Our last day in Hawaii! We considered trying to have an adventure on our last day, but we'd done everything we wanted to do already, and after our mega-relaxing resort stay we were feeling especially lazy. The one thing we were considering doing was a scenic drive called "Hana Highway," but it turned out that we wouldn't have had the time. We ended our resort stay with a delicious breakfast, quickly stuffed everything into our suitcase, and high-tailed it to the part of Maui where the airport was located.
Once we got there we stopped in at a grocery and bought nine pineapples for stuffing in our second suitcase we'd bought a couple days previous. We had investigated the rules on taking fruit out of Hawaii and while they have some fairly strict rules about most fruits, pineapples are too acidic to be a bug problem. Our suitcase might have been able to hold more than nine, but we knew we were cutting it pretty close to the max weight limit. We then went to a Starbucks to post blog and photos, as well as chop the leaves off the pineapples so they'd fit well in our suitcase. We spent some time at Starbucks catching up on Internet stuff, then went to an Italian place for a quick lunch.
Nothing left to do! So though we had hours left before our flight we headed to the airport early to get security out of the way. Security was an absolute breeze. We had to check our bags through agricultural checks, but because we had nothing but pineapples it was no problem. We found a couple of comfy chairs near an outlet in the vicinity of our gate and spent the next few hours watching shows on Netflix.
As the time came near to board the plane Elly and I tried to negotiate a seat change. We somehow wound up seated in the same aisle, but Elly was in the aisle seat to the right of the aisle and I was in the window to the left of the aisle. The people at the gate did their best but weren't able to Tetris us into seating together. After we boarded, though, I was able to trade my window seat for the aisle (thanks to a nice, friendly couple I was seated with) so Elly and I wound up seated together.
The plane took off at 11:05 PM, so Elly and I mostly just slept. It was crappy airplane sleep, but better than nothing. We touched down in Denver 8:45 AM. Safe and sound and home!
Photos
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