I am so not going to “live blog” our vacation.  Well, maybe just a tidbit to satisfy our one groupie.  But it’s not “live.”

So here’s the summary of our day:

We dragged the children out of bed at 6:15am this morning, drove up to San Francisco Int’l Airport, and at 8:00 am boarded an airplane headed to Maui.

The children did well, considering; had a few moments of crying and fussing, but the younger three napped, and my laptop lasted over 4 hours playing a Curious George DVD for my oldest.

We arrived just after 11am local time (read: 2pm pacific), had lunch at Da Kitchen near the airport, swung by Costco for some supplies, then drove 40 minutes to our condo in Kahana, where we’ll be staying through Sunday.

After unpacking a bit and decompressing for a few moments, we walked around the neighborhood for a few minutes… to discover that our two middle children were paralyzed to the point of tears in fright at being near the edge of the ocean (we passed by and attempted to have them walk on a very small beach area by the road).  Hopefully, future efforts this week will be met with better success.

We then returned to our condo complex, and went to the otherwise vacant swimming pool, where the boys had a blast with me   After a half hour at the pool, we went to dinner at Aloha Mixed Plate in Lahaina, swung by a Safeway across the street for an item or two, then retreated to our condo at 7:40pm (10:40p pacific, which is 2 hours past the children’s normal bedtime), and put them down over the past hour or so.  Hopefully that helps to transition them to this time zone.

Exciting.  Vacationing with four children under 6 years old is a challenge… but I’d rather parent in Maui than back home. =-)  All four kids are piled into one room with two twin beds: the girls sharing one, our oldest sleeping on a makeshift bed on the floor, and the other son on a twin.  They’re out cold as I type

Okay, that’s it,  groupie.  No more after this. =-)  Just pray my sore throat doesn’t get any worse than it is right now, so we can fully enjoy our vacation.