregon on a cold day in December, the 13th to be exact. We had a direct flight to Maui from Portland. The flight was full but the free mai tais near arrival were nice. We picked up our rental car, which was "upgraded" to a Dodge Charger (we would have preferred the downgrade) and headed a few blocks to Costco, where we loaded up with groceries. Then we drove on down to Kihei to our condo at Kamaole Sands. The grounds were beautiful and our condo was nice. The beach was across the street so as soon as we were unpacked and ate our pizza from Costco, we headed to the beach. The water was warm! We walked around on some rocks nearby and spied our first turtle. He was huge! We explored some more and then made a run to a nearby grocery store for the rest of our supplies and then we were readyfor bed!