Lead up to a great adventure

Five days from right now, Pat and I should be pulling our rental car (hopefully the Ford Fusion we reserved and paid for in advance) into Hale Maui, a family-run apartment hotel.  It's 10:30 p.m. in Michigan, 4:30 p.m. in Lahaina.  This beginning post is just to start to learn how to use Blogger so that I can keep family and friends up to date on our travels, and also have a record of our trip.  This one is a big deal for us.  We're celebrating our 30th wedding anniversary (actually July 18th) a couple of months early.  We like to be in Grand Marais, Michigan in July, and usually spend our anniversary week and a second week there.  

So, off to Hawaii!  I haven't been there for 35 years, and Pat has yet to discover this tropical paradise.  We plan to spend eight nights each on Maui, Hawaii, and Kauai (the only island I've visited other than Oahu, which we're skipping on this trip).  We leave April 26th, and arrive home May 21st.  Almost a month is paradise.  And the first time in our 30 years together that we've flown anywhere alone on vacation!  Yes, we're excited!!