Since leaving government service my weekly letters have been more like monthly letters.  This would imply that I had more time to write, as a government employee, than working for myself.  Well, I have been busy lately.  And now that I work from home and I share an office with Lisa, I have to look like I’m being productive and I am making a contribution to the family’s bottom line (LOL).

Let me begin this letter with highlights of our trip to Maui from last week. 

As like last year, Rich and Leslie Goddard invited us to join them for a week in Hawaii on the island of Maui.  We stayed on the top floor of Marriott’s Maui Ocean Club Resort, located in Ka’anapali, north of Lahaina. 

Rich likes to play golf as much as I do and we played at two different courses in Ka’anapali, and two courses in Kapalua on four different days.  One course we played, the Plantation Course, is where the first tournament of the year is played by the PGA.  It was a difficult course to play, although beautiful.  

While we played golf, Lisa and Leslie got massages, baked in the sun, and snorkeled in Napili Bay with turtles and tropical fish.

One cannot visit the west side of the island without having breakfast at the Gazebo Restaurant in Napili.  We waited in line an hour and twenty minutes for their famed Macadamia Nut pancakes. 

One morning we hiked the coastline along Napili and witnessed the natural beauty of the island.

Our more dressy dinner of the week was at Merriman’s Restaurant in Kapala. 

A short walk along the beach took us to the Hyatt Regency Resort where we took in a dinner and Lu’au called the Drums of the Pacific.  

While we waited for the Lu’au to begin, we sat next to a family from the Netherlands.  And how funny to find out their name was Cornelis (Cornelius without the “u”).

My Lack of Emotion Disorder did not hold up against the comedy and magic show provided by Warren Gibson, a hilarious sleight-of-hand magician.  How he was able to pull a bowling ball out of a hat, two bowling balls to be exact, was mind blowing.  If you ever go to Maui, you have got to see this show.

Our vacation was a very busy vacation, although a relaxing one.