Stubbs Love: Maui we go!

The day after Christmas Evan and I had planned that we were going to head to another island in celebration of our One Year Anniversary which is actually today December 27th. We decided to go to Maui, which neither of us had ever explored before. Due to being in college and happily poor oh we only went for the day. Since we are both still under 25 we get charged an "under age" fee so that was our biggest expense. Our flight left at 5:17 am and landed in Maui at 5:36 am. We were up at 3:30 am getting ready and prying our eyes open. I quote Ev as he rolls over after the alarm goes off,"are you trying to torture me?" hehe granted yes it was a bit early, but we had the whole day ahead of us to play and once we got going we were good. We landed in Kahalui, got our rental car and headed for Wailku. Started our day the right way with some McDonalds, did not eat anything that would give us gas or over eat to cause us to be uncomfortable. We got our energy and arrived in Wailuku at the Maui tropical plantation. We had a reservation to go ziplining! We were both so stoked about our 5 hour zipline tour with Flyin Hawaiian, which made having to get up so early worth it. In total we ziplined over 4 miles and hiked a little over 1 mile along the way. We rode 6 different ziplines and the longest was 3600 feet and is about 60 seconds long going up to speeds of 50-60 mph. I was considered "Darcy the feather- weight" and sometimes I didnt make it all the way across sometimes just because the way the line was designed and the fact that I didnt get enough speed. I mostly rode in a cannon ball position pulling my legs to my chest to get more speed. We had such a blast!! The rush is amazing, I am glad that Ev and I didnt die =) After ziplining, we headed to the black sand beach in another city called Hana, which was a long drive away. The drive was long, beautiful and lush, very windy (thee words do NOT do the road to Hana any justice). The most popular signs we saw were ROAD NARROWS and YIELD TO ONCOMING TRAFFIC (one lane bridge). It was so odd to be driving on a two lane highway then suddenly it turned into one lane. Definitely had to be paying attention. We made it to the Wai'anapanapa State Park looked around enjoyed the beauty, ate some grub at the Hana Ranch Restaurant, and headed back before it got dark. We went shopping, laughed, got annoyed by tourists, and talked about the last year that we have had being married and what made it such an awesome year. We are great travelers together because if we want to see something then well stop, if not well look at it as we drive by and say,"oh thats nice". We aren't the type of travelers to stop at everything there is to see, just the stuff we take an interest in. It was such a good trip! Evan's two cents about the trip: "It was lots of fun. I really enjoyed myself. And my wife is a total babe." Noteworthy: Gas was $3.67/gal, Pretzelmaker has terrible pretzels (Wetzel's pretzels is so much better), when you have an odd amount of time left and cant drive anywhere except close by, Longs Drugs is a cool place to walk around. We decided to hit up Wendy's for din din because, well, we only have one on our island and its kinda far from where we live. It was yum! We decided we just needed one more day to make it to Lahaina, Kihei, and Haleakala. Our flight left at 10:45 pm and we arrived back on Oahu at 11:20 pm. Such a blast!

We arrived!