We had a really busy day today visiting a sugar museum, water fall and a working plantation where the family went zip lining.  The result of all this is that I have around 500 pictures to sift through and it will take too long to find a good image, process it and post it to the site.  As a result I’m posting another “view from our hotel” image, that I took last night.

This one was taken just after the sun set from in front of the spa.  In the center of the image you can see a decorative pond with fountains and beyond that some dolphin statues – you’ll probably have to trust me on that one as they are quite small in the image.  Either side are some lit up gazebo’s that lead you down to the adult’s 18 and over pool.  Now I’d definitely like to spend some time there, but apparently that’s not the “thing” to do on a family vacation. so I’m not allowed.

Beyond the adult pool are some palm trees, duh yeah I know we’re in Hawaii.  And then there’s the sea.  Outside of this picture to the left of the adult pool is the family pool with 3 major slides, a rapids drop and a lazy river.  Oh yeah and a rope swing and water elevator.  Yup you read that correctly, a water elevator, apparently the only one in the world.  You swim in and they pump water in and you float on seats to the top of the elevator shaft, then you swim out and go down a slide – nice eh?

The sky in this image came out well and the lights around the gazebo’s made them look pretty cool too.  Add to this the lights on the fountains and you end up with a pretty picture.  And yes, Maui really is this beautiful.

It was really hot today the Carter and Master Chief started to over heat.  So when we got back to our room they found a way to cool off.