Hawaii - Day 4

We woke up to room service bring us coffee and fruit platters. We also realized that with our room upgrade we got bathrobes...bonus! While we were enjoying our breakfast on the balcony I look up and see whales breaching and playing in the water off the coast of Maui...double bonus! This is the way to start a cruise...wow. Once we got to the dock, we did our first excursion, snorkeling at the Molokini Crater. We took a catameran our to this sunken crater that is one of the top 10 snorkling sites in the world. As soon as we started our bumpy ride out we saw more whales and had to stop so they could pass us. It was all surreal until Heidi and I, along with a few others on the boat realized how rocky the ride was actually getting. Long story short there were lots of pukers, we were one of them but we definitely were in the fetal position and looking for dramamine like crack addicts. Once we got to the crater opted to just dive in the water and it was the best cure for sure! The highlight of this trip was that my aunt doesn't swim, never has been in over her head in fact. Well Heidi has a way with these things and somehow convinced my aunt that she could do it. She hooked her up with a life jacket bubble, two noodles and all the snorkeling gear and she took her all over the place in a tandem snorkel. For someone who has been afraid of water their whole like you have no idea what an accomplishment and life moment this was for her. We were so proud and snorkeling as a group made it that much special. After we were done at Molokini we went to this other place to snorkel with the sea turtles. As we were approaching the site the little guys would swim by and say hi I swear. So stinking cute. Lunch and open bar on the way back to the shore was awesome and this was definitely one of the best excursions we did. A top 10 experience. We do have pictures somewhere of Auntie snorkeling but they are on someone else's camera. Here is a look at us waking up that morning on the balcony and then all dolled up for dinner. :)