Windsurfing, a Luau, and the Black Smoke Monster!

Day 4 - Today was a GREAT day!  We started off early with getting Carleigh to her windsurfing lesson at Hi Tech Surf shop.  Barb is a big windsurfer and recommended the school that operates out of the surf shop to us and it was wonderful. Carleigh had a blast.

It was a 3 hour lesson and she was with 7 other "local" kids.  3 instructors, so she shared Neil with 2 other kids.  They started on land working on technique and within 15 minutes she was in the water and within an hour, she was sailing on her own.

Katie stayed back with Barb for a while, and then met us at the beach.  The beach was gorgeous and very calm, so Katie had fun playing in the water.

Then things changed and Don and I felt like we were on the set of  Lost!  Out of the trees appeared this:

The black smoke monster was coming for us!!  It turns out someone was burning sugar cane or something like that.   And it only lasted for about 20 minutes and the sky was clear again, but wow....for you Losties, doesn't it look like the evil, black smoke monster?  Pretty funny!!

After our morning at the beach, we stopped for lunch and came home to rest and get ready for the Luau.  Barb had done her research and found an authentic Luau at a place on the water in Lahaina.  It was not connected to a hotel, and was very classy and wonderful.  It was a five course meal with dancers and entertainment representing four different cultures - Hawaii, Tahiti,Samoa and New Zealand!  The food was out of this world, as was the entertainment.  And what was cool.....Barb and Edgar had never been there before either, so it was new for all of us!
 

 

 

After the meal and show was over, the dancers came out into the seating area and talked with the guests.  Our servers were wonderful also.  Here's a pic of the girls with our servers (on the ends) and some of the dancers:

It was about an hour drive home, and after the long day....both girls slept the whole way home, and almost had to carry them into bed.  Definitely a fun time was had by all!

Tomorrow we leave Maui and our "authentic Hawaii" adventure and fly to the big island to check into a mega resort - the Hilton Waikoloa Village, and as Don says begin our "artificial Hawaii" adventure.

We will spend three nights at the Hilton with snorkeling, zip lining and then travel to the other side and stay in a small B and B for two nights and explore Volcanoes National Park.  Then back to the Hilton for the fourth of July and head home on the 5th. 

Aloha!!