Food

Ko

@ Kea Lani

No food pictures from Spago,

but here's some silverware.
You've seen the pig,
and the $14 drink.
Mike had the $9 hot dog
while I ate the $21 sandwich.


The chips were spectacular.

Hawaii from the air

Yes, Hawaii, not just Maui. Our return flight took us through Honolulu, so some pictures are from there.

Lots of water

Lots of clouds

Another jet was flying THIS CLOSE to us,but we passed it.The first glimpses of the Maui coastline. Molokini Crater

Barges off Oahu
A really pretty reef

Fairmont Kea Lani

in pictures...

early morning

Mike liked that the buildings were shaped like breasts.

It's not that I'm my husband's personal photographer, it's that I bought a small camera to fit in my purse and I take pictures of EVERYTHING!!

Luau

The company treated us to a private luau. It was just for our group of about 30.
They set us up on the lawn down near the beach, served us great food including a suckling pig. The night's entertainment was a Samoan Fire Dancer.The sunset was beautiful.

Incomprehensible

Life is going to hell in a hand basket.

How does this happen?

My Biggest Maui Disappointment

Bubba Gump.

Everything I'd heard about eating at Bubba Gump was positive. I love the movie, which I was told would be playing on a continuous loop throughout the restaurant, including at my table. It wasn't. There were two TVs in the bar. One was playing college baseball, the other was playing college softball.Our party of two was seated at a table for 8, so if we wanted to "Stop Forrest Stop" it would have been a lot of trouble reaching the sign. The food was mediocre accented by the fact that Mike doesn't really like shrimp.

I finally found Forrest Gump playing on a tiny TV in the waiting area on mute with subtitles.

Moral of the story: Don't rent a car, drive 40 miles, and pay $4.40 for gas on Maui just to eat at this restaurant!! Across the street was Longhi's where we'd eaten before and it was packed. Bubba Gump was mostly empty. Guess I should have taken that as a sign. Oh, well, lesson learned.

The one thing Bubba Gump had going for it was the view.