Feb.26,2015--Depression setting in!  Time to go home:

Our flight isn't until 11pm tonight, so I booked our resort room for tonight, too.  So here we are---5pm hanging out at the resort!  But we did get out for awhile.  Breakfast at the Cinnamon Bun place.  They, too, have great breakfasts sandwiches and rolls very reasonably. 

 Then we took one last ride south.  The site we check for surf and water clarity said poor visibility today.  After yesterday, I believed them.  So no snorkeling today, either.

 Love all the coconut and food trucks along the way.  Didn't stop this year.  2 years ago we got frozen chocolate covered bananas at one of them.

 You can get all kinds of stuff at them.  But they aren't cheap.

 Stopped at Big Beach for a couple pictures.

 The huge cactus plants are still down there.

 We stopped by the side of the road at a beach access walkway and I was surprised to find such a beautiful area.  Have no idea what it is, but it looks like snorkeling would be great here under the right conditions.  In fact, the water didn't look as churned up as I expected.  I really wanted to get out in the water somewhere, but Ken didn't.

 another view at the beach access.

 looking towards the mountain from the lava field road.

 the highway over the lava field.

 another beautiful view of the south shores.

 Leaving Wailea.

 Back at the resort, I made some fragrant whale soaps for friends and family back home.  Then hung out at the pool and resort. 

hopefully we'll see a beautiful sunset tonight.  Then be off to the airport tonight around 8:30.
I walked across the street from Worldmark to Kam 1 for my last sunset.  

 There was a little color in the sky, but not many clouds to hold it.  Still pretty, though.

 We made it to the airport plenty early, again.  They tried to charge us for our luggage.  I argued that AA told us they had an agreement with Alaska Airlines and even Alaska Airlines confirmed that over the phone earlier in the day.  Eventually they agreed to let us each have 1 bag free, so we took the 3rd one as carry on (ended up checking it in Seattle when they asked for volunteers to check their carry on).  Plan to call AA and ask about that agreement with Alaska Air one of these days.  The rest of the trip went pretty well.  The planes were all full.  We flew from OGG-PDX---a new itinerary for us.  Nice not having to hang out in the LAX or DFW airport for a change.  I rented their entertainment tablet for $10 and it was a nice feature that we don't have on AA.  Ended up watching Dolphin Tale 2 and Fury during our first flight.  Soon after that we were landing in Portland.  3 hours later we took a puddle jumper to Seattle where we waited another 1 1/2 hours for our flight to STL.  Got in to STL about 5:30pm and home about 6:30.
What was I saying earlier about dreading going back to where everything is brown?  I didn't consider this alternative!  I think I like it even less!