Happy Birthday Matt!!

Well we celebrated Matt's birthday in style today. Matt wanted to drive to Hana, so I took my motion sickness pill and went right along with him. It was a beautiful drive, much nicer this year than when we went last year. We stopped a lot more places this time as well. We found another stand for banana bread (the stand we went to the other day was much better in our opinion), we saw some waterfalls, multiple views of the ocean and beautiful coast, and lots of really coolvegetation. When we made it to Hana we stopped at a few of the local churches, one that was built in 1838, and the other was St. Marys which was a very cute little Catholic church.We also stopped at the Hasegawa General Store, which is a little store that has almost anything and everything you could think of.

Hardware tools right next to the produce, postcards next to batteries, shirts, cutting boards, ice cream, etc. It was really cool and now we can say that we've been there. We made our way back toward the center of the island, I getting pretty carsick, and tried to find somewhere to eat.

We were going to stop at Mama's Fish House, but didn't really feel like paying $40 a plate for lunch. So since we took the main road from Hana we ended up closer to Kehei than Pukalani, so we went to Kehei for lunch...BIG MISTAKE. There is no good place to eat there! It probably took us 45 minutes to find somewhere that was an actual restaurant to sit down and have a beer. Course then the place we finally found didn't even have anything on tap and then they were out of one of my favorite local Maui Brewing Co. brews, so it was almost a disaster. Luckily their BBQ Kalua pork sandwich was really good, so I left much more happy than when I arrived.

We came back to Doug and Nancy's, relaxed, made a birthday dinner of steaks with gorgonzola cheese, wine, and some Hand and Foot. Only a few more days to soak up the beach and some

rays.