Slow Start

Our trip to Maui got off to a slow start. We were scheduled to arrive late afternoon, but finally arrived at our hotel exactly eleven hours later! That made for a long day of waiting around in the airport and then the long flight on top of that. We tried to keep ourselves entertained and keep our cool as we heard excuse after excuse for delays. At first, it all seemed part of the adventure but as the hours drug on that began to wear off. The list of the reasons started out with the announcement that the plane didn’t pass the mechanical testing…fine, we don’t want to fly on that plane then anyway. Next came the announcement of a plane being brought from Cancun and as soon as it gets here we will get you on your way. (That was the closest plane that was equipped to fly over water.) After that the list gets less and less exciting from there: 1. As soon as we get it through the mechanical tests; 2. Because the plane came from Mexico there are more security and immigration sweeps it has to pass; 3. Standoff with the old crew who won’t release the plane by doing their paper work because if they do they won’t have enough hours; 4. We have to wait for a new crew because by the time this crew gets to Maui they will be past the hours they are allowed to fly; 5. All the crew is here except for the captain…Needless to say there were plenty of angry passengers and embarrassed employees by the time we finally took off.
We tried to pass some of the time away by watching Netflix

Our first look at Maui