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Aloha, Penny's Second Vacation Is To Maui

Today marks the first day of Penny's second vacation, with her first being our Walt Disney World trip in Orlando, last October. I am so very excited to be able to share Maui with her as it is very special to her father and I. Yesterday, hubby met his mother halfway and dropped Moses. I took the opportunity to do some last minute shopping aka buy a dress for the wedding. Luckily, with very little time I found a beautiful dress at my favorite store, Anthropologie. A girl just can't go wrong in that store and I found a sunny, Hawaiian-ish dress that will hopefully, do the trick. I also bought Penny a little pail with shovels, some Mickey Mouse water toys, a little mermaid doll, and some silver croc shoes to wear with her pink Minnie Mouse satin dress. She probably will take them off and run barefoot knowing her so I am not sure if this is a good purchase. After the shopping was done I had the daunting task of doing laundry and figuring out what to take. I always want to take more than I need. Luckily, hubs came home from his mini doggie drop off trip to advise me to leave some it out. After what seemed like forever, our bags were packed and ready to go! We woke up at 5am this morning. Our goal, to leave the house and drive to Jung's. He only lives 5 minutes from the airport and he graciously agreed to let us park our car at his house and also to give us a ride to the airport. We arrived at the airport and using my Platinum card we easily checked in for our flight and made it through security fairly easy. Then all we had to do was wait. Luckily, a couple with two little girls Penny's age were waiting in the same area as us and the girls had fun playing with balls and screaming their lungs out. The fun was cut short when they had to board their plane. We boarded our plane and progressed to use all the snacks, band aids, coloring books, toys, and stuffed animals that we had crammed into two backpacks. The girl did not sleep at all on the 5 hour flight that is until we started circling the Maui airport and then she fell asleep. But her nap didn't last long as we deplaned we had to grab our luggage and car seat, hop a bus to the car rental place, and insert our car seat into the rented car.
Our first stop in Maui was to the Costco by the airport. We picked up a few thinks like milk (interestingly in Hawaii they sell it by the gallon and not by two gallons like in our store), we got water, sweet bread, bananas, and we found gift certificates to the restaurant I want to eat at for my birthday. Oh and there was a super large display of Hawaiian shirts. See below. I really didn't have to bring a lot of things I brought because Costco had it all there. I must say they are prepared for vacationers at that store!!

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