13. Another Day in Paradise!

Tuesday, we awoke to another phone call from the Browns, indicating that Mary Etta was even more uncomfortable than the previous day. They had located a Doctors On Call location, so I met them with the car, and realized that the address for the medical facility was in the Hyatt Hotel, located immediately next door to our Maui Marriott in the Kaanapali Resort area. After striking up an Egyptian conversation with the Physician who had been to Egypt, Mary Etta was treated, and prescribed some medication that we easily secured at a local Walgreen’s. While the Browns hibernated in their 12th floor hotel room, the other three of us went on an excursion to the south end of Maui. Lorita had read of the display of a spectacular piece of glass artwork currently located in the Waldorf Astoria Wailea Grand Hotel. So we drove to the village of Kihei on our way to the hotel. We stopped by the very old Maui Lu resort hotel in Kihei, where we stayed on our very first visit to Hawaii with John and Krista in 1988. We had planned to celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary with the trip, although it turned out to be a 21st year celebration with a family trip to the four main islands of Hawaii. After lunch in Kihei, we located the very upscale Waldorf Astoria Hotel, and Lorita and Cynthia visited the art gallery and took several pictures of the colorful glass sculpture. After returning to the town of Lahaina, we spent the evening walking the length of Front Street with its many boutiques, art galleries and restaurants. We found an eatery named “Cool Cats” and enjoyed our dinner in an upstairs, open-air setting overlooking the huge Banyan tree that is the primary landmark of this former whaling town.