January 5, 2006
Maria had gotten up at 4am and walked over to what she thought was our room, knocked on the door and man came to the door. She was at the room before ours! oops. She and Kathy were going to watch the sunrise, but sunrise was not until almost 8am. We all got up early, dressed, gathered our travel gear and went to breakfast. It came with the room and was a buffet of omlets, eggs, waffles, bacon, sausage and pastries along with a table full of fruits. We each filled our plates and relaxed in the patio seating area enjoying the view and the food. A shuttle came and took us to the Dollar car rental where we picked up our jeep, a white wrangler. We piled in, Kathy at the wheel, and took off for the Maui experience of a lifetime. Four sisters deciding which way to go, where is the road map, everyone giving direction and then we settled in. We found our way to Haleakala, traving in the narrow road wiggling and waggling up to the summit at 1023 feet aove sea level. Getting in and out of a jeep ...