The beginning

So I am finally here...in the amazingly beautiful Maui! I landed yesterday at 12:50 and Jake was there to greet me with a lei. He brought me back to the apartment so we could drop my luggage off, did a bit of unpacking of my clothes, then we were off to Costco & K-Mart to buy a bunch of random crap that we needed. It is amazing how much money random crap adds up to!! I think I started falling asleep around 10:30 which to my body was 1:30.

I woke up this morning around 8am and kinda dinked around the house for a while then around 10 we headed to the DMV to register the Jeep and get Hawaii drivers licenses. We got the Jeep all registered but to get our drivers licenses, we’d have to do a written test. However, we couldn’t do it until after noon so we left and went to the store to get a drivers manual because apparently the DMV doesn't carry them. Then we studied the book over lunch at Cafe O Lei. My burger had sautéed onions on it like they have at Paseo...it was really good! After that we headed back to the DMV to take the tests. They did the vision test on me and it seems that I can't see very well from my left eye. I couldn't make out any of the letters. I didn't do well on the depth perception test either since my left eye sucks. I put on my glasses and was able to read all the letters so now I have been branded. I must wear them when I drive now. So we are officially Hawaii residents now.

Now that all the business was done we could get to the fun part of the day. It was about 1:00 when we finally got to go to the beach. We started at one of our favorites from our visit, Wailea. We hung out in the water for a while with our boogie boards but the waves weren't that great for boogie boarding. So we decided to head south and check out all the beaches that direction. There we some good ones and some that were just ok but we did, however, get to check out Little Beach which is known here for being a nude beach. I just find it very strange that people are ok with just walking around buck naked and not be self conscious about it. We didn't stay there long, just long enough to walk up the beach and back. We ended our day at the beach at Kama’ole III. That beach is the one that is a 5 minute walk from our place. We actually got a few good waves there.

Oh, while we were at Big Beach though we were walking along some rocks and looked down into the water and saw the biggest turtles I have ever seen. I didn't even know ones existed that big. They must have been at least 3 feet long but probably longer. We saw like 4 or 5 of them there too. It was such an awesome day today. There were many times during the day that I so wished that I had my camera with me because the views were just magnificent! I still can't believe that I live here. But my vacation is over until the weekend. I have to be at work tomorrow at 8am but I am kinda looking forward to it. It will be fun to meet new people and what better place in Maui to work than at a boat company. It is all just unreal to me.