Wow, two posts in one day! Must mean we need to catch up.... Our adventure continues on Wednesday, our last full day in Maui, where we "tried" to go snorkeling for turtles and ended up watching a magic show.
Wednesday started off as a slower chill day after recovering from the longer days before. We had heard there was a great spot for snorkeling near the condo we were staying. The only issue was that it was kind of in its own secluded area so we would need to swim there from our beach. Laura had gone out to buy a snorkel before and she had brought hers from home so we had two snorkel sets. However, the only fins we had were a set that came with the condo and they could only fit me. There was also a boogie board with the condo so we decided to take that along too.
We traveled down to the beach and started heading out to the place where the turtles were supposed to be. It actually took us a fair amount of time to get there. Laura was on the boogie board and I had the fins. As we got closer to the cove area, the current started us bringing in closer to shore. By the time we reached the cove, we were still looking down at the reef below us but we were so shallow that we got caught in a wave of waves crashing down on us! Sadly to say, Laura was thrown around by the waves and ended up cutting her foot pretty badly. A small chunk of the bottom of her foot had come off when she hit the coral and it started bleeding a bunch. So, we saw some other swimmers who were getting out of the water at these rocks nearby. She got on the boogie board and I used the fins to paddle us towards shore. At this point, we were still kind of looking for turtles but never ended up seeing any. We got to shore and then had to trek it back to our condo. It was slow going but eventually we made it and made sure to treat the cut and bandage it up. It's still healing to this day!
For the evening, we had a magic show scheduled since we had heard good things (Warren & Annabelle's) about it. We got there and had to wait a little for everyone to check in. At the very beginning they took a small group of us and put us in this room where "Annabelle" gave us "clues" for how to get out of the room. Laura figured it out before anyone else! Then we went into a cocktail room with a piano and full bar. We had ordered this package where we got an appetizer sampler, two drinks, and a dessert for like $35. Somewhat overpriced, but we were still glad we did it (we had hot dogs beforehand to fill us up!). Towards the end of the two hour cocktail "hour", the "ghost" Annabelle played some songs on the piano. I had thought it would have been a little more impressive from the way they talked it up online but that part wasn't as impressive as I thought it would be. The food/drinks were pretty good though.
After the cocktail portion, we headed into the magic show. Before the show, some guy had come up to us and asked us some questions about where we were from and whether we were newlyweds, etc.. He asked us whether or not we would want to "help" Warren in his magic show. He said we wouldn't have to stand up or anything so we agreed. When we went into the show, we ended up being sitted in the first row seats in front of everyone so it was kind of cool! The magic show was really good. It was almost all sleight-of-hand but it was very well done and all throughout Warren was cracking jokes. Although many of the jokes came at the expense of some people (ourselves included!), it was very funny and very entertaining. We would definitely recommend the show!
Wednesday started off as a slower chill day after recovering from the longer days before. We had heard there was a great spot for snorkeling near the condo we were staying. The only issue was that it was kind of in its own secluded area so we would need to swim there from our beach. Laura had gone out to buy a snorkel before and she had brought hers from home so we had two snorkel sets. However, the only fins we had were a set that came with the condo and they could only fit me. There was also a boogie board with the condo so we decided to take that along too.
We traveled down to the beach and started heading out to the place where the turtles were supposed to be. It actually took us a fair amount of time to get there. Laura was on the boogie board and I had the fins. As we got closer to the cove area, the current started us bringing in closer to shore. By the time we reached the cove, we were still looking down at the reef below us but we were so shallow that we got caught in a wave of waves crashing down on us! Sadly to say, Laura was thrown around by the waves and ended up cutting her foot pretty badly. A small chunk of the bottom of her foot had come off when she hit the coral and it started bleeding a bunch. So, we saw some other swimmers who were getting out of the water at these rocks nearby. She got on the boogie board and I used the fins to paddle us towards shore. At this point, we were still kind of looking for turtles but never ended up seeing any. We got to shore and then had to trek it back to our condo. It was slow going but eventually we made it and made sure to treat the cut and bandage it up. It's still healing to this day!
For the evening, we had a magic show scheduled since we had heard good things (Warren & Annabelle's) about it. We got there and had to wait a little for everyone to check in. At the very beginning they took a small group of us and put us in this room where "Annabelle" gave us "clues" for how to get out of the room. Laura figured it out before anyone else! Then we went into a cocktail room with a piano and full bar. We had ordered this package where we got an appetizer sampler, two drinks, and a dessert for like $35. Somewhat overpriced, but we were still glad we did it (we had hot dogs beforehand to fill us up!). Towards the end of the two hour cocktail "hour", the "ghost" Annabelle played some songs on the piano. I had thought it would have been a little more impressive from the way they talked it up online but that part wasn't as impressive as I thought it would be. The food/drinks were pretty good though.
After the cocktail portion, we headed into the magic show. Before the show, some guy had come up to us and asked us some questions about where we were from and whether we were newlyweds, etc.. He asked us whether or not we would want to "help" Warren in his magic show. He said we wouldn't have to stand up or anything so we agreed. When we went into the show, we ended up being sitted in the first row seats in front of everyone so it was kind of cool! The magic show was really good. It was almost all sleight-of-hand but it was very well done and all throughout Warren was cracking jokes. Although many of the jokes came at the expense of some people (ourselves included!), it was very funny and very entertaining. We would definitely recommend the show!
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