Day 3

Oh--still not adjusted--all up at around 4am!  Left at around 6:40 for IOA national Park.

We went on a little hike.  I felt like we were in Jurassic Park!

Maui is home to all 7 climates.  Where we are staying, used to be a desert.  This part is rain forest.  Kids liked being in the "jungle."

Very big tree!!

So Pretty!!  Next he headed over to the Maui aquarium.  Lots and Lots of fish!!

My favorite thing was this octopus!!

touching star fish

green sea turtles

They had this amazing tank with sharks, sting rays and some really big fish.  It had a tunnel so the fish were below you, on top of you and either side of you.  Very cool!!

We got to see sharks feeding, which was so amazing!!!  Very cool!

Next, we ate lunch in the car and headed to Lahaina to see this huge tree.  This banyan tree (from India) was planted in 1873 and covers an entire city block.  Very cute town with lots of shopping and night life.  Great place to be if it was just me and Mike.  

so cool!!

Then we headed out for you guessed it, shaved ice!!!  All the shaved ice here seems to be about $5 each so we had a buy one get one free coupon, so boys got one and boys got one.  So yummy!

Very neat to see them actually shave the ice off of a block of ice!!

On a sugar high, we headed back to our, as Kate calls it "our pretend home."  I took some photos during our drive back.

We rested, kids watched movies & I blogged.  We had dinner & headed to the pool.  Kids jumping in together.