This morning I checked out of my lovely room at the Westin and proceeded down to the beach for my surf lesson. The guy teaching us kind of reminded me of chicken in the movie Surfs Up, and he seemed like a walking stereotype. He also had his little daughter Madison there who was already showing us all up. We were told how to lean and how to stand up on the board before we went and got into the water. We paddled out to the surf, I only made it about half way befo...

Today we got up bright and early and went for a site inspection at the Westin Hotel, totally different to the Westin Kaanapali Villas we had been staying in. This place had some amazing views and real flamingos in the fountains! We had breakfast there which was buffet style and I had Eggs benadict and waffles, I'd never tried waffles. After the site inspection we got to go to Lahaina town for some free time. I did a bit of shopping, presents for other people mos...

Ground Hog Day!Today I went to work at my leadership training day, which seemed to go on forever, as work frequently does when you are going on holiday the next day.I hurried home and finished the last of my packing and then headed to the airport the taxi ride seemed to go forever and there was a lot of traffic.I got to the airport and met my group, went through duty free and boarded my Hawaiian arilines flight to Honolulu. The flight seemed to go on forever and ...