Dave and I did not get enough time off work to travel home for Thanksgiving. We decided to travel instead to one of the other islands. He booked us a room at the Westin in Maui. We arrived late Wednesday night. On Thanksgiving morning we had a nice breakfast at the resort. Dave had scheduled us a surfing lesson. 

Neither one of us has ever been surfing before. We were both ready to get out there. I know I was excited. Here's a few pictures from our surfing lesson.

Here we are getting some land instructions before getting in the water.

Dave catching a wave

I think this was after one of my many wipe outs.

He's trying...

Almost there...

Looking good Dave!

I got really good at the paddling part. 

Here's a few waves I was able to catch.

Look at that form... Casey my instructor was proud.  

Here I am trying to turn on the wave...I soon fell. 

After I caught my wave, it was official. I could now give the Shaka. 

Casey (our instructor), me, the surfboard, and Dave 

We will definitely try this again. Surfing was hard but fun. After the lesson was over Dave and I had a massage at the spa. Later that night we had our Thanksgiving dinner that the resort. The food was awesome. I missed my family but man we had a great Thanksgiving in Maui.

On Friday we went on a snorkeling trip. We were sitting on the boat wait for it to take off, and there stood a naked lady on the second story building. No lie...she was at least 75 and was just standing there naked as a jaybird. She then proceeded to sweep in front of the window. We asked the people who owned the boat if this was an everyday thing or were we just that lucky. They told us that she does it all the time. LOL...That was a weird start to our day. Here are some pictures from our snorkeling trip...no pictures were taken of the lady. 

On our way to do some snorkeling

You got to try and get that under water picture. 

So many fish.

Our boat had a slide off the back. You know us young ones had to give it a go. 

Eric and Dave in the water after coming off the slide. 

Eric, Leslie, me, and Dave on our way back from a fun day of snorkeling.

Maui was awesome. Dave and I missed our families, but we made the best of a bad situation. We will definitely come back to Maui for another visit.