Life is a State of Mind

Wednesday morning we decided to head into Lahaina town for some breakfast and shopping. Stumbled into a store called Serendipity on Front Street and spent most of the day there as they had lovely, fashionable, affordable, sensible clothing in Erci‘s sizes, and the staff were entertaining and a joy to spend time with. Highly recommended for women’s fashion, more diverse than Sig Zane‘s Aloha wear (which is also very good, and we’d already hit the Sig Zane store in Wailuku on Tuesday).

We had lunch at Cheeseburger in Paradise, and several Mai-Tais (though Erci was disappointed they came with no umbrellas). Ernie, the bartender, was a one man comedy show, and the burgers were huge and delicious. I went looking for closed-heal snorkel/scuba fins; and found nothing worth getting, but enjoyed browsing the scuba shops all the same. We hit a grocer and picked up pineapple to replace the one that came with our condo and we already demolished.

Dinner was at Pineapple Grill, which is far-and-away the best meal we’ve had here so far. We lucked into half-price on bottles of wine Wednesday (which brings the wine into normal mainland markup range) and enjoyed lobster bisque, seared ono, duck spring rolls, Gazpacho, and Lemon Porcini Dusted Opakapaka.

Thursday we woke up and hit the beach for the first time, and the pool. Then we went to the Maui Ocean Center for lunch and a tour of marine aquariums and natural ocean history. We are looking forward to a luau at The Feast at Lele tonight.

Sorry we’ve posted no pictures yet, Erci’s new laptop does not have iPhoto loaded yet and we have not been able to dump the camera to the laptop yet. Searching for a CF card reader to make it easy.

We’ve started working on a comparison of things we like about Hawaii versus things we like about Caribbean islands…