June 27: Day 1

Got up early today so that we could get to Logan to catch our 7:50 flight. It was definitely a smart plan to take two days to decompress after the wedding before heading to Hawai’i. All the excitement finally caught up with me yesterday and I started to not feel well. After downing some airborne and popping a few dayquils, I feel OK today.The same day we bought our plane tickets in March I submitted for us to have a one-way upgrade to first class. On the day of the wedding our upgrade finally cleared. First class was decent for the 2+ hour trip from Logan to Chicago. It was beyond nice for our 9+ hour trip to Maui. Especially after not feeling great on Monday our upgrade minimized the hassles of a plane ride. We had mimosas all morning and red wine all afternoon.
We got to Kahului (Liz and I later decided to call this “Airport Town” because we weren’t sure how to pronounce it) around 3PM and picked up our car and headed Huelo where we would be staying for the first four nights of our trip. Huelo is less a town than it is a street off of the infamous Hana Highway. For a while we were stuck in traffic, but that quickly cleared and we arrived at our house on the Pali Uli estate at around 4:30. The house is beyond nice. It sits on the edge of a cliff with a view down the canyon of the pacific. From each of our three porches we could see a spectacular 200 foot waterfall which could only be accessed from within the estate. Our house had a detached bedroom and a private pool along with a hot tub at the edge of one of the cliff-side porches. It truly was paradise. The shower was outdoors in the rainforest and geckos and huge friendly frogs hanged out every time we used it.After the very long day of traveling we went to the nearby (25 mins away is nearby in remote northern maui) hippy town of Paia and picked up a pizza and brought it back to the house. We ate it, turned on some music, and with the 6 hour time change working against us, fell asleep at an obscenely early hour.