2 WEEKS IN HAWAII - February 2009

Left to Right: Eric and wife Babs, Paula, Me, Sterling, Sharon (Eric/Babs' daughter) and Gary, her hubby.
We spent two lovely weeks in Hawaii with these four English friends ... Babs' father and my father were best friends in Blackpool so she's known us (Paula and I) since we were born ... the first week we were on Maui near Lahaina, then the second on the big island, in Kona. This photo was taken in Lahaina town-center where the 'parrot man' had set up shop with his very well-trained birds.
Unfortunately, when I replaced my SD card in my camera, I put the full-one in the camera case without benefit of protection and when we came through the airport checkpoints, my disk was wiped of all 588 photos .. about 120 of which were from Maui. A lesson learned!!

Of course we went to 'the best luau on Maui' .. we were given drinks of our choice while waiting in line, Charlie (in the picture) gave us our leis (along with kiss on the cheek) then he and another young man escorted us to our table. The entire luau was so well organized we really enjoyed it.
We visited the Hilton on the big island for our last dinner in Hawaii ... it is such a huge complex, they have trains and boats to take their patrons to the various buildings. This is our four ladies on one of the boats, (L to R) Babs, Paula, Sharon and me.
While we toured around Maui, we found another 'parrot man' only this one had more parrots and he took the photos with our own cameras ... he put all his parrots on me (hurry up before they poop!!) and this is the result ... plus some small piercings in my scalp!! lol