We woke up pretty late on our last day. This was a bad sign for getting back to our routine back home as it meant we were now used to our new time zone. Callie and Kerry went down to the beach and when they got back we stopped by the Dukes to say goodbye. They had arrived earlier then us and were leaving a day earlier as well. Afterwards we went back to our room and got ready for our big drive. Most destinations are pretty close in Maui however today we were going to try the road to Hana. Hana is on the other side of the island and gets a lot more rain so it's much lusher.
I should probably say that our destination wasn't exactly Hana. Hana is about a 3 hour trip one way on a narrow highway with 60+ one way bridges. Our goal was actually Halfway to Hanna which is an actual destination. We downloaded an app to Kerry's phone that tracked our progress and gave us interesting bits of trivia as we drove. As we got going we saw just how narrow the road was. Many of the bridges had blind spots and you had to be quite aggressive or you would get caught waiting for ever. Our first destination was the 'Garden of Eden'. A very naturally looking tropical garden with lot's of animals.
We got to see waterfalls, bananas, many birds, a banyan tree, a koa tree and lot's of flowers. Carter's favorite part was meeting his friend duck. Duck was at the ice cream place and made panting sounds like a dog and even wagged his tail. He seemed to really like Carter though it was probably like the dogs at home. They knew he was the weakest link for stealing food. Once we had wandered around the gardens a bit and took in the view, we decided we had seen enough of the road to Hanna and turned back. I think we officially made it to half way to 'Half Way to Hanna'.
We got back after lunch and Kerry went to see her old principle John. His wife had won a trip through work and he was staying not far from us. We decided Kerry would just go but in hindsight we realized we all should have gone since the kids could have hung out around the resorts pool which was apparently quite amazing. John did come back to our place for drinks.
We finished off the evening with our last steak dinner and one final sunset. Another great trip.
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