Today is the 200th day of the year and I’m still posting a new picture every day, can you believe it?  No neither can I!  All I can say is, don’t expect a picture on January 1st 2013 – I’m retiring from this picture a day nonsense.  That said, here’s today’s posting…

Now those of you who have visited the state of Hawaii will probably know that the Humuhumunukunukuapua’a is the state fish!  Yeah I didn’t know that states had a fish either.  But it also happens to be the name of the main restaurant at the Grand Wailea Resort and Hotel in Maui.

I promised the other day that I’d post some hotel pictures, because in truth this place we are staying at is absolutely beautiful.  So this evening after dinner I walked around the hotel taking some pictures.  The Humuhumunukunukuapua’a restaurant sits on a salt water lagoon and overlooks the sea.  The restaurant area is basically a number of thatched roofed buildings on stilts sitting on the lagoon and all around the restaurant are tiki torches lighting up the lagoon and leading you to and from the hotel and sea.

We haven’t actually eaten here as the prices are pretty high and the kids just wouldn’t enjoy it, so we tend to eat off the hotel’s property in restaurants around the area.  But we walked past the restaurant and I just had to take a picture, and it came out (I think) really well.

Lisa was concerned that it was too dark as the sun had well and truly set – it was completely dark, only the tiki torches and the lights from the hotel let you see what was around.  But a long exposure brought out the blue night sky and the water reflection of the trees.  You can even see the remains of the sunset in the far distance.

I took some other shots of the hotel that I’ll post in the coming days, and I’m sure when you see these you are gonna wanna stay here too.

This afternoon Carter and Master Chief decided to have a chat, at the bottom of the pool.  Very cool having a helmet with air in it all the time!