The third week in January did not differ from our special treatment month of anniversaries.
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The set up for a wedding reception at the Hyatt has the Cirque Du Soliel wheel rider practicing. Now that's some wedding entertainment |
Along our Airport Beach walk there was a monk seal laying on the beach. A 50 yard by 50 yard area was marker off for the monk seal so the public would not bother the seal. They are very dangerous and almost extinct
That evening we went to Merriman's. One of the fanciest restaurants on Maui. The executive chef and a part owner of Hula Grill is Peter Merriman, and he also exec. chef and owner of Merriman's restaurant on Kapalua Beach as well. (He also just opened Monkey Pod a year ago, but we'll get to that...). Jon had won a $50 gift certificate to Merriman's through a raffle at his work.
- An example of the beautiful Aloha and caring nature our employers have, an employee at Pineapple Grill had broken his leg from an accident while on his motorcycle/scooter and he did not have health insurance and was struggling. The restaurant decided to help him out by doing a raffle for visitors and employees to partake in. Jon wins every time there's a raflle or game. He's one of those that is ruthlessly lucky when it comes to those kind of things.
Because Peter Merriman is Hula Grill's executive chef, Hula Grill employees get a 50% discount at his restaurant. So a half off discount with a $50 gift certificate, we went all out. The wine was $50 on it's own (and that's considered kinda cheap for a bottle at a restaurant). Even though we had walked all day... we like walking. So we walked to dinner as well. Just a short trek away. And we wanted to be responsible since wine would be included.
White chocolate Malasadas!! "Happy Anniversary" |
Our view. It's a better view when the sun is out. But it overlooks the ocean. Later in the evening this lanai becomes the wine bar |
Fire pit surrounded by chairs. This is the wine bar. Sit by a bond fire and drink wine, sounds like my kind of thing |
Trying to see if the flash will reach palm tree leaves above. It did not.. |
Walk home. Did I mention wine was involved... :D |

Four that came and went |
And these two. This is reality |
And this is my interpretation |
Then we went to Hula Grill in the fine dinning room to have our last celebratory dinner. When an employee has completely one year of work at Hula Grill, they are rewarded with a $100 gift certificate to the restaurant. I had that anniversary a few days before our outing, perfect timing :)
More occurred in January than just our anniversary celebrations. One was a photo shoot with my girl friend Kristin for Karamel Collection, photographed by another girl friend Cassidy.
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Some post-shoot one-on-one time with honus (turtles) |
More to come...
Maui No Ka Oi
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