maui day 3

tuesday morning after another delicious breakfast, all of the verizon people walked down to the "polo lawn" near the beach. it was team building day!! the winners were required to be there and guests were requested to attend. all we did was watch and enjoy the fun! the entry fee was 2 food items for the maui food drive. over 400 items gained in all!

the task of the day was to be split into groups. each groups was given two tubes and a bag full of pvc pipe. the goal: built a steady raft that could transport 3 team members around a buoy in the ocean, twice. of course, it had to be fast. this was a race of course. once the raft was built, a canvas sign had to be painted with a logo and the team had to make a "sales pitch" for selling their craft. it was hilarious!

michael noticing me with the camera as he stands watching his teammates build...

michael trying to look like he's doing something since he noticed me with the camera...

orange crush team captain keith making their sales pitch.

blue team: "verizon blue sailing for you"

the yellow team who didn't follow directions and rented kayak to help build their raft. what made it best? they tipped over and ended up getting last place in the competition. :)

michael's team was the orange team who named themselves orange crush. compared to a few of the other teams, orange seemed to just be standing around alot. they did get their raft built and ended up doing quite well in the race. in the first heat, michael was one of the rowers. for the overall scoring, orange didn't make the top three. it was still fun though.

ready...

set...

go!!

one really fun thing for me was that i didn't wear any sunscreen out that morning. we were out there a couple of hours and i had the weirdest t-shirt, shorts, flip flops tan lines. sunburn lines actually. it's the first time my feet have ever been sunburned. uh...not cool.

after team building, we were provided with a great lunch of burgers, salads, fruit and swordfish. i had the best lemonade ever! yummy!

michael and i snorkeled that afternoon in the ocean outside the resort. i couldn't really snorkel. that breathing underwater thing freaked me out a little bit. instead, i used the goggles and flippers and swam under a little. we didn't see a thing. we washed off and headed to the pool for about an hour.

then...it was luau time! we got dressed and were shuttled over to the grand wailea hotel. we had some time of mingling and talking while servers walked around with trays of mai tais. i, of course, did not have one.

the mingling...

dean (from houston) and his mother michelen (from southern france). they were wonderful to get to know!

a picture of us where you cant' really see us. the point is the amazing sunset.

the food was great. the show was great. those girls can really move! i'd be exhausted after performing like that. i mean, no wonder they can usually stay so skinny! they also did some tahitian dancing which was very similar to the hula but mostly faster. the best part was when they pulled members from the audience to dance with them. hiro from tokyo was, by far, the best!

all in all, day 3 in maui and experiencing my first luau was top notch. all except the sunburned feet anyway...