I'm getting quite used to having a lay in 'til 10.
Isn't that what some holidays are about?!
Greg and Tiz are always up much earlier than me and I'm wondering what's wrong with them.
Given that none of us want to do much travelling over narrow, winding roads to get to anywhere it limits us to near bugger all of the island.
After a coffee and a banana smoothie we had a pow wow as to what and where we were going to do today.
Tiz offered that she had not seen anything that she would like to buy yet, so, if we could go to the advertised "outlets" she would be happy.
There is an "outlet" quite close to the apartment so we scheduled that as the first stop.
I also remembered that the Not Quite Nigella blog had had an article on Leoda's Kitchen & Pies so we should call in there for lunch on the way to the other "outlet" in Lahaina.
We left the apartment at a few minutes to midday and arrived at the first "outlet" a few minutes after midday.
OK, you may be wondering why I have been referring to the purported outlets as "outlet".
That would be because, at least on Maui, they are not a collection of many stores in one large undercover area selling their wares for considerable discount compared to the normal retail store.
In Maui it is one store that sells many brands, and trinkets, at near normal retail price, which here in Maui is generally much more than our home city.
We looked, we left disappointed.
Next stop was Leoda's Kitchen & Pies about 20 minutes down the road.
Lorraine Elliot had raved about all the food in this place so were really looking forward to it.
When you enter you walk straight up to the counter and make your choice from the blackboard behind the counter, which is the same as the laminated one on the tables, we discovered later.
Here is the laminated menu shown to you by our shy model Tiz
We ordered a pork hoagie, at rear, and a savoury mushroom pie, forefront.
Both struck me as smallish, especially with all the stories we'd heard about the over-the-top large portions.
I'm holding the condiments, which include Rooster brand sriracha, a very popular brand of hot sauce back home and in Vietnamese eateries in particular.
The pork hoagie was OK at best and mediocre at worst.
The savoury mushroom pie was deep fried and not very mushroom(ey).
It did have a mountain of cheese in it, however.
Because we all know that man, and woman, do not live by bread alone we bought some drinks -
a Natural Brew Outrageous Ginger Ale, which was very good
&
Rogue Hazelnut Brown Nectar Ale
with Natural Hazelnut Flavour,
which tasted like beer that had no hazelnut flavour
and that you would buy again
Coconut Creme Pie
Outstanding & the saving grace of the whole experience.
In the afternoon, after coming back,
Greg went to the supermarket and snapped a pic of this.
It's a Honda Ruckus.
A very popular little scooter in the USA which lends itself well to modifications, and a form of transport I quite like and wish we had in Australia
After we, Tiz alone if the truth be known, prepared dinner
we walked down to the beach to watch the sunset
A couple of blokes looking west, longing for distant and familiar shores
where a tip is considered a bribe, cars get driven on the left hand side of the road, the temperature is currently in single figures and is measured in centigrade, our politicians use taxpayer money to fly by helicopter completely unnecessarily, the advertised price of something is what you pay and does not need to be multiplied by 4.172%, as a tax, and then by 10 to 20% depending on how not poorly you were served.
Looking east from the same spot as the two pics above.
You can see the mountain tops poking out above the clouds.
A very strange sight.
This, truck with the tyres protruding past the extremities of the bodywork, came along whilst we were at the beach.
It is an example of a large Hawaiian, and perhaps US wide, trend that seems impractical and rather odd looking to me.
Here is the shade of the skin on the front of my body, today.
It seems even more red than yesterday.
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