Maui

We decided a few months ago to go to Maui to celebrate our 35^th wedding anniversary. We lined up a teenage girl at the campground here at Nellis AFB to watch our cat Shasta while we were gone. That worked out well for us, because Shasta hates going to the kennel.

We flew out of Las Vegas last Thursday at 6AM and arrived in Maui around 11:30AM. Maui is three hours earlier than Pacific time. We invited friends and family to join us and my sister Janet and her partner Nancy from Sacramento joined us. We waited an hour for them to arrive on their flight. Then we drove to our condo at Honua Kai Resort & Spa on the west side of the island.  

On Sunday, our anniversary, we went on a nice snorkeling trip to Molokini and Turtle Town. The water was warm and the fish we saw were amazing.

We went to the Hula Grill for our anniversary dinner and the seafood was fantastic.

Nancy and Janet flew home Monday morning, but Julie and I were on a 10:30PM “red-eye” flight back to San Francisco and then home to Las Vegas. On the way to the airport we stopped for a traditional Hawaiian mixed plate lunch. After lunch we stopped in Lahaina, at the best place for shaved ice on Maui, Ululani Shaved Ice.

 

The trip home was brutal, but we're fine now after catching up on our lost sleep from Monday night.

Steve & Julie Cornelius

Living in Las Vegas

We’ve been in Las Vegas two weeks today. We dropped our Ford F-150 off at the body shop on Monday, October 3^rd to get the hail damage fixed and it should be finished by the end of October. I went by to check on it this past Monday.

My sister Marcia and brother-in-law Mike spent a week with us here in Las Vegas. We got out and about some. We went to the National Mob Museum, downtown in the old post office building, and it is well worth a visit. We saw Jerry Lewis perform, talk about his career, and show film clips. He is 90 now and we enjoyed his show.

We researched the various buffets in town and the Bacchanal at Cesar’s Palace got the best reviews. We went with Mike & Marcia on a Tuesday afternoon and the food was very, very good. Afterwards, we walked to over to Bellagio’s to see Chihuly’s glass sculptures, the Conservatory decorated in fall colors, and the outside fountains.

 

On Thursday we went with Mike & Marcia to see the group Heart perform at the House of Blues. It was our first time seeing them in concert and we thoroughly enjoyed it. Mike & Marcia left last Friday, heading home to Virginia. They had planned to stop in Phoenix and Houston on the way to visit friends and family.

 

One of our favorite places to go for breakfast here in Las Vegas is Hash House A Go Go. They are well known for their egg benedicts with pork or chicken tenderloin but I tried the blueberry pancakes, with eggs and crispy bacon, on our last visit.

Julie and I are looking forward to seeing the Moody Blues perform at the Venetian on Friday night.

Steve & Julie Cornelius