Hawaii-Sunday

Sunday we had to check out by 10am, but our plane didn't leave until 10 pm (8pm for Savannah) so we had the whole day to kill. We found an LDS ward in Kahului/Wailuku that started at 1:00, so we had a few hours to do something before we headed to church. Our airbnb room had a Fodor's guidebook to Maui that we had found useful while we were there and it proved useful once again as we found a park near Wailuku called Kepaniwai Park and Heritage Gardens. It had lots of pretty plants and different sections of the park were based on different heritages that had contributed to the Hawaiian islands.

 It also had the hugest trees ever. Those trees that send down roots from the branches, then grow more branches, then more roots, like we had seen when we were ziplining. Look how small we look next to it.

 Some of the roots that were hanging down that hadn't reached the ground yet made for some cool vine swinging.

 There was a bamboo forest of sorts that we walked through.

 There were buildings showing typical homes of various cultures that came to the islands including Chinese, Portuguese, New England, Philippines.

 It also had a traditional Hawaiian building.

 After church we found a beach to hang out on to eat our dinner we had packed that morning, and to wait until it was time to return the rental car and head to the airport. It was a beach near Paia and it turned out to be the apparent headquarters of the local hippie/homeless movement.

 But we enjoyed our last bit of time near the beach before we headed home.

It was so nice to have a chance to completely relax and spend time with my mom and Savannah on an island paradise. The flight home was fine except for our layover in LAX. If I never fly through that airport again I won't be too sad about it.